Results are different while retrieving HD videos using V2 and V3

Question

I am working on YouTube API. I doing analysis on V2 and V3. At present I tried to retrieve the HD videos. The output is not matching when I am using same query.

Using V3

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&type=video&q=football+-soccer&start-index=1&max-results=10&videoDefinition=high&key={Developer key}

Using V2

https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=football+-soccer&orderby=published&start-index=1&max-results=10&v=2&hd&alt=jsonc

Where V3 is stable? or should I continue with v2 for my project.

Answer 1

You are better of building on top of API V3. V3 is where most of our current investment is going and we're adding new features as well as bug fixes to V3. Also, I recommend checking out Topics API, more information here: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/searching_by_topic, Topics will help you obtain more reliable (semantically) search results. Only API V3 supports the Topics API.