I have made about 20 YouTube videos each producing an URL on the form www.youtu.be/… that was equivalent to the same URL but with www.youtube.com/….
I produced QR codes based on the former URLs and have published these in my book which was published last autumn (Oct 2012). Now the youtu.be URLs no longer work (why??), but the similar youtube.com URLs are OK.
How can I make the youtu.be URLs work again (otherwise I would have to produce new QR codes, which is problematic as the other ones are published in a book).
If you still having this problem I suggest that your QRcode will be to a site that you own and this sith will redirect to the videos. this way even if youtube will kick your videos out you will be able to upload them to other server and just update the rediriction
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I've been asked to integrate videos into an existing app which previously only let users upload posts with images.
I don't want to host the videos on my own server for the following reasons:
Server Bandwidth
File Size Limits and Storage Space
Slow-Loading Video or Unexpected Pauses During Playback
Issues with converting to specific formats
Piracy
Based off this article:
https://www.wp101.com/10-reasons-why-you-should-never-host-your-own-videos/
So I tried to research into where I could host the files and then I would simply have to store the URL in my db and use a video player to stream the content.
Vimeo and youtube seemed to be the main options I could find.
I'm wondering how best to implement, would I make use of a youtube API and on successful upload, grab the link and upload to my own server? I'm concerned this may be a long process for the end user.
Another problem is I can't see any swift examples (ZERO obj-c experience) of making the http request but perhaps it is still possible but I'd just have to write the code myself? I'm wondering if anyone has implemented anything like this already as I can't find any examples.
Looking at this question:
How do I upload a video to YouTube from within an iOS application?
None of the links in the comments work and the answer directs to the youtube 2.0 API and I'm concerned that this is now deprecated.
Any advice appreciated!
I'm currently live streaming a tv channel (beta phase yet) using YouTube.
How do I add captions in more than 1 language for a live stream (with POST caption URL)?
Even using just one language captions, how can I change the language? (The only option to the user - on web or app - is "EN" even if the caption is in other language)
When using POST approach do send captions on live streams how/where to set/define duration of each subtitle?
Please don't refer this url link. I know it already.
AFAIK you can do only one language, if any at all. I have tried using the POST method YouTube describes on the page you link to - without success. Only get
Result 299: "Error donwloading [...] Can't parse HTTP POST body."
Tried searching all kinds of support forums, but it seems no one has any advice and YouTube never replies to questions related to live caption. Including here...
According to the docs on contentDetails.closedCaptionsType, you can embed captions in your video stream using the option closedCaptionsEmbedded and provide EIA-608 and/or CEA-708 formatted captions in your video from your encoder.
Sending multiple caption tracks muxed with your video with different languages specified by the "Language" tag on the caption stream should allow the user to switch between different captions in the web player.
I'm trying to add videos to an existing ASP.NET MVC site, and I'd like to show videos from our YouTube channel.
I have added a tag to each video to indicate what page it should appear on. I had thought that I could search our channel by tag on each page to render the relevant video on that page.
I'm trying to exclusively use the API v3, but it seems I can't do this.
I can't use developer tags, because videos are uploaded by multiple users using the standard YouTube front end. This seems like basic functionality, so I'm assuming it's my inexperience with this API.
As an example, our YouTube channel is ChillinWithCharlie. During development, one video is tagged 20141213Cheneys.
I can get all videos in our channel, but is there a way to query the v3 API to retrieve just this video?
I've seen one suggestion here that I retrieve all videos, and filter in code. This feels inefficient, so I'd rather not do this, but I can't even see where the tag is returned with all channel videos, that I could interrogate in code.
It's not just you. There seems to be no specific query parameter to search by tag with API v3.
I would recommend doing a search with your tag in the 'q' (search) parameter, then checking the results to see if the tag exists in the returned snippet->tags property to verify the exact video.
Note YouTube tags are only visible to the video's uploader.
https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videos#snippet.tags[]
My site is not able to show uploaded youtube videos when the url is a mobile (m.) site, but it works for the normal youtube site. It seems to me that the mobile and normal urls differ in a pattern, as shown below:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5ILbPFSc4_4
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=5ILbPFSc4_4&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D5ILbPFSc4_4
obviously, the m. is added, as is the /#, and all the &desktop_uri... stuff.
and again:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8To-6VIJZRE
http://m.youtube.com/#/watch?v=9To-6VIJZRE&desktop_uri=%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D8To-6VIJZRE
What we hope to do is check to see if the url is mobile site, and if it is, parse it so it shows as the normal site.
Does any one know if all youtube urls work this way--if this similar pattern works for all the same videos on mobile and normal sites?
In general, any time you attempt to parse URLs for sites (as opposed to web APIs) by hand, you're leaving yourself open to breakage. There's no "contract" in place that states that a common format will always be used for watch page URLs on the mobile site, or on the desktop site.
The oEmbed service is what you should use whenever you want to take a YouTube watch page URL as input and get information about the underlying video resource as output in a programmatic fashion. That being said, the oEmbed response doesn't include a canonical link to the desktop YouTube watch page, so it's not going to give you exactly what you want in this case. For many use cases, such as when you want to get the embed code for a video given its watch page URL, it's the right choice.
If you do code something by hand, please ensure that your code is deployed somewhere where it would be easy to update if the format of the watch pages ever do change.
I have a script that downloads mp4 files from youtube. What it does is to generate link of the form http://youtube.com/get_video?video_id=*VIDEO_ID*&&t=*THE_TOKEN*=&fmt=18&asv=2, but it doesn't work anymore (noticed it today). What do you think?
Instead of trying to use get_video to get the video, try parsing fmt_url_map (format-url map) instead.
You should be able to find the fmt_url_map in the same place you found the token (like in the flashvars of the YouTube flash video player or inside the YouTube page somewhere). If you can't find it, send a request to http://www.youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=VIDEO_ID and you should get a really long result that is in the format of name=value&name=value&... Find "fmt_url_map" inside this result (search through the result for a string that starts with "&fmt_url_map=" and ends with "&").
After you get this value (you may have to url-decode it), it will be something like (without the line breaks):
22|http://blah.youtube.com/videoplayback?blah,
35|http://blah.youtube.com/videoplayback?blah,
...
where each comma-separated entry starts with the fmt value (22 or 35 in the example), followed by a pipe character, which is then followed by the URL where you can use to download the video in that format. (This URL is client-specific, so a URL for a certain client most likely won't work with another client due to YouTube checking IPs. Also, the URLs do expire after a while.)
For a list of the different fmt values, see: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_formats and show the "Comarison of YouTube media encoding options". NOTE: not all formats may be available for all videos.
Deprecated: won't work anymore!
If you want to download to a server you can use youtube-dl which still works.
Well it seems like they have removed the fmt option. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/YouTube#Quality_and_codecs.
I've created a node.js server that can stream YouTube videos directly to the client and it works. See https://github.com/licson0729/node-YouTubeStreamer for details.