Play videos retrieved from youtube api v3 - youtube-api

Question

Using Youtube API V3, I can extract the thumbnails of videos from a user's activity feed (using the activities list from the api).
What I am trying to achieve is, when the user clicks on the video, the video should be played. I have looked at iframes. however the activities list on the api, does not show how to get the url for the video, but a different the Videos resource shows a player.embedHtml field, however I am confused, how to integrate it to my code.
var activityId, nextPageToken, prevPageToken, videoSnippet;
// Once the api loads call a function to get the uploads playlist id.
function handleAPILoaded() {
requestUserUploadsactivityId();
}
//Retrieve the uploads playlist id.
function requestUserUploadsactivityId() {
// https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels/list
var request = gapi.client.youtube.activities.list({
// mine: '' indicates that we want to retrieve the channel for the authenticated user.
home: 'true',
part: 'snippet'
});
request.execute(function(response) {
//structure of content.details
//https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/channels#resource
console.log(response);
activityId = response.items[0].id;
requestVideoPlaylist(activityId);
});
}
// Retrieve a playist of videos.
function requestVideoPlaylist(home, pageToken) {
$('#video-container').html('');
var requestOptions = {
home: 'true',
part: 'snippet',
maxResults: 12
};
if (pageToken) {
requestOptions.pageToken = pageToken;
}
var request = gapi.client.youtube.activities.list(requestOptions);
request.execute(function(response) {
var activityItems = response.result.items;
if (activityItems) {
// For each result lets show a thumbnail.
jQuery.each(activityItems, function(index, item) {
createDisplayThumbnail(item.snippet);
});
} else {
$('#video-container').html('Sorry you have no activities on your feed');
}
});
}
// Create a thumbnail for a video snippet.
function createDisplayThumbnail(videoSnippet) {
var titleEl = $('<h4>');
titleEl.addClass('video-title');
$(titleEl).html(videoSnippet.title);
var thumbnailUrl = videoSnippet.thumbnails.default.url;
console.log(videoSnippet);
var div = $('<div>');
div.addClass('video-content');
div.css('backgroundImage', 'url("' + thumbnailUrl + '")');
div.append(titleEl);
$('#video-container').append(div);
}

Answer 1

The activities list includes several activity types :
upload, like, favorite, comment, subscription, playlistItem, recommendation, bulletin, social ..
and only some kind of activities are related to a video. Then you can only retrieve the videoId from the contentDetails when the type of activity is related to a video. You can use the videoId to show the video.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/activities
You have a good example in "YouTube Topic Explorer". In this App you can retrieve the social activities and retrieve the videoId from this kind of activities
https://code.google.com/p/yt-topic-explorer/source/browse/app/scripts/controllers/logged-in.js
$scope.social = function() {
$rootScope.topicResults = [];
$rootScope.spinner.spin($('#spinner')[0]);
youtube({
method: 'GET',
service: 'activities',
params: {
part: 'id,snippet,contentDetails',
home: true,
maxResults: constants.YOUTUBE_API_MAX_RESULTS
},
callback: function(response) {
if ('items' in response) {
$scope.videoIds = [];
$scope.personalizedTopics = [];
angular.forEach(response.items, function(activity) {
if ((activity.snippet.type == constants.SOCIAL_TYPE)&&(activity.contentDetails.social.resourceId.videoId)){
$scope.videoIds.push(activity.contentDetails.social.resourceId.videoId);
}
});
}
getTopicsForVideoIds();
}
});
}
and you have an example of how to show the video:
https://code.google.com/p/yt-topic-explorer/source/browse/app/scripts/controllers/main.js
function playVideo(container, videoId) {
var width = container.offsetWidth;
var height = container.offsetHeight;
new YT.Player(container, {
videoId: videoId,
width: width,
height: height,
playerVars: {
autoplay: 1,
controls: 2,
modestbranding: 1,
rel: 0,
showInfo: 0
}
});