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Dude, are you still on YouTube API v2?

March 11th, 2015 | by Ibrahim Ulukaya | published in Youtube API

Nah man, my mom is on v2.

Your YouTube integration is important; but, do you know if you are still on the soon-to-be-retired v2 API or taking advantage of many new features that the new Data API v3 offers, like “video ratings,” “in-video promotions” and “channel sections?”

Retirement plan

In March 2014, we announced that the v2 API would be retired in April 20, 2015, and would be shut down soon thereafter. To help you with your migration, we launched the migration guide in September. Now, we’d like to provide you with more details on the plan to retire v2.

To make sure that you’ve migrated everything over before fully shutting off the v2 API, we’ll perform the first of what we call “blackout tests” for the v2 API in the coming weeks, where we’ll shut down the v2 API for a limited period of time. The blackout tests, which will take place on different days of the week and at varying times of day, are meant to help you better understand the impact the retirement will have on your applications and users.

Most of the v2 requests during the blackout window will be responded to with a HTTP 410 Gone. If you want to test your application’s reaction to this response, point it at eol.gdata.youtube.com instead of gdata.youtube.com.

How you can migrate

Check out the frequently asked questions and migration guide for the most up-to-date instructions on how to update specific features to use the new API. The guide now lists all of the v2 API functionality that is being deprecated and won’t be offered in the v3 API. It also identifies a couple of features that we’re migrating but still working on, like “captions” and “comments”. And, finally, it includes updated instructions for a few newly migrated features, like “browser-based uploading” and “language relevant search”.

Once you’re done with that, join the rest of the folks who’ve migrated, kick back and enjoy this.

- Ibrahim Ulukaya, and the YouTube for Developers team

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WatchMe live stream!

October 28th, 2014 | by Ibrahim Ulukaya | published in Youtube API

With the new YouTube WatchMe for Android project, you can easily integrate YouTube Live Streaming into your Android app. YouTube WatchMe brings your app the same live broadcasting capabilities that you’ve seen in great apps like Live on YouTube – by Xperia™ and Re – by HTC.

YouTube WatchMe for Android is an open-source project that uses the YouTube Data API v3, YouTube Live Streaming API, Google Play Services and Plus API. You can customize it for your app, and you can also contribute to the project by filing merge requests for new features or submitting bug reports.

How to start using the app

Sync the Github repo
In your Google Developer Console,
1. Enable the Youtube Data API v3 and Google+ API.
2. Create a client ID for Android, using your SHA1 and package name.
Include cross-platform compiled streaming libraries.

Either

libffmpeg.so under src/main/jniLibs/armeabi,

another streaming library with modifying VideoStreamingInterface

Main Activity

Live Streaming Activity

This App is still experimental, so stay tuned here and subscribe to the YouTube for Developers channel to keep up on the latest.

Cheers,

—Ibrahim Ulukaya, and the YouTube API Team

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Have you migrated to Data API v3 yet?

September 19th, 2014 | by Ibrahim Ulukaya | published in Youtube API

If you’re already using or migrated to the YouTube Data API v3, you can stop reading and go watch this instead.

If you haven’t yet migrated from the previous API version (v2), we wanted to remind you it will be unsupported as of April 20, 2015, and shut down soon thereafter. To make it fast and easy for you to migrate, check out the new Migration Guide. It’ll help you identify the v3 API methods and parameters that correspond to the functionality that you’ve been using in the v2 API. It also points out new features that the v3 API supports.

The guide also lists functionality that is yet to be migrated as well as v2 features that will or might be deprecated, so you can check any feature your current app may be using and share feedback with us.

Once you’re done with that, join the rest of the folks who’ve migrated, kick back and enjoy this.

- Ibrahim Ulukaya, Andy Diamondstein and the YouTube for Developers team

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Find videos uploaded from any location with the YouTube Data API v3

August 26th, 2014 | by Ibrahim Ulukaya | published in Youtube API

When news breaks, it’s critical to have immediate, unfiltered access to information about the unfolding developments. During events like the Ukrainian protests and the Arab Spring, people are uploading firsthand, breaking news stories to YouTube. The YouTube Data API (v3) makes it easier to find those videos by supporting the ability to search for videos within a given radius of specified latitude/longitude coordinates. By using this feature in conjunction with the specific Freebase topic filter and upload date with time, you can discover up-to-the-minute breaking news material from people witnessing important world events.

