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Asked: 2026-06-18T11:45:21+00:00

I used youtube search api for my iphone app. I am requesting 25 records

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I used youtube search api for my iphone app. I am requesting 25 records one time.

     https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=%s&start-index=%d&max-results=25&v=2

I want to detect, that the final record captured by the query.

ex:- Think there are 135 results for “Avatar movie”, at the 135th record i want to indicate no more search results.

I am using “more” button in the end of the video list. I want to disable more button.

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  1. Editorial Team

    For version 2 API, You can detect last item on 2 ways:

    1.

    <openSearch:totalResults>108</openSearch:totalResults>

    If you know the total, you are able to calculate last item.

    2. Whether the next link tag returned or not, such as <link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=rawangboy&amp;start-index=108&amp;max-results=1&amp;restriction=US&amp;safeSearch=strict&amp;v=2'/>

    However, you are require safeSearch parameter to make sure the <openSearch:totalResults> is equivalent to your last index of item, such as https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=rawangboy&start-index=108&max-results=1&v=2&prettyprint=True&safeSearch=none

    Or better you can give restriction by country/ip, such as https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=rawangboy&start-index=108&max-results=1&v=2&prettyprint=True&safeSearch=strict&restriction=US

    If you didn’t put safeSearch, <openSearch:totalResults> may not correct, as shown on this screenshot(start-index 107 is not available even though total is 108)
    screeshot

    search query wouldn’t allow results beyond 1000. as ducumented
    here
    https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/reference#Limits_on_Retrieving_Results‌​.

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