Accessing YouTube API data for top videos requires a Google Cloud project to generate an API key and enable the YouTube Data API v3. While the API primarily returns JSON, XML data can be obtained via RSS feeds using the channel URL format, or by using converters for API responses.
python3 -c " import json, xml.etree.ElementTree as ET data = json.load(open('top_videos.json')) root = ET.Element('videos') for item in data['items']: video = ET.SubElement(root, 'video') ET.SubElement(video, 'id').text = item['id'] ET.SubElement(video, 'title').text = item['snippet']['title'] ET.SubElement(video, 'views').text = item['statistics']['viewCount'] ET.ElementTree(root).write('top_videos.xml') " youtube api keyxml download top
api_key = "YOUR_API_KEY" url = f"https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet,statistics&chart=mostPopular®ionCode=US&maxResults=10&key=api_key&alt=xml"Usage examples
config.json or similar:
"apiKey": "YOUR_API_KEY_STRING"