YouTube Oddities · mattwright324/youtube-metadata Wiki · GitHub
That is my place to doc issues I’ve discovered about YouTube and it is API. The examples for a few of these could not final without end.
Usually these are usually not ‘points’ however simply how YouTube and the API work.
Resulting from these oddities along with the conduct of non-oddities I’d suggest to not belief any area of the API to 100% be out there or as you anticipate.
At all times deal with the case as if one thing did not come again even if you anticipate it to.
Feedback lacking channel data
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aWAod8ZmAuc&lc=Ugy9fRFjedh7r5c1lZJ4AaABAg
The channel appears to be like clean on the webpage and the API returns no data for it both: clean authorDisplayName, clean authorChannelUrl, and the default authorProfileImageUrl.
{
"form": "youtube#remark",
"etag": "Bs_q22LbPeL3w2zGepNLVIBvzD8",
"id": "Ugy9fRFjedh7r5c1lZJ4AaABAg",
"snippet": {
"textDisplay": "Look it's work...thanks !",
"textOriginal": "Look it's work...thanks !",
"authorDisplayName": "",
"authorProfileImageUrl": "https://yt3.ggpht.com/a/default-user=s48",
"authorChannelUrl": "",
"canRate": true,
"viewerRating": "none",
"likeCount": 0,
"publishedAt": "2018-04-11T15:02:51Z",
"updatedAt": "2018-04-11T15:02:51Z"
}
}
Channels with extraordinarily lengthy names
The restrict for channel titles as of as we speak is 30 characters or perhaps even 50. Nonetheless, this restrict may be damaged by modifying client side validation in one of YouTube’s features.
https://www.youtube.com/channel/UChLNLQ6r-aGrIFWo_1A9tKQ (383 characters)
{
"title": "JACKSEPICYOUTUBECHANNELFULLOFFUNTIMESANDFUNHIRICKXHASNOTHINGONMEIAMTHESUPERIORCHANNELIHAVEMORECHARACTERSTHANALLOFJACKSYOUTUBECHANNELSCOMBINEDHAHAHAHAIHAVEMORECHARACTERSTHANJACKSUCKSATLIFEJACKSUCKSATSTUFFJACKMASSEYWELSHJACKSUCKSATGEOGRAPHYJACKSUCKSATCLIPSSAMSMELLSOFAPRICOTSJACKSUCKSATPOPUPPIRATEETCETCIMAGINETHISONAPLAYBUTTONJESUSCHRISTBTWPLEASESUBSCRIBETHANKYOUVERYMUCHHIRICKXxXxXX",
"description": "hey guys suscribe",
"publishedAt": "2021-07-10T15:13:12.443555Z",
"nation": "GB"
}
Different examples utilizing this similar trick
Video with out a title
Not sure how that is performed, a video can haven’t any title in any respect. It isn’t a Zero-width space which you’ll be able to presently use as a title, that is simply clean.
{
"publishedAt": "2010-04-26T13:28:59Z",
"channelId": "UC2VVIGlxmkQ5hMu-MouLiJw",
"title": "",
"description": " "
}
Video with 249 allowed international locations
Sometimes video area restrictions could have some listed in both allowed or blocked. 249 is the present complete nation depend and is equal to ‘worldwide’.
Nonetheless, it’s doable for 249 international locations to seem within the allowed listing. It isn’t clear why this occurs as it’s the similar has having no restriction in any respect. It appears to happen most incessantly with music movies, probably they’d precise blocks at one level and the one method it may be undone is to maneuver all the pieces to allowed?
