Re golang YouTube API, I would like to know what calls to perform to make a slate image appear in the middle of a livestream. Reading the API documentation here, it's suggested that the "control" operation is used to achieve this, however, this operation is not supported by the API in the latest version. I did find this functionality in a prior version (v0.3.2); why would this have been removed and what is the replacement ?
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The API behavior you're experiencing is documented officially, as per this excerpt from the official specification of the liveBroadcasts.control API endpoint:
Note: The liveBroadcasts.control method has been deprecated and will stop working on or after 1 October 2020. After that date, all calls to this method will return a forbidden (403) error, and the method will later be completely removed.
Clients can still implement their own slating by adding an overlay to the video sent to YouTube’s ingestion servers. See deprecation announcement.
There's nothing you can do about that, but only to file a feature request directly to Google in the attempt to make the company reinstate the feature that it retracted from the current API.
In my opinion (which is based on the experience of several years of monitoring the SO tags youtube-api, youtube-data-api and youtube-livestreaming-api), waiting for Google to respond to you here on SO is waste of time. Just do what I already recommended you to do in my comments posted under your question above: reach out directly to Google (through the company's official issue tracker site) for to obtain official accounts from the company's staff.
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I made a request to Google to use their Business Profile API, but the response from them can take up to two weeks. Is it possible to have access to a development version of the API so I can start coding and make tests without having to wait for their answer ?
Unfortunately this is not possible, as per this documentation it is a requirement to get approval first.
Sorting videos from a channel over method search.list stopped working for about three days back.
I tried too in Api explorer from google on web:
https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/?hl=en_US#p/youtube/v3/youtube.search.list?part=snippet&channelId=UCPvnjqveFmBfTWBVShPIcZg&maxResults=5&order=rating&_h=10
Can this be solved on my side?
Is there another way to get all the videos from the channel to be returned via api?
This is an issue of Youtube Data API.
Already reported this issue by someone on Google forum and below is reply from Google employee:
https://support.google.com/youtube/thread/2494861?msgid=2520468
YouTube is aware the search/sorting functions aren't working as
expected – this is temporary and part of our efforts to better
respond, review and remove graphic, violative content from YouTube.
Thanks for your patience while we work through this. Will update this
thread when these features are working normally again, feel free to
subscribe for updates.
Also, Bugs are reported for this on issue tracker:
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/128673031
https://issuetracker.google.com/issues/128673552
Both issue have comment from Google employee as below:
Thank you all for bringing this up here. These specific filters have been currently disabled on both YouTube.com and through the APIs.
We should have updates on this soon. Thanks again.
Update on 27/3:
Now it's working normally again, as per threads.
When searching in Yammer it uses an /api/v2/search endpoint like this:
https://www.yammer.com/api/v2/search/models?search=test&start=0&size=20&model_types=threads&_network=xxxxxxx&relevance=DEFAULT
Compared to the v1 search endpoint this returns more data. We need this data. And we successfully tested using this v2 endpoint.
Now the question: Is this v2 search endpoint safe to use? Is it "official"? Maybe somebody from Yammer reads along - on their Help page it says:
We encourage you to post all programming questions to StackOverflow
with a #yammer hashtag
So here we are. Any help is appreciated.
The Yammer v2 search API endpoint is not yet officially supported for third-party use. This is because we anticipate the need to make changes to it as we build it out. There are no plans to lock developers out of experimenting with the v2 search API. However, when developing any important functionality against this API, automated testing should be used to detect any unannounced breaking changes that we make while we continue to build it out.
We use Google APIs Calendar v3 and Google said that they'll discontinuing support for json rpc Discontinuing support for JSON-RPC and Global HTTP Batch Endpoints.
I cant find if they plan a v4 version compliant or if the current version is compliant. Documentation don't reference about it. Java Quickstart
Any information about that?
Its not just Calendar that is effected its all Google APIs discovery APIs that are effected. The batching endpoint
POST /batch HTTP/1.1
Authorization: Bearer your_auth_token
Host: www.googleapis.com
Content-Type: multipart/mixed; boundary=batch_foobarbaz
Content-Length: total_content_length
Will be discontinued around March 25, 2019. That being said i am skeptical that the client libraries have all been updated to remove it already. I am a contributor on two of them and haven't heard anything yet about removing the the batching ability from the libraries.
Google API Client Libraries have been regenerated to no longer make
requests to the global HTTP batch endpoint. Clients using these
libraries must upgrade to the latest version. Clients not using the
Google API Client Libraries and/or making custom calls to the JSON-RPC
endpoint or HTTP batch endpoint will need to make the changes outlined
below.
The global batching endpoint is
www.googleapis.com/batch
the new one is
www.googleapis.com/batch/<api>/<version>
I think the choice of words incorrect here and it they will be regenerated if needed. The change should not effect users with one exception. That being heterogeneous batch requests a single batch request containing more then one API within the call wont work due to the fact that the end point is API specific.
Now for the bad news to my knowledge there is nothing that is going to be replacing it. You will not be able to make heterogeneous batch requests. The Google apis java client library appears to use the old endpoint BatchRequest.java so if you are using heterogeneous batching your going to have to change your code by the time they update the library to support the new API specific endpoint.
Update
After a lot of back and forth with Google over the last 24 hours I have gotten some clarification on that post.
Batching will still work with the client libries
Most of the client libraries appear to already use this endpoint so there should be no change.
You will only be able to call one API within a batch request. Example you cant call drive and calendar API in the same batch request. You will have to make two batch requests one for drive and one for calendar.
There may be some edits coming to that post to clear up the language a little to be more clear.
I have updated my answer to reflect the clarifications from Google
It is not removing batching entirely.
Per the blog they are removing heterogeneous batching - accessing the same API with requests that lead to other APIs. They are also consolidating homogeneous batching (batching to the same API and leading to a singular API) to "API specific batch endpoints".
From my understanding of the blog, if you are batching several different requests, ie. a Foo request and a Bar request into a Foo API call, you will have to adjust your code to use one batch for one and one batch for the other. If you are already doing that, it is unclear whether or not you will have to change your code, perhaps newly released libraries will have a new way to handle these requests.
I want to gather google analytics data for daily/monthly report. All visitors, visitors for specific path and conversion rate. Setting for google analytics is already done (I think).
I searched ruby libraries, but many informations are out-of-dated and google api is sometimes update.
Now(2012-09-28) what library is popular? And How to get data? I searched ruby-toolbox, but both two libraries are still active?
Libralies
'garb'
https://github.com/vigetlabs/garb
'google-api-client'
http://code.google.com/p/google-api-ruby-client/
Purpose:
My first step: view data
My second step: edit data(Add note or notation)
thanks,
Google-Api-Client works fine, is an official client and is constantly updated, just check the commit logs and you will see. Note that this API is not for Google Analytics only but for any Google API that uses the Google Discovery API. You should try that.
Regardless of the client that you use make sure it's compatible with the latest version of the API. If it's built using the Google API Discovery service it's a plus because that means the client library will have support for new methods as soon as they are available. It's like an API for building API clients.
GARB on the other hand seems to be abandoned for a while and is probably missing out on several features that came recently.
Note that the Google Analytics API are currently read only. So no client library will support that since there's no API for writing annotations. There's a feature request for that though.