Simplified youtube search example

youtube_search_simple.py

from apiclient.discovery import build
from apiclient.errors import HttpError
from oauth2client.tools import argparser

# Get API key https://cloud.google.com/console
DEVELOPER_KEY = "REPLACE ME"
YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME = "youtube"
YOUTUBE_API_VERSION = "v3"


def youtube_search(search_term="Google", max_results=25):
    youtube = build(YOUTUBE_API_SERVICE_NAME, YOUTUBE_API_VERSION,
                    developerKey=DEVELOPER_KEY)

    # Call the search.list method to retrieve results with query term.
    search_response = youtube.search().list(
        q=search_term,
        part="id,snippet",
        maxResults=max_results
    ).execute()

    for item in search_response.get("items", []):
        if item["id"]["kind"] == "youtube#video":
            print u' '.join([item["id"]["videoId"], item["snippet"]["title"]]).encode('utf-8')

if __name__ == "__main__":
    try:
        youtube_search()
    except HttpError, e:
        print "An HTTP error %d occurred:\n%s" % (e.resp.status, e.content)