youtube live broadcast control

check_youtube_channel_is_live.py

#!/usr/bin/env python
# -*- coding: utf-8 -*-

#Sample use: $ python3 test_youtube_live.py -c "UCryGec9PdUCLjpJW2mgCuLw"
# {'video_id': 'j78TwQCfEzc', 'video_link': 'https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j78TwQCfEzc', 'published_at': '2019-11-14T03:13:53.000Z', 'title': 'Seeing 2020', 'isLive': True}
import argparse
import requests
import json

ap = argparse.ArgumentParser()
ap.add_argument("-c", "--channel_id", help="youtube channel id")

args = vars(ap.parse_args())

def checkYoutubeChannelIsLive(channel_id, google_api_key):
    url_path = "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId={channelId}&type=video&eventType=live&key={apiKey}" 
    
    url = url_path.format(channelId = channel_id, apiKey = google_api_key)
    #print(url)

    r = requests.get(url=url)
    #print(r.json())

    channel_info = r.json()
    channel_status = channel_info["pageInfo"]["totalResults"] > 0
    video_id = channel_info["items"][0]["id"]["videoId"] if len(channel_info["items"]) > 0 else None
    title = channel_info["items"][0]["snippet"]["title"] if len(channel_info["items"]) > 0 else None
    published_at = channel_info["items"][0]["snippet"]["publishedAt"] if len(channel_info["items"]) > 0 else None

    if channel_status and video_id is not None and title is not None and published_at is not None:
        return {"isLive": True, "video_id": video_id, "video_link": "https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={}".format(video_id), "title": title, "published_at": published_at}
    else:
        return {"isLive": False}

if __name__ == '__main__':
    #channel_id = "UCV6zcRug6Hqp1UX_FdyUeBg" #CNNTurk
    channel_id = args["channel_id"]
    google_api_key = "{GOOGLE_API_KEY}"
    
    result = checkYoutubeChannelIsLive(channel_id, google_api_key)

    print(result)