Get list of videos listed under Events Tab from YouTube

Question

How to get videos which are listed under "Events" tab of YouTube?

Trying to fetch using following:

Youtube Search - Try It !

Answer 1

To search for live events you're going to want to set live as the value for the eventType key and video as the value for the type key.

Your request will look something like this:

HTTP GET: https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?eventType=live&part=id%2C+snippet&type=video&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

Objective-C:

// Set up your URL
NSString *youtubeApi = @"https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?eventType=live&part=id%2C+snippet&type=video&key={YOUR_API_KEY}";
NSURL *url = [[NSURL alloc] initWithString:youtubeApi];

// Create your request
NSURLRequest *request = [NSURLRequest requestWithURL:url];

// Send the request asynchronously
[NSURLConnection sendAsynchronousRequest:request queue:[[NSOperationQueue alloc] init] completionHandler:^(NSURLResponse *response, NSData *data, NSError *connectionError) {

    // Callback, parse the data and check for errors
    if (data && !connectionError) {
        NSError *jsonError;
        NSDictionary *jsonResult = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:data options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&jsonError];

        if (!jsonError) {
            NSLog(@"Response: %@", jsonResult);
        }
    }
}];

Swift:

// Set up your URL
let youtubeApi: String = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?eventType=live&part=id%2C+snippet&type=video&key={YOUR_API_KEY}"
var url: NSURL = NSURL(string: youtubeApi)!

// Create your request
var request: NSURLRequest = NSURLRequest(URL: url)
let queue:NSOperationQueue = NSOperationQueue()

// Send the request asynchronously
NSURLConnection.sendAsynchronousRequest(request, queue: queue, completionHandler:{ (response: NSURLResponse!, data: NSData!, error: NSError!) -> Void in

    // Callback, parse the data and check for errors
    if data != nil && error == nil {
        var err: NSError?
        if let jsonResult: NSDictionary = NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.MutableContainers, error: &err) as? NSDictionary {
            println("Response: \(jsonResult)")
        }
    } else {
        println("Error: \(error)")
    }
})

Response:

{
 "kind": "youtube#searchListResponse",
 "etag": "\"Y3xTLFF3RLtHXX85JBgzzgp2Enw/zpkE9CJT5UE3J3ftgSZ5oGJd9mI\"",
 "nextPageToken": "CAUQAA",
 "pageInfo": {
  "totalResults": 3011,
  "resultsPerPage": 5
 },
 "items": [
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"Y3xTLFF3RLtHXX85JBgzzgp2Enw/eGgYtvB5TXQD0T0QJiElo89I6Sw\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "B9zFbRYW_sk"
   },
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "2015-05-17T02:25:30.000Z",
    "channelId": "UC5BMQOsAB8hKUyHu9KI6yig",
    "title": "[On-Air] KBS World Latino",
    "description": "KBS World Latino ha sido lanzado oficialmente el 1 de noviembre! ¡En este canal, se transmitirán los doramas, shows de música y entreteniemnto más ...",
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B9zFbRYW_sk/default.jpg"
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B9zFbRYW_sk/mqdefault.jpg"
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/B9zFbRYW_sk/hqdefault.jpg"
     }
    },
    "channelTitle": "kbsworld",
    "liveBroadcastContent": "live"
   }
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"Y3xTLFF3RLtHXX85JBgzzgp2Enw/lRgnr-IYRKQ7dpUwvBDfpX0Qz3Q\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "8HxN3ZHMbjc"
   },
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "2015-01-02T05:10:04.000Z",
    "channelId": "UC5BMQOsAB8hKUyHu9KI6yig",
    "title": "[On-Air] KBS World 24",
    "description": "700만 해외동포와 함께 하는 KBS World 24!!! 이제 해외에서도 KBS의 실시간 뉴스를 고화질의 KBS World 24채널로 시청하실 수 있습니다. KBS World 24 채널은...",
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8HxN3ZHMbjc/default.jpg"
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8HxN3ZHMbjc/mqdefault.jpg"
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/8HxN3ZHMbjc/hqdefault.jpg"
     }
    },
    "channelTitle": "kbsworld",
    "liveBroadcastContent": "live"
   }
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"Y3xTLFF3RLtHXX85JBgzzgp2Enw/exCIHag5T6lQhpLHOOPZ9Z63lKs\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "wyMOYHiatos"
   },
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "2015-05-28T13:50:09.000Z",
    "channelId": "UCLA_DiR1FfKNvjuUpBHmylQ",
    "title": "NASA HDTV",
    "description": "NASA TV airs a variety of regularly scheduled, pre-recorded educational and public relations programming 24 hours a day on its various channels. Programs ...",
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wyMOYHiatos/default.jpg"
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wyMOYHiatos/mqdefault.jpg"
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/wyMOYHiatos/hqdefault.jpg"
     }
    },
    "channelTitle": "NASAtelevision",
    "liveBroadcastContent": "live"
   }
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"Y3xTLFF3RLtHXX85JBgzzgp2Enw/C_dxvfEwfJ1mGWVzbJAVSNHvdpk\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "kRonNPz4MJw"
   },
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "2015-04-30T21:07:32.000Z",
    "channelId": "UCzv6uVYjfvE8X-_F3cicWog",
    "title": "إذاعة القرآن الكريم من القاهرة - بث مباشر - Quran Karim",
    "description": "إذاعة القرآن الكريم من القاهرة - بث مباشر - Quran Karim *** هذه الصفحه غير رسميه *** يمكنكم التواصل مع اذاعه القران...",
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kRonNPz4MJw/default.jpg"
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kRonNPz4MJw/mqdefault.jpg"
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/kRonNPz4MJw/hqdefault.jpg"
     }
    },
    "channelTitle": "",
    "liveBroadcastContent": "live"
   }
  },
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"Y3xTLFF3RLtHXX85JBgzzgp2Enw/DJJYpR9kef3SlbZnsbVcmqDp6Qs\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "9SdaRmrVBZ4"
   },
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "2015-04-07T00:15:03.000Z",
    "channelId": "UC8NnosPOvXnm0O1u5YnLQiw",
    "title": "Long-Eared Owl powered by EXPLORE.org",
    "description": "Love Birds Subscribe http://goo.gl/zqy2fE - Watch the Best Moments https://goo.gl/FqdepR Multicam Experience http://goo.gl/PA33mO Facebook ...",
    "thumbnails": {
     "default": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9SdaRmrVBZ4/default.jpg"
     },
     "medium": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9SdaRmrVBZ4/mqdefault.jpg"
     },
     "high": {
      "url": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/9SdaRmrVBZ4/hqdefault.jpg"
     }
    },
    "channelTitle": "",
    "liveBroadcastContent": "live"
   }
  }
 ]
}