An activity resource contains information about an action that a particular channel, or user, has taken on YouTube. The actions reported in activity feeds include rating a video, sharing a video, marking a video as a favorite, commenting on a video, uploading a video, and so forth. Each activity resource identifies the type of action, the channel associated with the action, and the resource(s) associated with the action, such as the video that was rated or uploaded.

Methods

The API supports the following methods for activities resources:

list

Returns a list of channel activity events that match the request criteria. For example, you can retrieve events associated with a particular channel, events associated with the user's subscriptions and Google+ friends, or the YouTube home page feed, which is customized for each user. Try it now.

insert

Posts a bulletin for a specific channel. (The user submitting the request must be authorized to act on the channel's behalf.)

Note: Even though an activity resource can contain information about actions like a user rating a video or marking a video as a favorite, you need to use other API methods to generate those activity resources. For example, you would use the API's videos.rate() method to rate a video and the playlistItems.insert() method to mark a video as a favorite. Try it now.

Resource representation

The JSON structure below shows the format of a activities resource:

{
  "kind": "youtube#activity",
  "etag": etag,
  "id": string,
  "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": datetime,
    "channelId": string,
    "title": string,
    "description": string,
    "thumbnails": {
      (key): {
        "url": string,
        "width": unsigned integer,
        "height": unsigned integer
      }
    },
    "channelTitle": string,
    "type": string,
    "groupId": string
  },
  "contentDetails": {
    "upload": {
      "videoId": string
    },
    "like": {
      "resourceId": {
        "kind": string,
        "videoId": string,
      }
    },
    "favorite": {
      "resourceId": {
        "kind": string,
        "videoId": string,
      }
    },
    "comment": {
      "resourceId": {
        "kind": string,
        "videoId": string,
        "channelId": string,
      }
    },
    "subscription": {
      "resourceId": {
        "kind": string,
        "channelId": string,
      }
    },
    "playlistItem": {
      "resourceId": {
        "kind": string,
        "videoId": string,
      },
      "playlistId": string,
      "playlistItemId": string
    },
    "recommendation": {
      "resourceId": {
        "kind": string,
        "videoId": string,
        "channelId": string,
      },
      "reason": string,
      "seedResourceId": {
        "kind": string,
        "videoId": string,
        "channelId": string,
        "playlistId": string
      }
    },
    "bulletin": {
      "resourceId": {
        "kind": string,
        "videoId": string,
        "channelId": string,
        "playlistId": string
      }
    },
    "social": {
      "type": string,
      "resourceId": {
        "kind": string,
        "videoId": string,
        "channelId": string,
        "playlistId": string
      },
      "author": string,
      "referenceUrl": string,
      "imageUrl": string
    },
    "channelItem": {
      "resourceId": {
      }
    },
  }
}

Properties

The following table defines the properties that appear in this resource: