My product is a media player box without a browser supports. Our YouTube application on the box used to use v2 to retrieve videos's url links with mp4 formats to make a playback:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/VIDEO_ID?format=3
Recently, all video links using this method direct me to a warning video, saying that I need to migrate to v3.
I study the v3 but cannot find a way to retrieve the video links.
How can I supposed to play YouTube videos without a browser on my box?
Are there any official ways?
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I own a YouTube channel with 500+ videos. I create one to two videos a week. I am building my own website where I want to host these videos as well.
To quickly move all my older videos I want to create a script where for a given YouTube video URL the video is downloaded in MP4 format. I can then tie this into a larger workflow which leverages Youtube and Akamai's APIs to move videos from Youtube to Akamai automatically.
I know how to use YouTube's APIs to get all my video URLs. I do not want to embed a Youtube video and need to (for business reasons) use a service like Akamai.
I want a solution I can automate so not looking for apps that do this.
I am trying to see if the YouTube API supports inserting a video into a current YouTube video. This can manually be accomplished via the YouTube editor. However, I am looking to do this for all videos within a channel via an API call. Is this possible?
Thank you so much.
Music sites like Playmoss and Submissionhub manage to retrieve the YouTube video file URL from the standard player watch URL. When a user pasts a YouTube URL like this into their service, the get the video file URL like this and save them in their system. This is necessary to later reproduce the media files with an external audio player like SoundManager2.
I learned that it's possible to retrieve the info from command line but that's impossible to do so from embedded YouTube videos.
Any idea how the mentioned sites manage to do that?
It is impossible (and illegal) to retrieve YouTube video URL. Music sites like the mentioned in the question seem to play YouTube files controlling the embedded videos. This can be done using Javascript as described here.
Is there any way to detect if a video was removed or unavailable?
We need to have ability to remove it from the video listing if it has been removed from youtube server.
Hung BUI if you are using youtube API there is a way to filter the video which has been removed or not availble in your locality.
Kindly watch this video and seek it to 2m:03s, The tutor will say how to filter the unavailable and restricted video,..
Youtube Video on YOUTUBE search API
Use a parameter format and restriction along with the youtube api endpoint
https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=GoogleDevelopers&max-results=1&v=2.1&alt=jsonc&format=5&restriction=DE
If you hit this endpoint of youtube you can get a set of youtube videos which can be embedded as well as we can check whether the video is restricted in our locality.
I'm using vlc plugin into C# Windows form application. It works fine with all media type but it can't play youtube videos through the plugin also it can be played in the main player itself. I'm using the following code :
axVLCPlugin2.playlist.add("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxPtmLmqdXU");
axVLCPlugin2.playlist.play();
How the could should be to be able to play youtube videos ?
You are specifying the URL of the youtube web page, not of the video itself. You need to get the URL of the video itself and specify that. There are many web pages that allow you to extract the URL of the video, given a youtube page URL, like:
Get link to actual video