YouTube APIs Subject to the Deprecation Policy

The following YouTube APIs versions and features are subject to the Deprecation Policy (as set forth in your applicable terms of service):

YouTube Data API, v3, excluding:

• The channel resource's invideoPromotion part and the ability to retrieve or update in-video promotion campaign data.
• The contentDetails.relatedPlaylists object, its child properties, and their values for any particular channel.
• The channel resource's brandingSettings.watch and brandingSettings.hints objects, their child properties, and those properties' values for any particular channel.
• The following channel resource properties, including their child properties:
  • brandingSettings.channel.moderateComments
  • brandingSettings.channel.profileColor
  • brandingSettings.image.backgroundImageUrl
  • brandingSettings.image.largeBrandedBannerImageImapScript
  • brandingSettings.image.largeBrandedBannerImageUrl
  • brandingSettings.image.smallBrandedBannerImageImapScript
  • brandingSettings.image.smallBrandedBannerImageUrl
  • brandingSettings.image.watchIconImageUrl
  • contentOwnerDetails
  • statistics.commentCount
• The guideCategory resource and its methods.
• The search.list method's safeSearch parameter and its values.
• The video resource's status.publishAt property.

YouTube Reporting API, excluding:

• Non-core dimensions. (Please see the dimension definitions to determine whether individual dimensions are considered core dimensions.)
• Non-core metrics. (Please see the metric definitions to determine whether individual metrics are considered core metrics.)

YouTube Analytics API, excluding:

• Non-core dimensions. (Please see the dimension definitions to determine whether individual dimensions are considered core dimensions.)
• Non-core metrics. (Please see the metric definitions to determine whether individual metrics are considered core metrics.)
  
  Note: The deprecation of the favoritesAdded and favoritesRemoved metrics was announced on March 31, 2015.

YouTube IFrame Player API

YouTube JavaScript Player API (DEPRECATED - January 27, 2015)

The YouTube JavaScript Player API has been deprecated as of January 27, 2015. YouTube Flash <object> embeds have also been deprecated. Please migrate your applications to the IFrame API, which can intelligently use whichever embedded player – HTML (<video>) or Flash (<object>) – the client supports.

YouTube Flash Player API (DEPRECATED - January 27, 2015)

The YouTube ActionScript 3.0 Player API, also known as the YouTube Flash Player API (AS3), has been deprecated as of January 27, 2015. YouTube Flash <object> embeds have also been deprecated. Please migrate your applications to the IFrame API, which can intelligently use whichever embedded player – HTML (<video>) or Flash (<object>) – the client supports.

Fully deprecated APIs

• Deprecation of the YouTube Data API, v2 was announced on February 26, 2014. In accordance with the deprecation policy in the terms of service, the API remained available until April 20, 2015.