Videos API

API change history

The Videos API allows you to search in real time, all the major media websites including YouTube, Facebook Videos, Vimeo, Daily Motion and more. We use a proprietary algorithm to make sure you get the most relevant video results for your query.

Code samples

@ECHO OFF

curl -v -X GET "https://api.apigenius.io/v1/videos?query=make soap&website={string}&date={integer}"
-H "ApiGenius_API_Key: {subscription key}"

--data-ascii "{body}"

using System;
using System.Net.Http.Headers;
using System.Text;
using System.Net.Http;
using System.Web;

namespace CSHttpClientSample
{
    static class Program
    {
        static void Main()
        {
            MakeRequest();
            Console.WriteLine("Hit ENTER to exit...");
            Console.ReadLine();
        }
        
        static async void MakeRequest()
        {
            var client = new HttpClient();
            var queryString = HttpUtility.ParseQueryString(string.Empty);

            // Request headers
            client.DefaultRequestHeaders.Add("ApiGenius_API_Key", "{subscription key}");

            // Request parameters
            queryString["query"] = "make soap";
            queryString["website"] = "{string}";
            queryString["date"] = "{integer}";
            var uri = "https://api.apigenius.io/v1/videos?" + queryString;

            var response = await client.GetAsync(uri);
        }
    }
}

// // This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
import java.net.URI;
import org.apache.http.HttpEntity;
import org.apache.http.HttpResponse;
import org.apache.http.client.HttpClient;
import org.apache.http.client.methods.HttpGet;
import org.apache.http.client.utils.URIBuilder;
import org.apache.http.impl.client.HttpClients;
import org.apache.http.util.EntityUtils;

public class JavaSample 
{
    public static void main(String[] args) 
    {
        HttpClient httpclient = HttpClients.createDefault();

        try
        {
            URIBuilder builder = new URIBuilder("https://api.apigenius.io/v1/videos");

            builder.setParameter("query", "make soap");
            builder.setParameter("website", "{string}");
            builder.setParameter("date", "{integer}");

            URI uri = builder.build();
            HttpGet request = new HttpGet(uri);
            request.setHeader("ApiGenius_API_Key", "{subscription key}");


            // Request body
            StringEntity reqEntity = new StringEntity("{body}");
            request.setEntity(reqEntity);

            HttpResponse response = httpclient.execute(request);
            HttpEntity entity = response.getEntity();

            if (entity != null) 
            {
                System.out.println(EntityUtils.toString(entity));
            }
        }
        catch (Exception e)
        {
            System.out.println(e.getMessage());
        }
    }
}

<!DOCTYPE html>
<html>
<head>
    <title>JSSample</title>
    <script src="http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jquery/1.9.0/jquery.min.js"></script>
</head>
<body>

<script type="text/javascript">
    $(function() {
        var params = {
            // Request parameters
            "query": "make soap",
            "website": "{string}",
            "date": "{integer}",
        };
      
        $.ajax({
            url: "https://api.apigenius.io/v1/videos?" + $.param(params),
            beforeSend: function(xhrObj){
                // Request headers
                xhrObj.setRequestHeader("ApiGenius_API_Key","{subscription key}");
            },
            type: "GET",
            // Request body
            data: "{body}",
        })
        .done(function(data) {
            alert("success");
        })
        .fail(function() {
            alert("error");
        });
    });
</script>
</body>
</html>

#import <Foundation/Foundation.h>

int main(int argc, const char * argv[])
{
    NSAutoreleasePool * pool = [[NSAutoreleasePool alloc] init];
    
    NSString* path = @"https://api.apigenius.io/v1/videos";
    NSArray* array = @[
                         // Request parameters
                         @"entities=true",
                         @"query=make soap",
                         @"website={string}",
                         @"date={integer}",
                      ];
    
    NSString* string = [array componentsJoinedByString:@"&"];
    path = [path stringByAppendingFormat:@"?%@", string];

    NSLog(@"%@", path);

    NSMutableURLRequest* _request = [NSMutableURLRequest requestWithURL:[NSURL URLWithString:path]];
    [_request setHTTPMethod:@"GET"];
    // Request headers
    [_request setValue:@"{subscription key}" forHTTPHeaderField:@"ApiGenius_API_Key"];
    // Request body
    [_request setHTTPBody:[@"{body}" dataUsingEncoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding]];
    
