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YouTube has deprecated the channel bulletin feature. The
activities.list method does
not still return channel bulletins, and the
activities.insert method is no
longer supported. For more details, please see the
YouTube Help Center.
Returns a list of channel activity events that match the request criteria. For example, you can retrieve events associated with a particular channel or with the user's own channel.
Quota impact: A call to this method has a quota cost of 1 unit.
Common use cases
Request
HTTP request
GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/activities
Parameters
The following table lists the parameters that this query supports. All of the parameters listed are query parameters.
| Parameters |
| Required parameters |
part |
string
The part parameter specifies a comma-separated list of one or more activity resource properties that the API response will include.
If the parameter identifies a property that contains child properties, the child properties will be included in the response. For example, in an activity resource, the snippet property contains other properties that identify the type of activity, a display title for the activity, and so forth. If you set part=snippet, the API response will also contain all of those nested properties.
The following list contains the part names that you can include in the parameter value:
contentDetailsidsnippet
|
| Filters (specify exactly one of the following parameters) |
channelId |
string
The channelId parameter specifies a unique YouTube channel ID. The API will then return a list of that channel's activities. |
home |
boolean
Note: This parameter has been deprecated.
For requests that set this parameter, the API response contains items similar to those that a logged-out user would see on the YouTube home page. Note that this parameter can only be used in a properly authorized request.
|
mine |
boolean
This parameter can only be used in a properly authorized request. Set this parameter's value to true to retrieve a feed of the authenticated user's activities. |
| Optional parameters |
maxResults |
unsigned integer
The maxResults parameter specifies the maximum number of items that should be returned in the result set. Acceptable values are 0 to 50, inclusive. The default value is 5. |
pageToken |
string
The pageToken parameter identifies a specific page in the result set that should be returned. In an API response, the nextPageToken and prevPageToken properties identify other pages that could be retrieved. |
publishedAfter |
datetime
The publishedAfter parameter specifies the earliest date and time that an activity could have occurred for that activity to be included in the API response. If the parameter value specifies a day, but not a time, then any activities that occurred that day will be included in the result set. The value is specified in ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sZ) format. |
publishedBefore |
datetime
The publishedBefore parameter specifies the date and time before which an activity must have occurred for that activity to be included in the API response. If the parameter value specifies a day, but not a time, then any activities that occurred that day will be excluded from the result set. The value is specified in ISO 8601 (YYYY-MM-DDThh:mm:ss.sZ) format. |
regionCode |
string
The regionCode parameter instructs the API to return results for the specified country. The parameter value is an ISO 3166-1 alpha-2 country code. YouTube uses this value when the authorized user's previous activity on YouTube does not provide enough information to generate the activity feed. |
Request body
Do not provide a request body when calling this method.
Response
If successful, this method returns a response body with the following structure:
{
"kind": "youtube#activityListResponse",
"etag": etag,
"nextPageToken": string,
"prevPageToken": string,
"pageInfo": {
"totalResults": integer,
"resultsPerPage": integer
},
"items": [
activity Resource
]
}
Properties
The following table defines the properties that appear in this resource:
| Properties |
kind |
string
Identifies the API resource's type. The value will be youtube#activityListResponse. |
etag |
etag
The Etag of this resource. |
nextPageToken |
string
The token that can be used as the value of the pageToken parameter to retrieve the next page in the result set. |
prevPageToken |
string
The token that can be used as the value of the pageToken parameter to retrieve the previous page in the result set. |
pageInfo |
object
The pageInfo object encapsulates paging information for the result set. |
pageInfo.totalResults |
integer
The total number of results in the result set. |
pageInfo.resultsPerPage |
integer
The number of results included in the API response. |
items[] |
list
A list of activities, or events, that match the request criteria. |
Errors
The following table identifies error messages that the API could return in response to a call to this method. Please see the error message documentation for more detail.
| Error type |
Error detail |
Description |
forbidden (403) |
forbidden |
The request is not properly authorized. |
forbidden (403) |
homeParameterDeprecated |
The user's home page activity data is not available through this API. This error might occur if you set the home parameter to true in an unauthorized request. |
notFound (404) |
channelNotFound |
The channel ID identified by the request's channelId parameter cannot be found. |
notFound (404) |
homeChannelNotFound |
A YouTube home page feed cannot be found for the currently authenticated user. |
unauthorized (401) |
authorizationRequired |
The request uses the home parameter but is not properly authorized. |
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