I am only getting upload activities from YouTube API, rather than getting other activities e.g. like, recommendation, subscription, favourite

Question

I am using the YouTube API to get the activities of the authenticated user e.g. like, subscription, etc. The API should only return my the items with snippet.type=upload

This is my request call in python:

request = youtube.activities().list(
        part="snippet,contentDetails",
        # channelId=channelId,
        mine=True,
        maxResults=25
    )

Here is the link to the API: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/activities/list

Answer 1

Like you mentioned, (once again) YouTube Data API v3 doesn't work as expected by the documentation.

I think the best way to go is parsing webpages (when logged) like these ones:

• Likes: https://myactivity.google.com/page?page=youtube_likes
• Subscriptions: https://myactivity.google.com/page?page=youtube_subscriptions

This webpage describes a few webpages like above: https://myactivity.google.com/more-activity

If you go this way, don't hesitate to share your parsing code with others for instance on this repository.