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How to Fetch & Embed Youtube Channel Videos Using Data API[PHP]

Shanaya Saxena 2 min read

Get Your API Key

Time needed: 15 minutes

  1. Go to Google Developers Console & Create a New Project

    Visit https://console.cloud.google.com/ & Create a New Project or Select an existing project.

  2. Enable Youtube data API for this Project

    After the project is created, select it and search for Youtube data API in search box.

    Now Enable the Youtube data API as shown below –

  3. Create API key by clicking Create Credentials link




    Copy the API Generated in this Step

  4. Get the Youtube Channel Id

    Go to your Youtube channel & copy the channel id from URL as shown below –

  5. Assemble the data into PHP code

    Now create your PHP file where you want to fetch the youtube videos via API & put the following code –

PHP Code to fetch data from Youtube API –

<?php
/* Fetch Data from Youtube API */
$channelDATA = file_get_contents('https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?channelId=<CHANNEL_ID>&key=<API_KEY>&part=snippet&maxResults=10');

/*Convert the Data into PHP Array */
$YtVideosArr = json_decode($channelDATA)->items;

/*Loop through the items in array */
$video_index = 1;
foreach($YtVideosArr as $singleVideo){
$videoId = $singleVideo->id->videoId;
$thumbnail_url = $singleVideo->snippet->thumbnails->high->url;
$video_title = $singleVideo->snippet->title;
$video_description = $singleVideo->snippet->description;
$published_time = $singleVideo->snippet->publishTime;
echo '<iframe width="280" height="150" src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/'.$videoId.'" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>';
echo $video_title;
echo $video_description;
echo $published_time;

}

?>
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