Getting title and description of embedded YouTube video - youtube

Question

On a site I'm developing I embed videos from YouTube and want to get the video title and its description.
How do I get that information?

Answer 1

You can do it with oembed.
Example:
http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=http%3A//youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3DM3r2XDceM6A&format=json

Answer 2

Youtube API V2.0 has been deprecated. It shows some wrong value for title "youtube.com/devicesupport" . pLease switch on to API V3.0
YOu can refer the following PHP code and modify yours in js or jquery as per your needs..
function youtube_title($id) {
$id = 'YOUTUBE_ID';
// returns a single line of JSON that contains the video title. Not a giant request.
$videoTitle = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=".$id."&key=YOUR_API_KEY&fields=items(id,snippet(title),statistics)&part=snippet,statistics");
// despite # suppress, it will be false if it fails
if ($videoTitle) {
$json = json_decode($videoTitle, true);
return $json['items'][0]['snippet']['title'];
} else {
return false;
}
}
update:
Jquery code to get the title-
$.getJSON('https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id={VIDEOID}&key={YOUR API KEY}&part=snippet&callback=?',function(data){
if (typeof(data.items[0]) != "undefined") {
console.log('video exists ' + data.items[0].snippet.title);
} else {
console.log('video not exists');
}
});

Answer 3

To get the DESCRIPTION element, you need to access the gdata version of the video's info, and you can return json using alt=json on the path. In this case, oHg5SJYRHA0 is the video ID, found at the end of the url of the video you're working with on YouTube, e.g.
www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/oHg5SJYRHA0?v=2&alt=json&prettyprint=true
(the prettyprint is formatting to make that easy to read, you don't need it for what you're doing)
You can grab the JSON, add it into a variable and access it using jQuery:
var youTubeURL = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/oHg5SJYRHA0?v=2&alt=json';
var json = (function() {
var json = null;
$.ajax({
'async': false,
'global': false,
'url': youTubeURL,
'dataType': "json",
'success': function(data) {
json = data;
}
});
return json;
})();
Then access it using object notation:
alert("Title: " + json.entry.title.$t +"\nDescription:\n " + json.entry.media$group.media$description.$t + "\n");

Answer 4

gdata is no longer available
you can use the following instead
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=(Video_ID)&key=(API_Key)

Answer 5

I read this topic a bit in delay.
I did something like this using jSON and YT API's
$json = json_decode( file_get_contents("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/".$rs['vid']."?v=2&prettyprint=true&alt=jsonc") );
Note: $rs['vid'] is the video ID dinamically retrived from my DB.
Once you put the contents in the handle $json you can retrive like this:
$json->data->description;
$json->data->title;
use var_dump( $json ) to view all values you can access.

Answer 6

I'd start by taking a look at Youtube Data API to get what you want: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/getting_started.html#data_api

Answer 7

GData is deprecated, but one can still get the video description by calling this endpoint:
https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=[video_id]&key=[api_key]
It will return a response of the form:
{
"kind": "youtube#videoListResponse",
"etag": "\"...\"",
"pageInfo": {
"totalResults": 1,
"resultsPerPage": 1
},
"items": [
{
"kind": "youtube#video",
"etag": "\"...\"",
"id": "...",
"snippet": {
"publishedAt": "...",
"channelId": "...",
"title": "...",
"description": "...",
"thumbnails": { ... },
"channelTitle": "...",
"tags": [ ... ],
"categoryId": "...",
"liveBroadcastContent": "...",
"localized": {
"title": "...",
"description": "..."
},
"defaultAudioLanguage": "..."
}
}
]
}
The description can be found at items.localized.description.