Users YouTube

Users - YouTube

• API documentation
• Notes
• Definitions
• Display Selected YouTube Channels
• Display Owned YouTube Channels

API documentation

• https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels/list

Notes

To use these commands you must add the 'YouTube API' to your project and update your service account authorization.

gam update project
gam user [email protected] update serviceaccount

Definitions

• <UserTypeEntity>

<YouTubeChannelID> ::= <String>
<YouTubeChannelIDList> ::= "<YouTubeChannelID>(,<YouTubeChannelID>)*"

<YouTubeChannelFieldName> ::=
        brandingsettings|
        contentdetails|
        contentownerdetails|
        id|
        localizations|
        snippet|
        statistics|
        status|
        topicdetails
<YouTubeChannelFieldNameList> ::= "<YouTubeChannelFieldName>(,<YouTubeChannelFieldName>)*"

Display Selected YouTube Channels

Display YouTube channels selected by ID.

gam <UserTypeEntity> show youtubechannels
        channels <YouTubeChannelIDList>
        [allfields|(fields <YouTubeChannelFieldNameList>)]
        [formatjson]

By default, only the YouTube channel ID is displayed; use allfields|fields to selct additional fields for display.

By default, Gam displays the YouTube channels as an indented list of keys and values.

• formatjson - Display the YouTube channels in JSON format

gam <UserTypeEntity> print youtubechannels [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*]
        [channels <YouTubeChannelIDList>]
        [allfields|(fields <YouTubeChannelFieldNameList>)]
        [formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]

By default, only the YouTube channel ID is displayed; use allfields|fields to selct additional fields for display.

By default, Gam displays the information as columns of fields; the following option causes the output to be in JSON format,

• formatjson - Display the fields in JSON format.

By default, when writing CSV files, Gam uses a quote character of double quote ". The quote character is used to enclose columns that contain the quote character itself, the column delimiter (comma by default) and new-line characters. Any quote characters within the column are doubled. When using the formatjson option, double quotes are used extensively in the data resulting in hard to read/proces output. The quotechar <Character> option allows you to choose an alternate quote character, single quote for instance, that makes for readable/procesable output. quotechar defaults to gam.cfg/csv_output_quote_char. When uploading CSV files to Google, double quote " should be used.

Display Owned YouTube Channels

Display YouTube channels owned by a user.

gam <UserTypeEntity> show youtubechannels
        [allfields|(fields <YouTubeChannelFieldNameList>)]
        [formatjson]

By default, only the YouTube channel ID is displayed; use allfields|fields to selct additional fields for display.

By default, Gam displays the YouTube channels as an indented list of keys and values.

• formatjson - Display the YouTube channels in JSON format

gam <UserTypeEntity> print youtubechannels [todrive <ToDriveAttribute>*]
        [allfields|(fields <YouTubeChannelFieldNameList>)]
        [formatjson [quotechar <Character>]]

By default, only the YouTube channel ID is displayed; use allfields|fields to selct additional fields for display.

By default, Gam displays the information as columns of fields; the following option causes the output to be in JSON format,

• formatjson - Display the fields in JSON format.

By default, when writing CSV files, Gam uses a quote character of double quote ". The quote character is used to enclose columns that contain the quote character itself, the column delimiter (comma by default) and new-line characters. Any quote characters within the column are doubled. When using the formatjson option, double quotes are used extensively in the data resulting in hard to read/proces output. The quotechar <Character> option allows you to choose an alternate quote character, single quote for instance, that makes for readable/procesable output. quotechar defaults to gam.cfg/csv_output_quote_char. When uploading CSV files to Google, double quote " should be used.