    NSURLResponse *response = nil;
    NSError *error = nil;
    NSData* _connectionData = [NSURLConnection sendSynchronousRequest:_request returningResponse:&response error:&error];

    if (nil != error)
    {
        NSLog(@"Error: %@", error);
    }
    else
    {
        NSError* error = nil;
        NSMutableDictionary* json = nil;
        NSString* dataString = [[NSString alloc] initWithData:_connectionData encoding:NSUTF8StringEncoding];
        NSLog(@"%@", dataString);
        
        if (nil != _connectionData)
        {
            json = [NSJSONSerialization JSONObjectWithData:_connectionData options:NSJSONReadingMutableContainers error:&error];
        }
        
        if (error || !json)
        {
            NSLog(@"Could not parse loaded json with error:%@", error);
        }
        
        NSLog(@"%@", json);
        _connectionData = nil;
    }
    
    [pool drain];

    return 0;
}

<?php
// This sample uses the Apache HTTP client from HTTP Components (http://hc.apache.org/httpcomponents-client-ga/)
require_once 'HTTP/Request2.php';

$request = new Http_Request2('https://api.apigenius.io/v1/videos');
$url = $request->getUrl();

$headers = array(
    // Request headers
    'ApiGenius_API_Key' => '{subscription key}',
);

$request->setHeader($headers);

$parameters = array(
    // Request parameters
    'query' => 'make soap',
    'website' => '{string}',
    'date' => '{integer}',
);

$url->setQueryVariables($parameters);

$request->setMethod(HTTP_Request2::METHOD_GET);

// Request body
$request->setBody("{body}");

try
{
    $response = $request->send();
    echo $response->getBody();
}
catch (HttpException $ex)
{
    echo $ex;
}

?>

########### Python 2.7 #############
import httplib, urllib, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'ApiGenius_API_Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'query': 'make soap',
    'website': '{string}',
    'date': '{integer}',
})

try:
    conn = httplib.HTTPSConnection('api.apigenius.io')
    conn.request("GET", "/v1/videos?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

########### Python 3.2 #############
import http.client, urllib.request, urllib.parse, urllib.error, base64

headers = {
    # Request headers
    'ApiGenius_API_Key': '{subscription key}',
}

params = urllib.parse.urlencode({
    # Request parameters
    'query': 'make soap',
    'website': '{string}',
    'date': '{integer}',
})

try:
    conn = http.client.HTTPSConnection('api.apigenius.io')
    conn.request("GET", "/v1/videos?%s" % params, "{body}", headers)
    response = conn.getresponse()
    data = response.read()
    print(data)
    conn.close()
except Exception as e:
    print("[Errno {0}] {1}".format(e.errno, e.strerror))

####################################

require 'net/http'

uri = URI('https://api.apigenius.io/v1/videos')

query = URI.encode_www_form({
    # Request parameters
    'query' => 'make soap',
    'website' => '{string}',
    'date' => '{integer}'
})
if query.length > 0
  if uri.query && uri.query.length > 0
    uri.query += '&' + query
  else
    uri.query = query
  end
end

request = Net::HTTP::Get.new(uri.request_uri)
# Request headers
request['ApiGenius_API_Key'] = '{subscription key}'
# Request body
request.body = "{body}"

response = Net::HTTP.start(uri.host, uri.port, :use_ssl => uri.scheme == 'https') do |http|
    http.request(request)
end

puts response.body

videos

Try it

Request

Request URL

https://api.apigenius.io/v1/videos[?query][&website][&date]

Request parameters

query

string

The keyword phrase you would like to search for videos.
website (optional)

string
The specific website you would like to search.

Acceptable Values:
- youtube
- facebook
- dailymotion
- vimeo
date (optional)

integer
Only return videos from the last number of days. A value of 365 would return videos from the past 365 days.

Example Value:
- 365

Request headers

ApiGenius_API_Key

string

Subscription key which provides access to this API. Found in your Profile.

Request body

Responses

200 OK

Successful Response

Representations

application/json

{
    "success": true,
    "status": 200,
    "items": [
        {
            "website_name": "youtube",
            "video_url": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_17twXLAf30",
            "video_url_embed": "https://www.youtube.com/embed/_17twXLAf30",
            "video_id": "_17twXLAf30",
            "title": "Easy 3 Ingredient Homemade Soap Recipe - How to Make Soap From Scratch",
            "image": "https://i.ytimg.com/vi/_17twXLAf30/maxresdefault.jpg",
            "video_tag": "Easy homemade soap",
            "channel": "UCDVvmdjwKopKI59ZY5CHT2A",
            "published": "2015-03-11",
            "category": "Howto & Style",
            "family_friendly": "True"
        }
    ]
}