How to get video duration using YouTube API? [duplicate]

Question

I want to get the duration of a Youtube video. Here's the code I tried:

$vidID="voNEBqRZmBc";
//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNEBqRZmBc
$url = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/". $vidID;
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->load($url);
$title = $doc->getElementsByTagName("title")->item(0)->nodeValue;

Please check the XML file. I got the title of this video. I want to get duration from <yt:duration seconds='29'/>.

How to get the seconds attribute this <yt> tag?

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-19 19:17:06Z

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Due to the upcoming deprecation of the YouTube v2 API, here is an updated solution.

Start by cloning the Google API PHP Client here
Next, you'll want to register an application with Google here by creating a new Project, turning on the YouTube Data API under the "APIs and auth → API" section, and
Create a new OAuth Client ID under "APIs and auth → Credentials" and add the full path to your redirect URI list. (i.e. http://example.com/get_youtube_duration.php)
Use this code (which was adapted from this sample code), while making sure to fill in the $OAUTH2_CLIENT_ID and $OAUTH2_CLIENT_SECRET variables with your own values from step 3.
Hardcode a value for the $videoId variable or set it using the video_id get parameter (i.e. http://example.com/get_youtube_duration.php?video_id=XXXXXXX)
Visit your script, click the link to authorize the app and use your google account to get a token, which redirects you back to your code and will display the duration.

Here is your output:

Video Duration

0 mins

29 secs

Some additional resources: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos#contentDetails.duration https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list

The following works for the V2 API only.

This worked for me based on the assumption that there is only one duration element in the feed.

<?php

$vidID="voNEBqRZmBc";
//http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=voNEBqRZmBc
$url = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/". $vidID;
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->load($url);
$title = $doc->getElementsByTagName("title")->item(0)->nodeValue;
$duration = $doc->getElementsByTagName('duration')->item(0)->getAttribute('seconds');

print "TITLE: ".$title."<br />";
print "Duration: ".$duration ."<br />";

Output:

TITLE: Introducing iTime
Duration: 29

edited Sep 19, 2018 at 19:17

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answered Sep 20, 2013 at 16:28

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Daniele B Over a year ago

This will stop working after API 2 deprecation on April 2015. Do you know an alternative solution?

Chris Rasco Over a year ago

Hi Daniele - Off hand I don't, but I'll take a look at it and see what I can find out.

Chris Rasco Over a year ago

@DanieleB I've updated my answer. I didn't dig into how to auth without user interaction with a browser, but the above code works with the new api.

Alaa Sadik · Accepted Answer · 2015-04-21 05:53:12Z

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Here it is YouTube API V3, with example of getting video duration, but do not forget to create your API key at https://console.developers.google.com/project

     $vidkey = "cHPMH2sa2Q" ; video key for example 
$apikey = "xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx" ;
$dur = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=contentDetails&id=$vidkey&key=$apikey");
$VidDuration =json_decode($dur, true);
foreach ($VidDuration['items'] as $vidTime) 
{
$VidDuration= $vidTime['contentDetails']['duration'];
}

answered Apr 21, 2015 at 5:53

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Developer Over a year ago

Thanks Alaa Sadik for your answer. :)

Sizzling Code Over a year ago

The Duration Seems not in correct format.

Amal · Accepted Answer · 2014-05-20 10:54:29Z

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A short and simple solution using SimpleXML:

function getYouTubeVideoDuration($id) {
 $xml = simplexml_load_file('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/'.$id);
 return strval($xml->xpath('//yt:duration[@seconds]')[0]->attributes()->seconds);
}

edited May 20, 2014 at 10:54

answered Sep 20, 2013 at 15:47

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Amal Over a year ago

@Pat: Here you go: codepad.viper-7.com/ttfsag

tacudtap Over a year ago

thanks ...oh! i just got rick rolled! i didn't know people still did that haha thanks, i needed a good laugh.

Nimrod007 Over a year ago

is gdata api still working?

MastaBaba Over a year ago

I don't think this still works.

Peter Mortensen · Accepted Answer · 2018-09-19 19:18:32Z

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All the prev answers provide the duration in a text format:

This solution will give you the hours / minutes / seconds for you to transform to whatever format you would like:

function getDurationInSeconds($talkId){
   $vidkey = $talkId;
   $apikey = "xxxxx";
   $dur = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=contentDetails&id=$vidkey&key=$apikey");
   $VidDuration =json_decode($dur, true);
   foreach ($VidDuration['items'] as $vidTime)
   {
       $VidDuration= $vidTime['contentDetails']['duration'];
   }
   preg_match_all('/(\d+)/', $VidDuration, $parts);
   $hours = intval(floor($parts[0][0]/60) * 60 * 60);
   $minutes = intval($parts[0][0]%60 * 60);
   $seconds = intval($parts[0][1]);
   $totalSec = $hours + $minutes + $seconds; // This is the example in seconds
   return $totalSec;
}

edited Sep 19, 2018 at 19:18

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answered Aug 7, 2015 at 10:56

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Hamzeh Soboh Over a year ago

How about duration: "PT26M"

Huzoor Bux Over a year ago

How about PT1H21S?

hakki · Accepted Answer · 2014-07-19 21:36:11Z

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Very easy

function getYoutubeDuration($videoid) {
      $xml = simplexml_load_file('https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/' . $videoid . '?v=2');
      $result = $xml->xpath('//yt:duration[@seconds]');
      $total_seconds = (int) $result[0]->attributes()->seconds;

      return $total_seconds;
}

//now call this pretty function. As parameter I gave a video id to my function and bam!
echo getYoutubeDuration("y5nKxHn4yVA");

answered Jul 19, 2014 at 21:36

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Nimrod007 Over a year ago

is gdata api still working?

havefun · Accepted Answer · 2013-10-21 04:32:16Z

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You can also get the duration in JSON

       $video_id = "<VIDEO_ID>";
       http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/$video_id?v=2&alt=jsonc

Oh! Sorry you can get it by:

$duration = $xml->getElementsByTagName('duration')->item(0)->getAttribute('seconds');

edited Oct 21, 2013 at 4:32

answered Oct 18, 2013 at 10:31

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Developer Over a year ago

Please read my question again.

Nimrod007 Over a year ago

is gdata api still working ?

Skora Over a year ago

@Nimrod007 no is not

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