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Python Youtube Data API V3 Example to Search Videos and Save it as JSON File For FREE
Jun 3, 2025
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uh hello guys uh welcome to this video
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So in this video I will show you a uh
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Python package which actually returns
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you the YouTube videos in a JSON
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response So if you wanted to actually
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search YouTube videos this will be a
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great package for you So it actually
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searches the YouTube here based upon a
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specific keyword Here you will see I
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have written coding section and it will
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return the videos in the form of JSON
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Let's see that
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So you can basically change this keyword
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Let's suppose I say free media tools Let
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me search my YouTube videos And as I run
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this Python script what you will
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see the search results are being saved
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as at YouTube search results So it will
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create this file here YouTube search
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results And you will actually see three
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videos will be returned to you This uh
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data is coming from YouTube data API You
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see the video ID you see the title of
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the video you see the actual thumbnail
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and the title of the video Same goes
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with the second video You get all this
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information using this free package of
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Python And for this you don't require
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any sort of API key As you can see we
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haven't used the YouTube data API API
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key So you can use it for unlimited
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number of time and to actually query the
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YouTube data API So let me show you the
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module here If you go to
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the just search for this
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package So this is actually a python
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package The command is very simple pip
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install py- YouTube So just go to your
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command line and just execute this
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command pip install py YouTube and just
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install this package This will take
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hardly 5 seconds to install And as you
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can see in the documentation they have
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given how to use this So now let me show
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you how to use it So first of all at the
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very top we first of all require this
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package py YouTube and from this we need
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to
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import the search package which will
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actually search a particular YouTube
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video and also we will be storing it as
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a JSON response We will also be
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importing the built-in JSON module and
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then we will initialize the search uh
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method and here you will specify
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whatever keyword that you want to search
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Let's suppose I want to search videos
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about Python programming and then we can
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even pass a limit as well right here how
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many videos you want to return So here
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we can also pass the limit So I'll say
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that I want to see at five videos about
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Python programming from YouTube and we
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will simply say dot videos So this is
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actually the function And now if I print
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this right here this will actually
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return me the JSON response If I execute
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this Python script here you will see
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that all this JSON response is returned
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to us array of object Each object is
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containing about the title thumbnail
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everything is about containing the video
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So now we can store this response which
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is coming to a JSON file here For this
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we will simply say with open and we say
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output dojson So we'll store
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this in the right
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mode and then we can even provide a
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encoding and we can simply dump this uh
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in a JSON file here like this You'll see
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that JSON dump videos
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So then we can simply show a simple
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notification that your data has been
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saved to this file So now what happens
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here if you see if you execute the
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script right here python app py you will
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see it will
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create this
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uh YouTube search results.json file and
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you will see it will contain videos
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about Python It actually comes with the
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ID of the video then the title Then we
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have also get the thumbnail Again you
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will see you can open this thumbnail You
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can see it is showing a live preview
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This is a first video This is a second
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video We have the third
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video So in this way guys you can query
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the YouTube data API with this free py
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python module You don't require any sort
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of API key and you install this module
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and simply use it And here you can
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change it Let's suppose PHP I change
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this limit to 10 videos So now what
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happens if you see if I again run
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this So now if you see now it is saying
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the PHP So you can
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see in this easy way you can construct
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any sort of YouTube searching video kind
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of an application or build an API
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because it is giving you the JSON
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response like this You can build any
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sort of application It can be mobile web
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application with this JSON data which is
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coming right here It's completely free
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We haven't used any API key for this So
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this is a free package You can install
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it and use it And thank you very much
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for watching this video And also check
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out my website which is
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