To see an example, check out this web app that uses the new YouTube location search feature and Google Maps APIs. The app is used by news agencies to find legitimate footage and allows them to filter videos based on location, keywords, and upload time.

To search for geotagged videos, set the latitude and longitude to specify the center of a circular geographic area to be searched and the location radius to define the size of the circle. The radius can be in meters, kilometers or miles with a max size of 1000 KM.

Don’t have the latitude and longitude? Not a problem. The Google Maps API can geo-code search terms (e.g., “Boston”) and return the appropriate geographic coordinates. The Google Maps API also lets you create interactive maps to plot the results of the search. For your convenience, we’re publishing the code as open source for all to use.

Vladimir Vuskovic, Stephen Nicholls and the YouTube for Developers team.

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Test drive the YouTube APIs

May 9th, 2014 | by Ibrahim Ulukaya | published in Youtube API

Since the launch of the new YouTube for Developers site, you’ve been able to access API resources, see the showcase apps and hear the stories of successful YouTube Developers. With today’s addition of four new demos, you’ll be able to play with the APIs and find use cases you can easily adapt into your own application.

Upload Widget

The Upload Widget demo uses the YouTube Data API, resumable uploads, YouTube Upload Widget, and the YouTube iFrame Player API. Inspired by globalfeed.org, it lets visitors upload videos in which they answer a few questions. On the first page, users can also see answers uploaded by others.

Upload Widget

Topic Explorer

Via the Freebase API and the YouTube Data API, the Topic Explorer helps visitors find videos related to queries using the Google Knowledge Graph. After the initial query search on Freebase, users can select the exact entity on the Google Knowledge Graph and find videos related to the entity rather than to the simple search term. They can then watch these videos in a player that uses the YouTube iFrame API.

Topic Explorer

Analytics

By using the YouTube Analytics API, viewers can see the geographic distribution of viewers for Google Developer videos during Google I/O 2013. They can slide through different dates to change the statistics. They can also hover over continents to find the exact viewcounts and the most popular videos for that continent for the selected date.

Analytics

Live Widget

With the power of the YouTube Live Streaming API and the YouTube Data API, visitors can see the most popular YouTube live streams right now. They can click the titles of streams to watch them in a player, which uses the YouTube iFrame API, or simply click one of the empty time slots in the last row to schedule their own broadcasts in the calendar.

Live Widget

Stay tuned here and subscribe to the YouTube for Developers channel to keep up on the latest.

—Ibrahim Ulukaya, Danny Reed, Corrie Appelbaum and the YouTube for Developers team

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Introducing YouTube developer stories

March 26th, 2014 | by Amanda Surya | published in Youtube API

Over the years, we have seen many amazing applications built using the YouTube APIs. These applications span different verticals and extend YouTube to a broader audience. We invited four developers to share their stories and give you inspiration for yo…

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Committing to the YouTube Data API v3

March 4th, 2014 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API

Since the YouTube Data API v3 launch in 2012, many of you have used the v3 API to create integrations like Next Big Sound and Interesante.

The YouTube Data API v3 is now on the list of APIs identified in our deprecation policy, which means we will notify developers a year in advance before deprecating v3. Note, however, that some specific v3 features are excluded from this notice requirement. You can find the list here. As a reminder, v3 gives you the ability to get information about Freebase topics associated with the videos, more search features, improved client libraries support and much more.

To focus on improving v3, it’s time to say goodbye to our old friend, v2. In keeping with deprecation policy, most API functionality will remain available for use until April 20, 2015, so you have more than a year to move to the new API. See the deprecation policy in the Terms of Service for more details.

While v3 offers the majority of v2 functionality, there are currently a couple of tasks that can only be done with the older API. Specifically, applications that manage captions or that work with video comments still need to use the v2 API until modern equivalents are available. Our goal is to provide similar functionality well before the April 2015 shut-off date—please subscribe to this blog, the YouTube Data API v3 revision history page, or follow +YouTubeDev on Google+ to keep up-to-date.

