Youtube API how to get video info

Question

When you right click on the video and say "show video info", there is popup that shows fps, frames dropped etc in real time with a timestamp.

I tried to look in the API documentation but couldn't find how this data could be retrieved.

I would like to store this realtime video info data in a file and do post analysis based on time to understand video streaming quality.

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

You're going to have to use the new v3 API. You can sign up for a YouTube key here: https://console.developers.google.com/apis/api/youtube.googleapis.com

Documentation: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list

To get the actual video info you can then use this URL:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id={VIDEO_ID}&part=snippet%2CcontentDetails%2Cstatistics &key={YOUR_API_KEY}