Page Summary
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YouTube is removing the channel bulletin feature, which impacts how channel activity is managed.
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The
activities.insertmethod will be deprecated, andactivities.listwill no longer return channel bulletins after May 18, 2020. -
You can retrieve a list of channel activities using the
activities.listmethod by either setting themineparameter totruefor the authenticated user or by specifying achannelIdfor a particular channel. -
To view subscription activities for the authenticated user, you must use the
activities.listmethod with thehomeparameter set totrue.
activities.insert method will be
deprecated, and the activities.list
method will stop returning channel bulletins. These changes will be effective in the API on or
after May 18, 2020. For more details, please see the
YouTube Help Center.
The following examples show how to use the YouTube Data API (v3) to perform functions related to user activity.
Retrieve a list of channel activities
To retrieve a list of events related to a particular channel, call the activities.list method using one of the following two methods to identify the channel:
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Set the
mineparameter value totrueto retrieve a list of the currently authenticated user's activities. Your request must be authorized using OAuth 2.0.https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.activities.list? part=snippet,contentDetails &mine=true
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Set the
channelIdparameter to the YouTube channel ID that uniquely identifies the channel for which you are retrieving an activity list. This example sets thechannelIdparameter toUCK8sQmJBp8GCxrOtXWBpyEA, which also identifies Google's official YouTube channel.https://developers.google.com/apis-explorer/#p/youtube/v3/youtube.activities.list? part=snippet,contentDetails &channelId=UCK8sQmJBp8GCxrOtXWBpyEA