If you’re a v2 developer who’s looking for help migrating to v3, the best place to start is with our documentation and FAQs. We’ve also made several videos that explain v3 concepts, such as registering for API access and handling authorization with OAuth 2.0.

Cheers,

—Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team

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Making stories with social media and YouTube videos

February 27th, 2014 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API

By Xavier Damman, co-founder of Storify

(Cross-posted from the Google Code blog, where the post is part of Who’s at Google I/O, a series of guest blog posts written by developers who are appearing in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O.)

Storify is part of the Google I/O Sandbox. Please come say hi to find out more about how you can leverage our APIs so your users can remix your content to create stories to share on social networks.

Storify provides a super simple drag and drop user experience to create stories using elements from the web: tweets, YouTube videos, Facebook updates, SlideShare presentations, audioboo files, and so on (see Storify in action here). This post explains how we incorporate videos in Storify using YouTube Data API and Player API. All the code snippets are in JavaScript. In fact, our full stack is in JavaScript: we use NodeJS and MongoDB which we think is an über cool mix.

The source of the source

To create a Storify source, we need to be able to get a feed of results using JSONp (basically JSON with a callback function so that you can do cross domain calls; from the YouTube API perspective this is the JSON-C format). For YouTube, the main search API endpoint looks like this:

request: function(formdata) {
   return {
      'url' : 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos',
      'params': {
         'v'  : 2,
         'max-results' : 20,
         'alt'  : 'jsonc',
         'q'  : formdata.keywords
       }
    };
  }

This function is called when the user clicks Submit in the search tab of the YouTube source in the Storify Editor. The main controller executes the request and sends the JSON result to the results method, which returns an array of normalized results:

results: function(json) {

  if (json.data && json.data.totalItems && json.data.totalItems == 0) {
    throw "No results found";
    }

  var videos = json.data.items;
  var results_array = [];

  for (var i = 0; i         var normalizedResult = {
           permalink   : 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v='+videos[i].id,
           source  : 'youtube',
           elementClass : 'video',
           metadata  : videos[i],
           thumbnail   : videos[i].thumbnail.sqDefault,
           title: videos[i].title,
           description  : videos[i].description.substr(0,140),
           author: {username: videos[i].uploader },
           created_at  : videos[i].uploaded,
           oembed: {html: ''<br>           }};<br><br>           results_array.push(normalizedResult);<br>  }<br>  return results_array;<br>}<br>

Thanks to this normalized representation of a story element – in this case, it’s a video object – we can build an object-oriented story as the user drags and drops any of these elements. This technique has multiple benefits: we maintain attribution to the original content creator, and we can track the content as it spreads across the web (how many times it has been seen and from where).

The story element also provides the oEmbed HTML code. This is used to render the video embed when the video is added to the story. For that purpose we use the YouTube Player API with their new iframe embed.

Story.json

We have a very simple way to get any data out of our platform: just append .json to any storify.com URL and you get the JSON representation of the content of that page.

For example:

http://storify.com/latest.json?topic=googleio returns the latest stories with the tag #googleio
.
http://storify.com/xdamman.json returns the user object and the user’s latest stories.
http://storify.com/xdamman/googleio.json returns the story object of the story “GoogleIO” of xdamman. You can use this to easily filter the elements of the story to retrieve only the YouTube videos of a given story and create a fancy HTML5 visualization (see the slideshow or this version). You can see some open source examples at http://github.com/storify/templates.

Add the Storify Editor to your site

The Storify Editor can be called in an iframe. You just need to provide a callback parameter, like this: http://storify.com/story/new?callback=yoursiteurlcallback. The user will be asked to authenticate with Twitter and then will be able to create a new story. Once the user is done and hits “Publish”, we call you back, passing you the permalink of the new story created:
yoursiteurlcallback?permalink=storyPermalink.

You can then either fetch the JSON of the story by appending “.json” to the storyPermalink or you can embed the story by loading . This is a great way to provide your community with a way to create stories right from your site.
This is only the start. We plan to open a Sources API so that any developer can build a source for any service. Please come see us at our booth at the Google I/O Sandbox if you’re interested in joining our developer community. And check out this article in the New York Times to learn more.

