I know you can create and upload highlights using the web UI, but is there a way to programmatically create a highlight via the API (or other) during a live broadcast?
There is currently no API exposed to create a highlight from a live event. The only way to create a highlight is through the Web UI (like you said) using Stream Now Beta or a scheduled Live Event. As an alternative, you could always programmatically set up the live event and manually go into the Live Control Room to create the event.
After speaking with a YouTube Dev Relations rep, I believe exposing an API for highlights was on the roadmap after exposing APIs for chat, which were made public last week (see the Live Streaming API's revision history).
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As a YouTube Creator, in YouTube Studio under Settings -> Community there's a "Blocked Words" list which I can manage. The words that I block change daily, and I do this manually at the moment (this is related to blocking spoilers for games where the answer changes daily). Ideally, I would like to automatically update this list with a cron job, but I can't find if that is possible via any YouTube APIs.
So far, I've looked at the YouTube Data API reference and I think I've looked at every item but couldn't locate it, unless it's under some different name. The Channels: update endpoint seemed the most promising but I couldn't find it there.
Is it possible to update the Blocked Words list via a YouTube API? If it's not available through an API, is there any alternative solution that might work?
I'm trying to develop a web application where users will be able to schedule a video call between them. I want to use twilio. I would like to know if the quickstart app of twilio can be used for it or it is just for learning purpose? If quickstart app can be used for this. How many group of (group of 2 users) can it support?
The Twilio Quickstart applications (in this case Programmable Video Quickstart) are a great way for developers to familiarize themselves with Twilio's SDK's and the various methods and properties. It helps with the understanding and creation of common capabilities.
Additionally, the Programmable Video Quickstart has an /examples route, which provides code snippets on further extending out functionality based on your particular use case.
Programmable Video has 3 different room types and their capabilities are best explained at the link below. The scaling is handled by Twilio, so that should not be an issue. If using Peer-to-Peer rooms, Twilio only handles the signaling and the media goes directly between the two Video end-points.
For your use case, Peer-to-Peer or Small Group Rooms could be viable based on the feature set you are looking for.
Understanding Video Rooms
Is there any youtube-startup partnership that may offer a customized youtube API to startups?
Youtube API is open to all. There is currently no customized Youtube API for certain group of people. If certain features are not existing, you can either file a feature request or create your own implementation.
Many web application which have videos to show. For example The New Boston uses the embedded Youtube player. Is there any advantage using embedded Youtube video player over implementing our own.
Pros:
No need to pay for hosting and content delivery
Allows for quickly bootstraping new ideas
Youtube makes content much more discoverable. Users watching similar content will be recommended your content as well. In this way they can find about your service.
Cons:
No way to differentiate between paying and non-paying customers. What if you want to offer premium content to your paying customers?
Youtube takes the lions share of any advertising revenue.
No UI customization.
Sometimes youtube censors things they don't want for whatever reason.
If your website offers its users to leave comments or a "like" button then users may get confused over which comments to use - the ones in youtube or the ones in your website.
Support for live broadcasting is a not as good.
The main advantage to using the youtube player is that you have access to their servers to stream the video as opposed to whatever hosting server you are using. Realistically you have the same control over how it appears within the page either way. Just keep in mind you will need to deliver multiple file types if you go the HTML5 video tag route.
I'm having a bit of trouble finding any resources about making a custom Twitter widget for a site.
Basically, I want to create a realtime twitter feed to implement within a site, that automatically updates every few seconds to show new tweets.
I know this used to be possible, but it seems like Twitter just wants me to use their default widget these days instead of my own solution.
Does anyone have any tips / links to good resources?
Thanks in advance!
A possible solution is available which can be implemented in our website. You can try twitters streaming API. Its a technique of keeping a permanent connection between two endpoints; one at twitter side and other at our website. The technique is similar to a chat application where connected ports listen for any changes and update the changes in our side.
Please refer twitters streaming API