Grab a YouTube video that isn't a 'short'?

[demonboy]

Hi,

I'm trying to grab a YouTube video but I don't want to grab shorts. As I understand it you cannot differentiate videos served up from YouTube, but is there a way of putting in a condition in my workflow that says "only published if the length is longer than five minutes"?

 

[Pabblymember11]

I'm trying to grab a YouTube video but I don't want to grab shorts. As I understand it you cannot differentiate videos served up from YouTube, but is there a way of putting in a condition in my workflow that says "only published if the length is longer than five minutes"?

If in the response you are getting a status that can say that the Video is published and fulfills all the conditions then you can use the Filter action step accordingly.

Moreover, we highly recommend hiring an automation expert who can manage your workflow and tackle everything for you - https://forum.pabbly.com/threads/pabbly-connect-experts-and-consultants.22/

Our support is limited to only with technical errors only. We cannot help you in managing the workflows.

 

[Pabbly]

Hi,

I'm trying to grab a YouTube video but I don't want to grab shorts. As I understand it you cannot differentiate videos served up from YouTube, but is there a way of putting in a condition in my workflow that says "only published if the length is longer than five minutes"?

For shorts video, you find "#Shorts" in the Youtube trigger respone as shown below -

 

[pixxl]

Hi @Pabbly,

i understand your solution, but i am using streamladder to create and post videos.
I literally never use "#shorts" and dont have that in any of my shorts, still they are shorts.

Before i was at another platform, one could filter for "duration like 'T00%'".
so this would mean "every video under 1 minute".

Can you do this?
That would be awesome, since you also can read the length of the video, we could use that for filtering.

 

[Preeti Paryani]

Hi @pixxl,

Thanks for reaching out.

Could you please elaborate a bit more on your concern? It would also be helpful if you could share the workflow URL related to this issue so we can better understand the setup and assist you more effectively.

Looking forward to your response.

 

[pixxl]

Hi @Preeti Paryani

of course.
So at first the url: https://connect.pabbly.com/workflow/mapping/IjU3NjYwNTY4MDYzZTA0MzA1MjZhNTUzMTUxMzQi_pc

Problem
You cant differ between video and short when there is not #shorts (which is just needed on youtube).
When you let Streamladder plan the video, then videos are always shorts, no matter if you write the hashtag or not

Solution by another competitor of you
You can filter by "duration".
Duration then is something like 00:00:29 (so 29 seconds).
In the filter you could say "Where duration starts with 00:00".
This would mean its definitely a short (of course if you are not planning youtube videos which are not shorts under a minute, which is not a case for me)

What is missing on your side
- Read the duration of the video via api
- Pack it into the data
- Let users filter by duration

What advantage would users have?
Users could filter for shorts or "not shorts" no matter if there are hashtags or not.
Maybe also a normal video could contain a description like #shortshoes or something similar, but then is 15minutes long.
So this would not really be a short, but a similar hashtag which contains "#shorts" and is in fact NOT a short.

 

[Preeti Paryani]

Hello @pixxl,

We have escalated the concern to our technical team for further review. Please allow us some time, and we will get back to you with an update as soon as we have some.

 

[Preeti Paryani]

Hello @pixxl,

We’re pleased to inform you that our team has made the necessary updates, and the video duration should now be captured in the trigger response.

Please test it on your end and let us know how it goes.