list
The github documentation is not good for nested 'Instance Methods', go to the youtube api references page
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs
On the channels()
reference page, you can see what we can pass into the
required paramater of list()
.
part
. We are interested in 'statistics'
.
but all are available for use
Going back to the github documentation, we can see that we can get the 'statistics'
of a page by also supplying a forUsername
value.
This is a fully functional request using all the info
from googleapiclient.discovery import build import json api_key = 'AIzaSyDzHXVBwo9IA0Y_kBHjmoEf9l66ngoj4Ag' youtube = build('youtube', 'v3', developerKey=api_key) request = youtube.channels().list( part='statistics', forUsername='schafer5' ) response = request.execute() print(response)