Trying to write a tool to grab YT information, and I'm starting out with the banner image. Usually I use Inspect Element and it will tell me the source, however on a channel like this I see no such URL. Id like to be able to, in my script, use something like wget and have it grab the image.
My hopes are to NOT have to rely on the YT API to save users from having to go through that.
I'm just trying to see if there is a URL scheme to retrieve a channel's banner. Thanks
In case it's better for me to add it all in one question, here it goes: I'd like to be able to grab all of the following w/o the API:
user avatar (highest quality)
video watermark (also in highest qual.)
channel description
related urls (at the top right, usually a channel's twitter account, main website, etc.)
Related
this is desired output for site
this is how youtube displays multiple playlist...how can I add this just like they have it to my site AND to linkedin profile?
embedding the share html link just brings in playlist but it does not display properly....I need it to appear exactly like it does in attached pic???
Linking to your LinkedIn profile, I have not tried. So perhaps someone else can tell you.
As to having a section like the one you showed to be on your own site is doable.
Firstly you will need to collect the playlist ID's that you are going to use.
Then you will need to get the video ID's from the video's in each Playlist.
This can be done with the API.
As to the displaying it like on youtube, you will need to do that yourself with one or more combination of table's, div's and CSS. Then With the information you grabbed in the APi, populate it.
Best to do it in a loop so as to be done all at the same time. Then put it to the page where you require it to be.
Here's the same video, under two different channels:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gYh9DCN8ads
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5_v7QrIW0zY
The second one is the original I believe. But if you query the api using the id 'gYh9DCN8ads', it seems like there's no information that points you to the original content creator, is there? All you can get is the channel, which is FlorianPurcarus, not Isaac Lamb.
Unfortunately, it is not possible to get the original video ID since YouTube does not make this information available to the public.
However, if you are the owner of the content and you are a Content ID partner, you are able to list active claims on one of your assets. For more information about that, please reach out to your Partner Technology Manager for more information.
There are changes made on the Youtube API, i see bunch of stuff.
But all i want is to get the Youtube title and img thumbnail. DO i really need to go all the stuff regestering for api, etc just to get the title and img of a single video.
So i figured it out.
Yes, you really need to register an to the API Developers Console.
if you are like me and just want to get the title or thumbnail use the
Public API access
but if you are looking more for the extreme controls on your video out of youtube. You can do that but you have to use the
OAuth Credentials
to get simple data i used >>THIS<< basically the snippet holds the information for the Video like title,uploaded by,uploaded on etc. .
I'm trying to add videos to an existing ASP.NET MVC site, and I'd like to show videos from our YouTube channel.
I have added a tag to each video to indicate what page it should appear on. I had thought that I could search our channel by tag on each page to render the relevant video on that page.
I'm trying to exclusively use the API v3, but it seems I can't do this.
I can't use developer tags, because videos are uploaded by multiple users using the standard YouTube front end. This seems like basic functionality, so I'm assuming it's my inexperience with this API.
As an example, our YouTube channel is ChillinWithCharlie. During development, one video is tagged 20141213Cheneys.
I can get all videos in our channel, but is there a way to query the v3 API to retrieve just this video?
I've seen one suggestion here that I retrieve all videos, and filter in code. This feels inefficient, so I'd rather not do this, but I can't even see where the tag is returned with all channel videos, that I could interrogate in code.
It's not just you. There seems to be no specific query parameter to search by tag with API v3.
I would recommend doing a search with your tag in the 'q' (search) parameter, then checking the results to see if the tag exists in the returned snippet->tags property to verify the exact video.
Note YouTube tags are only visible to the video's uploader.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos#snippet.tags[]
Is it possible to modify the URL used to embed YouTube videos in an iframe (http://www.youtube.com/embed/_AJS0lgT-4a)? For example, adding the channel name.
My organization blocks YouTube so I need to create a rule on our proxy server to allow users to access our channel only.
Thank you.
Yes, if you load the videos directly from the user's channel, it'll look like this:
http://www.youtube.com/user/vsauce#p/u/4/CSf8i8bHIns
So you'd be on the user's channel homepage.
"/user/username" is your golden ticket, and #videoid will point to the video if you want to link directly to it.
Multiple other varibles are passed in the url that you can make exceptions for, most notably a playlist. This string will appear somewhere in the url, generally tacked onto the end:
"&list=PLAYLISTIDHERE" ex. "&list=PLE126C843377DCE64"
One of those should do the trick as long as the admins are willing to play nice!
Best of luck!