Method: videos.lookupVideoMetadata

  • Retrieves video metadata using either a video ID or a US postal address.

  • This method is a free alternative to videos.lookupVideo, but it does not provide playback URIs.

  • The request body should be empty, and the response will contain video metadata if successful.

  • Uses gRPC Transcoding syntax for the URL.

Fetches metadata for a video given its address or videoId. This method is a free-to-call alternative to videos.lookupVideo, and returns all available video data excluding playback URIs.

HTTP request

GET https://aerialview.googleapis.com/v1/videos:lookupVideoMetadata

The URL uses gRPC Transcoding syntax.

Query parameters

Parameters
Union parameter key. Required. key can be only one of the following:
videoId

string

An ID returned from videos.renderVideo.
address

string

A US postal address.

Request body

The request body must be empty.

Response body

If successful, the response body contains an instance of VideoMetadata.