Java Code Samples

  • The YouTube Reporting API allows users to create jobs to generate bulk reports, with the ability to list available report types and create new jobs with specified names and report type IDs.

  • The YouTube Analytics API supports targeted query reports, such as retrieving the top 10 videos by view count, customizable through command-line parameters.

  • The provided Java code samples utilize the Google APIs Client Library for Java and OAuth 2.0 for authentication, supporting monetary reports access via a specific scope.

  • The code samples handle common exceptions, such as GoogleJsonResponseException, IOException, and Throwable, ensuring robustness, and prompts the user for different information such as the name of the job, or the url to download a report.

  • The code samples can list available report types, generate a reporting job, download the reports and stores them in a file named report.

The following code samples, which use the Google APIs Client Library for Java, are available for the YouTube Reporting API and YouTube Analytics API. You can download these code samples from the java folder of the YouTube APIs code sample repository on GitHub.

Bulk reports

Retrieve reports

This sample demonstrates how to retrieve reports created by a specific job. It calls the jobs.list method to retrieve reporting jobs. It then calls the reports.list method with the jobId parameter set to a specific job ID to retrieve reports created by that job. Finally, the sample prints out the download URL for each report.

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package com.google.api.services.samples.youtube.cmdline.reporting;

import com.google.api.client.auth.oauth2.Credential;
import com.google.api.client.googleapis.json.GoogleJsonResponseException;
import com.google.api.client.http.GenericUrl;
import com.google.api.services.samples.youtube.cmdline.Auth;
import com.google.api.services.youtubereporting.YouTubeReporting;
import com.google.api.services.youtubereporting.YouTubeReporting.Media.Download;
import com.google.api.services.youtubereporting.model.Job;
import com.google.api.services.youtubereporting.model.ListJobsResponse;
import com.google.api.services.youtubereporting.model.ListReportsResponse;
import com.google.api.services.youtubereporting.model.Report;

import com.google.common.collect.Lists;

import java.io.BufferedReader;
import java.io.ByteArrayOutputStream;
import java.io.File;
import java.io.FileOutputStream;
import java.io.IOException;
import java.io.InputStreamReader;
import java.util.List;

import javax.print.attribute.standard.Media;

/**
 * This sample retrieves reports created by a specific job by:
 *
 * 1. Listing the jobs using the "jobs.list" method.
 * 2. Retrieving reports using the "reports.list" method.
 *
 * @author Ibrahim Ulukaya
 */
public class RetrieveReports {

    /**
     * Define a global instance of a YouTube Reporting object, which will be used to make
     * YouTube Reporting API requests.
     */
    private static YouTubeReporting youtubeReporting;


    /**
     * Retrieve reports.
     *
     * @param args command line args (not used).
     */
    public static void main(String[] args) {

        /*
         * This OAuth 2.0 access scope allows for read access to the YouTube Analytics monetary reports for
         * authenticated user's account. Any request that retrieves earnings or ad performance metrics must
         * use this scope.
         */
        List<String> scopes = Lists.newArrayList("https://www.googleapis.com/auth/yt-analytics-monetary.readonly");

        try {
            // Authorize the request.
            Credential credential = Auth.authorize(scopes, "retrievereports");

            // This object is used to make YouTube Reporting API requests.
            youtubeReporting = new YouTubeReporting.Builder(Auth.HTTP_TRANSPORT, Auth.JSON_FACTORY, credential)
                    .setApplicationName("youtube-cmdline-retrievereports-sample").build();

            if (listReportingJobs()) {
              if(retrieveReports(getJobIdFromUser())) {
                downloadReport(getReportUrlFromUser());
              }
            }
        } catch (GoogleJsonResponseException e) {
            System.err.println("GoogleJsonResponseException code: " + e.getDetails().getCode()
                    + " : " + e.getDetails().getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();

        } catch (IOException e) {
            System.err.println("IOException: " + e.getMessage());
            e.printStackTrace();
        } catch (Throwable t) {
            System.err.println("Throwable: " + t.getMessage());
            t.printStackTrace();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Lists reporting jobs. (jobs.listJobs)
     * @return true if at least one reporting job exists
     * @throws IOException
     */
    private static boolean listReportingJobs() throws IOException {
        // Call the YouTube Reporting API's jobs.list method to retrieve reporting jobs.
        ListJobsResponse jobsListResponse = youtubeReporting.jobs().list().execute();
        List<Job> jobsList = jobsListResponse.getJobs();

        if (jobsList == null || jobsList.isEmpty()) {
          System.