{
"length": "PT3M33S",
"dimension": "second",
"definition": "hd",
"caption": "false",
"licensedContent": true,
"regionRestriction": {
"allowed": [
"AD", "AE", "AF", "AG", "AI", "AL", "AM", "AO", "AQ", "AR", "AS", "AT", "AU", "AW", "AX",
"AZ", "BA", "BB", "BD", "BE", "BF", "BG", "BH", "BI", "BJ", "BL", "BM", "BN", "BO", "BQ",
"BR", "BS", "BT", "BV", "BW", "BY", "BZ", "CA", "CC", "CD", "CF", "CG", "CH", "CI", "CK",
"CL", "CM", "CN", "CO", "CR", "CU", "CV", "CW", "CX", "CY", "CZ", "DE", "DJ", "DK", "DM",
"DO", "DZ", "EC", "EE", "EG", "EH", "ER", "ES", "ET", "FI", "FJ", "FK", "FM", "FO", "FR",
"GA", "GB", "GD", "GE", "GF", "GG", "GH", "GI", "GL", "GM", "GN", "GP", "GQ", "GR", "GS",
"GT", "GU", "GW", "GY", "HK", "HM", "HN", "HR", "HT", "HU", "ID", "IE", "IL", "IM", "IN",
"IO", "IQ", "IR", "IS", "IT", "JE", "JM", "JO", "JP", "KE", "KG", "KH", "KI", "KM", "KN",
"KP", "KR", "KW", "KY", "KZ", "LA", "LB", "LC", "LI", "LK", "LR", "LS", "LT", "LU", "LV",
"LY", "MA", "MC", "MD", "ME", "MF", "MG", "MH", "MK", "ML", "MM", "MN", "MO", "MP", "MQ",
"MR", "MS", "MT", "MU", "MV", "MW", "MX", "MY", "MZ", "NA", "NC", "NE", "NF", "NG", "NI",
"NL", "NO", "NP", "NR", "NU", "NZ", "OM", "PA", "PE", "PF", "PG", "PH", "PK", "PL", "PM",
"PN", "PR", "PS", "PT", "PW", "PY", "QA", "RE", "RO", "RS", "RU", "RW", "SA", "SB", "SC",
"SD", "SE", "SG", "SH", "SI", "SJ", "SK", "SL", "SM", "SN", "SO", "SR", "SS", "ST", "SV",
"SX", "SY", "SZ", "TC", "TD", "TF", "TG", "TH", "TJ", "TK", "TL", "TM", "TN", "TO", "TR",
"TT", "TV", "TW", "TZ", "UA", "UG", "UM", "US", "UY", "UZ", "VA", "VC", "VE", "VG", "VI",
"VN", "VU", "WF", "WS", "YE", "YT", "ZA", "ZM", "ZW"
]
},
"contentRating": {},
"projection": "rectangular"
}
Previous channel, new channel
Interacting with any video from the outdated channel within the YouTube interface will redirect you again to the brand new one.
The outdated channel identify and reference won’t ever show besides within the API.
Additionally, to get each video within the API as displayed on the brand new channel you would wish each channel ids.
Every channel has its personal set of movies within the API.
Extra from YouTube
On the sidebar YouTube beneath ‘Extra from YouTube’ there are a number of subsections of categorized media. These are ‘channels’ although they aren’t actually channels however they do have channel ids and urls.
Motion pictures & Exhibits
Within the API it’s known as “YouTube Motion pictures” however is displayed as “Motion pictures & Exhibits” in all places else.
{
"publishedAt": "2015-06-10T20:32:27Z",
"channelId": "UClgRkhTL3_hImCAmdLfDE4g",
"title": "YouTube Motion pictures",
"description": "YouTube's motion pictures vacation spot that includes the newest new releases, blockbusters and extra.",
}
Motion pictures & Exhibits has a important channel but additionally has a number of sub channels that redirect again to the principle channel.
There’s a distinctive channelId for what looks as if each film although redirects when visited within the browser.
Every occasion has completely different localized variations of that specific film.
Exhibits nonetheless work in another way than motion pictures. You will get a present’s channelId by querying the videoId of an episode of the present. The channel for these appear to be channels and have the episodes listed within the movies part. Nonetheless, these channels by no means come again within the API.
Present to channel
Exhibits have their very own customized URL sample with a worth that appears like a channelId.
When you remodel the SC... to UC... then it’s readable like regular channelId. Nonetheless, as talked about earlier than, present channels don’t come again within the API.
Subject channels
Many channels for Gaming and Music are made as matter channels.
The title of matter channels finish with ” – Subject” and the about hyperlinks have “Auto generated by YouTube”.