Come see Storify in the Developer Sandbox at Google I/O on May 10-11.

Xavier Damman is the co-founder of Storify. He is also the founder of HackDemocracy, a community of hackers who want to improve our democracies using technology.

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Building on YouTube APIs in the cloud with Google Apps Script

December 16th, 2013 | by Ikai | published in Youtube API

There’s nothing better in this world than a great pairing, like coffee and donuts or bees and honey. Today there’s a new one to add to the list: Google Apps Script now has built in support for the YouTube Data v3 and YouTube Analytics APIs. If you haven’t yet heard of Google Apps Script, you’re missing out on an easy-to-use tool for integrating and automating common tasks across many of Google’s services. With less than half a screen’s worth of code in Google Apps Script’s cloud-based editor, you can:

Dynamically update a spreadsheet containing watch-time statistics for all of your channel’s videos, with all the flexibility and power of Google Sheets to sort and slice that data
Create a live dashboard or scheduled email report about your channel’s performance
Handle channel management tasks such as scheduling automatic bulletins or changing the visibility of a large number of videos from private to public
Automate playlist rotation without having to maintain a server or keep a computer for the sole purpose of running a script

Google Apps Script’s cloud-based environment and autocomplete functionality make it easy to just open an editor, enable the YouTube APIs, and start writing code:

For functions that require OAuth 2.0 authorization, there’s no authorization code to write and no token management to deal with. Once your script is ready, just click “Run” and Google Apps Script will present you with an authorization dialog. Once you select the channel you want to authorize, the script will have all of the permissions it needs to operate on your behalf, running in the background at scheduled intervals if you so desire.

To get started, browse to Google Drive. Click “Create” and then choose “Script”. This will open a new browser tab to the Google Apps Script editor. Name your project and click on “Resources” and select “Advanced Google Services”:

Toggle the YouTube Data API and/or YouTube Analytics API on:

Note the message that these services must be enabled in the API console. Click the link to be taken to the Google Developer Console. The link in the message will take you to a specific API project created for this specific Apps Script. Scroll down and toggle on the YouTube APIs the script will use:

Switch back to the tab containing Google Apps Script and click “OK”. You’re ready to start writing code. Type “YouTube” and hit the period key (“.”). If the APIs have been turned on correctly, you will be able to start writing code and calling functions available in the Data API or Analytics API. For instance, a short script that searches for videos about “dogs” and prints the video IDs to the Google Apps Script log would look like this:

function searchByKeyword() {
  var results = YouTube.Search.list("id,snippet", 
                   {q : "google apps script", maxResults: 25});

  for(var i in results.items) {
    var item = results.items[i];
    Logger.log("[%s] Title: %s", item.id.videoId, item.snippet.title);
  }
}

For more information about this update to Google Apps Script, check out the post on their official blog. To learn more about how to integrate scheduled jobs, write to spreadsheets or any of the many things Google Apps Script can do, check out the tutorials at their home at developers.google.com/apps-script. If you’re the type that prefers to learn on the go, get started with your own copy of our sample code in your Google Drive. You will still need to enable the APIs, so don’t forget to go to “Resources > Advanced Google services” for the link to the Developer Console project to turn on the APIs.

If you have any questions, feel free to find us on StackOverflow under the youtube-api and google-apps-script tags. Happy coding!

- Ikai Lan
YouTube Developer Relations

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3.. 2.. 1.. and you are LIVE!

December 13th, 2013 | by Ibrahim Ulukaya | published in Youtube API

Since the YouTube Live Streaming API is announced, we’ve seen great tools and apps that helped eligible channels to stream their content on YouTube.

Now that the YouTube Live Streaming platform is open to all verified channels, your live streaming apps will have a wider audience than ever.

How to start integration with the YouTube Live API:

Documentation
- The Getting Started guide explains basic concepts of YouTube Live Streaming and of the API itself.
- The Life of a Broadcast guide walks you through the typical steps for creating and managing a live broadcast on YouTube.
- The YouTube Live Streaming Guide identifies the encoder settings, bitrates, and resolutions that the YouTube Live Streaming platform supports.

