'Possible to Find Total # of YouTube videos using YouTube API?
Does the API expose the number of total videos in the database to date? I've been trying to compile the number of YouTube videos for a research project.
So far, I've only found answers which are either: (1) outdated, or (2) speculative.
(An example: the researchers in this paper used the YouTube API with the "*" wildcard to find the total number of videos in 2007/2008.)
Solution 1:[1]
No. The latest version of the API (v3) returns a maximum of 50 videos per page, and there is a soft limit imposed of about 500 videos per search query, down from about 1000 videos per search query in v2.
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