Movies printed by these matter channels (often solely music channels) have feedback disabled and the outline incorporates “Auto generated by YouTube.”
Older movies earlier than they had been pressured to have feedback disabled do have numbers in video.statistics.commentCount however are usually not accessible.
Music subjects:
Gaming subjects:
This video is unavailable on this machine
Additionally…
- We’re processing this video. Test again later.
- This reside stream recording is just not out there.
The precise video is just not playable as a result of it’s too lengthy. You may nonetheless question within the API and look at feedback. It isn’t deleted or made personal.
The almost certainly motive for this video particularly is that it’s over 3 months lengthy or 100 days.
Numerous playlists
There are a ton of various playlist ids codecs for various functions with various levels of performance. This web page paperwork all of it:
https://wiki.archiveteam.org/index.php/YouTube/Technical_details#Playlists
Customized channel partially would not work / further customized channel worth
Typically the /c/ url would not work however the / url does. Normally each urls work for a customized worth and it’s unclear why this occurs. Unknown if it may be damaged the opposite method round.
Nonetheless, this channel truly has a special customized worth in accordance the the YouTube API. When utilizing that worth each url patterns work. It is not clear how the sbtv url was obtained or setup.
Customized channels and particular paths
A quirk with the trail recognition, case sensitivity, and customized channels. So long as it matches the lowercase watch it should work like a traditional video url. Nonetheless, when altering the case of watch to the rest it should resolve to a channel with that customized worth.
New tab with out with out a videoId
One other quirk associated to the watch url, when navigating to those instantly (copy, paste, enter) with out a video id it should redirect to the homepage. Nonetheless, when you center click on to open it as a brand new tab in your browser it should as a substitute present a video with out its id within the url.
The video displayed is unlisted and titled YouTube is just not presently out there on this machine. and its precise url/id is the next:
Its unclear why it does this but it surely appears to be associated to old devices, playlists, and malformed urls.
Channel URL redirect to video as a substitute of channel
Pretty not too long ago spreading factor from YouTube feedback the place somebody tells you to take away the h or c in watch on the present video you’re watching.
The hyperlink then redirects you to a video by 666.
Hypothesis for a way this works beneath:
Unusual channels
Channels that appear to be damaged/glitched in bizarre methods demonstrated by this video.
Channels:
Video that will not play
A really early YouTube video, 2005, that won’t play and at all times provides an error.
Video that was corrupted by YouTube
A really early YouTube video, 2006, that not appears to be like prefer it ought to and reveals washed out altering colour nothing like the unique (which was reuploaded and linked within the feedback).
Video with the very best video id
A video that “received the lottery” in having some of the humorous video ids doable. There are many URLs with phrases or leetspeak phrases in them although some are very significantly better than others.
This video above was discovered on this playlist of humorous, good, and attention-grabbing video ids.
Different shopper video
Typically when utilizing an alternate YouTube shopper, the next video shall be returned as a substitute of the particular video.
The next content material is just not out there on this app. Watch this content material on the newest model of YouTube.
Channels with 1/2 million movies
Roel Van de Paar, at this present time has 2,035,484 movies uploaded.
Data Base, at this present time has 1,054,762 movies uploaded.
Ceaselessly processing
A video which is without end processing (> 12 years)
Greyscale preview
A video the place the preview is in greyscale, when hovering the mouse over the time bar.
Video with all the pieces else hidden
Virtually all parts within the web page are hidden aside from the navbar and the video itself. This specific video was discovered via an entry on Google’s Ads Transparency site.
Nonetheless present thumbnails
The thumbnail of a video deleted greater than 5 years in the past remains to be accessible.
Watchable video, inaccessible channel
There are some unusual circumstances the place movies are nonetheless viewable whereas the channel is terminated or in any other case inaccessible for some motive.
- Channel Google Videos inaccessible for motive
This channel is just not out there. - Channel CYBERXSYSTEMSALGORV1 inaccessible for motive
This account has been terminated on account of a number of or extreme violations of YouTube's coverage in opposition to spam, misleading practices, and deceptive content material or different Phrases of Service violations.
Tremendous-wide facet ratio
Breaks the YouTube UI as a result of the video width is so giant.