I want to share a private YouTube video via Google Circles. Eventually I also want to display that video in my website, but it should still only be seen by the "friends" in the Google Circles. So I did the following. I created two different Gmail accounts. I created a circle for one of them, and then added the other person (i.e. Gmail account) to that circle.
I uploaded a private video to the first Gmail account, and then, I attempted to share it with the circle. I did that by typing in the URL in a share box. Unfortunately, the "person" who appears in my circle cannot view the video - he gets a message that it is "private". This happens even though he is logged in to the browser via his Gmail account.
So why can't I succeed in sharing one video to all people in a circle?
Thanks
It is no longer possible to share video with Google circles.
Refer to this thread for more details.
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I have watched YouTube without account (mobile app), and I saw this notification video below, I have no idea who is it, but now I know that he/she watches this channel
Could you please give some documentation about this feature
Image was taken from reddit post just to show how it looks
"(x) viewers also watched this video" is driven by YouTube analytics based on your personal 'history' list. The ONLY WAY to 'stop' these pop-ups (which now cover half of the thumbnail of the new video you wish to watch) is to completely clear your 'history' list.
There is no 'turn this feature on/off' button in settings that will work. I'm not sure WHY this is important to YouTube to push 'viewing' of other people's views...other than more 'herd mentality' social engineering at work...but...
There you go.
I use Yt gem to work with Youtube API and upload video using Yt::Account class.
The problem is that I need to allow user to choose channel to upload to – for example, one user has a second channel related to Google Plus page and this user should be able to upload video to that Youtube channel, not user's default one.
It seems like Yt misses the ability to specify channel (or I missed something).
I found also examples from Google https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/code_samples/ruby but all it says is "upload a video to the channel associated with the request" – and nothing about how to associate different channel.
Any help is appreciated
Let's say I have an iOS app where users upload videos. They sign in to the app via Facebook (keeping this question simple). Every uploaded video has a Share button. When the user clicks it, the video will be posted on their Facebook timeline as an embedded video.
As the app owner, is it possible to track how many views, likes, comments, average viewing time, geographic location etc. that shared post is generating for this user? I'd like to know which user is popular.
I've done some reading and it looks like Google Analytics (GA) may be what I'm looking for. Link here. Is this the right tool for my needs?
Once the video has been shared (assuming the URL is custom-crafted that has my Google Analytics Id, Campaign Id etc), how does GA track this data? The Like button is part of the Facebook website. The video is embedded in a container. How does GA communicate with Facebook?
I'd like to track the same when a user shares a link on their Twitter and track the retweets, sharing on Google+ etc. Is this really possible?
I am trying to build an iOS app that uses the Google-API-Objective-C-Client (https://code.google.com/p/google-api-objectivec-client/) to upload YouTube videos from a device. In the example code provided, it is assumed that a user of the library will uploading a video to their own account, and takes them through a sign-in process that interrupts the app flow and either presents a modal window or webview to ask for the user's permission to post on their account.
The issue is that in the app I am building, the video will be posted to our account (not the user's). I can't figure out how to complete the oAuth process and obatin a key without presenting a modal to the user in the process.
The class I'm trying to get around is GTMOAuth2WindowController.
Any help from someone who has used this API before would be much appreciated.
For privacy issues, users have to upload videos into their accounts first. There is one way to get around it. You can use YouTube Direct Lite. So user's would still upload their videos with their own credentials, but then you have to option to moderate and approve those videos to have them in your playlist.
I have code that will "like" a video through the YouTube API v3. At first, my code was throwing a 403 Forbidden error, and I tracked this down to the fact that my youtube account did not have a channel associated with it. I created a channel by going to youtube.com, and clicking the "add to" link underneath a video. A popup came up that said "Set up your channel to create your playlist on YouTube". As soon as I filled out that form, and clicked continue, the code stopped returning a 403, and started working.
Is there anyway to "like" a video without having to go through this channel setup process? Or if not, is there any way to tell if a user does not have a channel on their account, and prompt them to set it up if needed?
For reference, my code is written in python and is based off of the example here:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlistItems/insert
Thanks,
Josh
Edit: There's now a channel.status.isLinked property which will reliably tell you whether a channel resource is "linked" in v3.
That being said, it is possible to like a video using the YouTube.com web interface for an account that doesn't have a channel, and I also believe that it was possible using v2.1 of the legacy GData API. The fact that you can't do that in v3 sounds like a bug to me, and I'll escalate that internally.