title: How to access youtube video statistics history using google's youtube data api?
body: <p>I'm just starting to look into the google youtube data api. I am wondering if there is an option to look at statistical history instead of just getting the up to date statistics?</p>
  
  <p>I see when on a youtube video you can access this information by clicking 'more > statistics', but I'm not able to see an option on the <a href="https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos/list" rel="nofollow noreferrer">youtube data api docs</a> to do the same.</p>
  
  <p>code snippets of what I'm using to pull up to date info at the moment;</p>
  
  <pre><code>    self.APIs = {
          'videos': 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos',
          'search': 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search'
      }
  
     def get_video_info(self, video_id):
          api_url = manager.get_api('videos')
          params = {
              'id': video_id,
              'part': 'id, snippet, contentDetails, player, statistics, status'
          }
  
          video = manager.api_request(api_url, params)
          return video
  
  
  
      exampleGen = method.video_search('hello', 5).items
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>If it is not possible using the data api, will it be possible to do something similar through the use of a web crawler?</p>
  
  <p>Apologies if the obvious answer is no here, I've been googling for the past few hours and can't find any solutions. I can see that socialblade.com seems to display historical data, but again I'm not sure if they do it by caching data themselves, using a web crawler or by using the youtube data api. Any advice is welcome!</p>
  
  <p>Thanks</p>