Youtube data api v3 not working as expected

Question

I am using search api for youtube :

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list

I get total of 40191 records and per page I have set max 50.

But I get 17 results every time.

These are the options I am using for getting records:

// SET OPTIONS FOR API
$optionsArray = array(
 'q' => $_GET['q'],
 'maxResults' => 50,
 'order' => 'date',
 'type' => 'video'
 );
// Send request
$searchResponse = $youtube->search->listSearch('id, snippet', $optionsArray);

Also setting pageToken doesnt work. Records are same even after applying nextPageToken. Am I missing something here?

• itzmukeshy7: What you are passing to q?
• Shreejibawa: @itzmukeshy7 keyword.
• Sebastian Brosch: exact value of q? Can you show the whole code (with removed API key)?
• Shreejibawa: "hardwell%20singles" is the exact value.

Answer 1

The reason why you get only 17 results is the order property of your request. If you remove this property you get many more results. The order='date' is not working as expected.

A little workaround (only example):

$DEVELOPER_KEY = 'THEKEY';
$client = new Google_Client();
$client->setDeveloperKey($DEVELOPER_KEY);
//Define an object that will be used to make all API requests.
$youtube = new Google_Service_YouTube($client);
try {
 // Call the search.list method to retrieve results matching the specified
 // query term.
 $searchResponse = $youtube->search->listSearch('id,snippet', array(
 'q' => $_GET['q'],
 'maxResults' => $_GET['maxResults'],
 'type' => 'video'
 ));
 function sortResponse($date1, $date2) {
 $date1 = new DateTime($date1['snippet']['publishedAt']);
 $date2 = new DateTime($date2['snippet']['publishedAt']);
 //"<" - sort DESC
 //">" - sort ASC
 return $date1 < $date2;
 }
 $items = $searchResponse['items'];
 usort($items, "sortResponse");
 //now your sorted items are in $items...
}

You can merge all your repsonse items in one array and use the custom sort function to get the order by publishAt.

API Document:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list?hl=de#parameters

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When I use order-date in youtube api then there are total results but items are not found