I'm building an iPad app (which is actually going to be part of a promotional kiosk), which lets whoever wants, to record a video (at the place, using the iPad), in order to get a chance to win a prize.
But I just realized that the Youtube API seems to have changed and now it requires user authentication in order to upload the video - which can't be done in my case.
Has anyone faced this problem before? Has anyone found an alternative to uploading the video from the iOS app directly to a specific Youtube account (which I've got full control of) without requiring user's authentication?
Help is highly 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 the option to moderate and approve those videos to have them in your playlist.
Otherwise if you try to login with only one account and upload all videos there, you will hit limits really soon.
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I have a relative simple business model yet I cant really figure out how to solve it:
I have hundreds of small videos that I produce and some of the videos must be paid to be watched.
I dont want the users to need a login. They just need their apple id to pay for the content. That way I dont need to server code.
I was thinking of using in-app purchases but:
1) Where do I host my videos? I think its best that they can be streamed.
2) How do I secure my videos so that people doesnt just share the urls (which they can get from a web debugger)?
3) Optional: Do you know a simple (maybe free) server for hosting a tree structure of data (in my case video categories)?
you can upload your video on youtube or on Vimeo in private channel. so no one can view that video without your permission. Then you can write code to play that private video.
Another way is you can host your own server and upload video over there. To stream video you can your server need access token. which your server has provided while login. in the way you can also prevent the user not to play video without paying you.
As everyone using the YouTube api knows, saving or caching youtube files is prohibited by the google terms of service. So how then does this app [McTube] allow users to cache videos? I googled around and apparently google reportedly told them to remove the feature. Yet a year later the feature is still there. What gives, and how can I as a developer incorporate such a feature in my app without getting kicked off the app store?
Thanks for your time :)
How to get the feed of my account? (Or how can I sign in my account when using Nokogiri?)
What would be a good solution to get the video from various video channels?(So I can avoid signing in my account in problem1)
Specifically, how to deal with pagination?
The videos screenscraped may not be all needed. How can I make a pre-save page to cancel out the videos that I don't want? i.e. create a editing interface for screenscraping
YouTube has a developers API from which all this should be available. Have you checked it out? See:
https://developers.google.com/youtube/
I have MP4 videos that people log in online to access. I need the videos to be playable/accessible on an iPad/iPhone, but still have some very basic protection on them. How can I do that?
I'm aware that putting the videos in a htaccess password-protected folder makes them inaccessible to iPad users, and even using htaccess to block hotlinking/direct-linking causes the videos to be inaccessible to an iPad user, even if the videos are in the same directory the users are currently in.
I understand that the videos can be downloaded by anyone using a Downloader plugin, and I'm not trying to have unrealistic bullet-proof security, I just don't want someone to be able to link directly to my videos saying, "Hey, you can watch those videos she's selling for free by clicking here:
ww w.mysite.com/private/video1.mp4 (that's not a real link, just an example)
I would think a lot of people have similar issues (wanting to protect online video in some way but still have them playable on an iPad/tablet/iPhone). Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated!
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.