first time posting.
I wanted to ask if anyone knows how I can search on YouTube for, let's say, music video's that have been viewed between a set number of times. Like the title says for example, between 9 and 11 million times.
One reason I want to do this is because I want to find good music that I haven't heard before. The logic I'm working on is that the Got Talent type video's that get viewed millions of times are generally viewed that many times for one of two reason. 1) they're amazing. 2) they're embarrassingly horrible.
And though I don't think a song being popular will necessarily mean I'll like it, I'm hoping this method will be successful to some degree.
Another reason is to look for trailers for independent films with a similar logic as above. Though with these movies I think I only hear about them six months to a year after they've been released because they're flying under the radar.
If I were to be able to search for movie trailers with 'x' number of views though.. for example, between 500,000 and a million, maybe I'd be able to find movies that I'll like quicker than via time passing and them getting mentioned to me by a friend.
Any help would be greatly appreciated as I've wanted to be able to perform these kind of searches for awhile now.
thanks
You will need to use YouTube API v3.
I havent written this exact request but it looks like you can list videos then filter by 'Chart' = 'mostPopular'
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list
Perhaps a bit of background reading on the API would help too...
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/
First off, you would need the Youtube Data API. "v3" means nothing because it's simply the current version, like "Windows 10."
The API lets you get a video's view count, but doesn't put it in a range like 9 million to 11 million.
Youtube's own search function is pretty sophisticated. For instance,
https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=movie+trailer&search_sort=video_view_count&filters=month. This gives all results for "movie trailer," within the last month, sorted by view count. You can customize the URL, i.e. "week" instead of month would return only trailers from the last week. Or year, etc. Essentially this is a "Videos: List: MostPopular" query, with subject filter.
I have a few Youtube API scripts, and I hardly think it's worth the hassle to do it that way when Youtube's advanced search get you 99% there. If you did, you would need to to a Search:list query for a given subject (i.e. "movie trailer"). Limited to a given time frame (i.e. last month). Then for each video ID, make a Videos:list query to get its view count. Then print all, sorted by views.
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I'm trying to get a large list of songs released in year X, together with their number of plays/streams.
I've been using Spotify API, and I have a number of highly popular songs. Now, for my purposes, I also need a list of non-popular songs (low play counts). I am wondering if there is any strategy to get a list of songs (maybe last played ones?), and extract their release year and number of total plays?
I've been going through the API documentation and I can only find 'popularity', which seems different from total number of plays. Secondly, I haven't found a way to get a list of last played songs yet. Should I be considering another type of strategy?
I know that you can get a list of recently played songs of all users in certain user groups in last.fm. Perhaps there is something similar in Spotify API?
Unfortunately, there is no way to get play counts through the Spotify API, only the Popularity metric.
I have a list of songs - is there a way (using the Spotify / Echo Nest API) to look up the Spotify ID for each track in bulk?
If it helps, I am planning on running these IDs through the "Get Audio Features" part of their API.
Thanks in advance!
You can use the Spotify Web API to retrieve song IDS. First, you'll need to register to use the API. Then, you will need to perform searches, like in the example linked here.
The Spotify API search will be most useful for you if you can provide specifics on albums and artists. The search API allows you to insert multiple query strings. Here is an example (Despacito by Justin Bieber:
https://api.spotify.com/v1/search?q=track:"' + despacito + '"%20artist:"' + bieber + '"&type=track
You can paste that into your browser and scan the response if you'd like. Ultimately you are interested in the song id, which you can find in the uri:
spotify:track:6rPO02ozF3bM7NnOV4h6s2
Whichever programming language you choose should allow you to loop through these calls to get the song IDs you want. Good luck!
It has been a few years, and I am curious how far you got with this project. I was doing the same thing around 2016 as well. I am just picking up the project again, and noticing you still cannot do large bulk ID queries by Artist,Title.
For now I am just handling HttpStatusCode 429 and sleeping the thread as I loop through a library. It's kind of slow but, I mean it gets the job done. After I get them I do the AudioFeatures query for 100 tracks at a time so it goes pretty quickly that way.
So far, this is the slowest part and I really wish there was a better way to do it, or even a way to make your own 'Audio Features' based on your library It just takes a lot of computing cycles. However ... one possible outcome might be to only do it for tracks that you cannot find on Spotify ;s
Title says almost everything.
I found that the music "Boom - 2006 Remastered Version" has two different IDs that can be found in the App:
3EKjTDAEIdyQqsA9qtb5P2
0zlAqnRv07p9ezzFf3k2ky
But when using the API to get information about each one, it returns the same ID:
3EKjTDAEIdyQqsA9qtb5P2
Is this a bug?
It is unfortunately not a bug, but it is indeed very annoying, and your code needs to be able to handle it.
"Give me info for track A! Ok, here is info for track B, just like you asked".
It is a legacy thing still left in the Spotify metadata model called track redirects (the some concept exist on albums and artist too, but are less of a problem there). It was made so that we could quickly merge duplicate albums. It means that once upon time, there were two "different" tracks on different albums that were identical. We had lots of them on artists pages for popular artists. Labels would very often upload one album for one country and another identical one for another country instead of just saying that one album was available in two countries. Sometimes by mistake, most often because of cross licensing issues between labels and countries.
Track redirects are quite rare though if you look at the entire catalog. Most of these redirect tracks are only surfaced in old playlists and are for instance never returned in search results or artist pages. These days we never merge duplicates like this, but instead make sure only one is shown on artist pages, etc. and link to the other in case one is unavailable in your country. That is the concept called Track relinking in the docs. https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/track-relinking-guide/
I work at Spotify and bump into this problem every now and then. I want to change this so the tracks and album become just regular duplicates, because it is much easier to reason about, but it will take a while to fix. I guess I can update my answer here in a few years when it is done.
I am trying to build a site that searches a database of user comments for the most often mentioned names of movies. However, with certain movie titles like Up and Warrior(2011), there are far too many irrelevant results and I want to only search for the title in threads about movies or else make sure it's mentioned in the right context. Is there a more generalized question that this problem is a subset of (I'm sure there is but google yielded nothing so far).
working out the context of a chunk of text to determin whether the word "up" is refering to a film or not is, unfortunately, something only a human can do at the moment.
have a look at amazon's mechanical turk service, you can pay people to search thru the text for you. this might not be great if you are trying to offer a free service however.
I’m working on a simple search machine for Twitter where I want to extract all search results of an word (or words) since the dawn of time (or anyway Twitter). Is that possible?
I can only retrieve 100 results ordered by recently added tweets but I want to for example see how many times “facebook” has been twitted last month, last year, and so on.
I’ve tried this URL: http://search.twitter.com/search.atom?lang=en&since=2006-01-01&rpp=1000&q=facebook but it still doesn’t give me more than 100 results. I’ve read that the rpp parameter has a maximum of 100 but is there a way to “scroll” through the list and get all results?
Offsets and pagination is probably your best bet