Sample code and tools
- Client libraries for many different programming languages can help you implement the YouTube Live Streaming API as well as many other Google APIs.
- Don’t write code from scratch! Our Java, PHP, and Python code samples will help you get started.
- The APIs Explorer lets you try out sample calls before writing any code.

In addition, in this video, we talk about the philosophy we followed in building the API and also show some great demos from our partners to help stimulate your creativity.

Stay tuned here and subscribe to the YouTube for Developers channel to keep up on the latest.

-Satyajeet Salgar, Tim James, Ibrahim Ulukaya and the YouTube Live Streaming Team

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Let your users discover live events and track their audience

October 29th, 2013 | by Ibrahim Ulukaya | published in Youtube API

YouTube Live streaming platform enables eligible channels to stream live content on YouTube. With the addition of live streaming content to the Data API, you can make it easier for users to find information about these live streaming events:get s…

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Spice up your channel with the InVideo Programming API

October 2nd, 2013 | by Ikai | published in Youtube API

If you’ve used InVideo Programming before, you know that it’s a powerful way to attract subscribers to your channel. By featuring a watermark or a hit video on all videos on your channel, you can showcase the best of what your channel has to offer. You can also add a link to your home on social networks with a custom message to drive two-way conversation with your viewers on multiple fronts.

“That’s awesome,” you might say. “I’m already using it via the YouTube.com website!” Well, great! But did you know these options are available via our v3 Data API? The API enables all kinds of interesting use cases. Some examples:

Update the message to tease your latest tweet. When users click on your link, they are taken to your Twitter page
Feature the most recent upload to any channel on YouTube
Run a channel about television? You can write a script to rotate the featured video depending on whether it is the afternoon or the evening, a weekday or a weekend! Or, rotate the featured video daily to drive more views, reshares and discussion of quality content that might not be as fresh
Build a widget on your website or mobile app that lets your subscribers vote for a video to be featured every week! The video doesn’t have to be a video from your channel – it can be any video on YouTube!

InVideo Programming options are set as part of the channels resource, passed as a parameter to youtube.channels.update() in the invideoPromotion field. For instance, to feature this recent “YouTube Developers Live” show featuring our team’s favorite moments, I would structure the invideoPromotion field in my API request’s payload body like this:

invideoPromotion”: {

“items”: [

{

“id”: {

“type”: “video”,

“videoId”: “lzaYch2mqlU“

“timing”: {

“type”: “offsetFromStart”,

“offsetMs”: “0”,

“durationMs”: “15000”

}

]

}

Other options for the type field in the id object include website and recentUpload, which correspond to InVideo Programming featuring a link, or automatically updating InVideo Programming featuring the latest video in a channel. For more information, see the documentation describing the invideoPromotion object in the channels resource.

A video featuring a watermark (top right) and InVideo Programming (bottom left)

Chances are good, though, that you’re using one of our API client libraries, which will help translate these API requests and responses into programmatic objects that you can manipulate and pass around in your code.

InVideo Programming functionality is relatively new, so if you are using an API client for a language like Java or .NET, you will need to make sure your client libraries are up-to-date before you can take advantage of these new features. Our samples are sorted by programming language on our Github page.

You can also set a channel’s watermark using the Data API’s watermarks.set() method. Watermarks are images that appear in the upper right hand corner of your videos that will link viewers to your channel on web and in the YouTube mobile apps for Android and iOS. This is usefu

InVideo Programming lets you reinforce your channel’s brand and drive viewers to other videos or social channels. The API makes it easy for your team to integrate InVideo Programming into your tools and workflow to make them more dynamic and interesting. Integrating the API into your tools and workflow only help to make your InVideo Programming more dynamic.

Happy coding!

- Ikai Lan, YouTube API team

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What to watch? Our APIs can help!

September 12th, 2013 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API

It’s an age-old question: what to watch? Applications that integrate with YouTube have access to countless hours of videos, and, as a developer, you have an interest in helping your users find the videos and channel most relevant to them. This blog post will walk you through a few ways that you can use the latest YouTube Data API to discover great content.

If you have an OAuth 2 token for the current user, your application can make a call to youtube.activities.list(part=”snippet”, home=true) to get back a list of videos and channels similar to the recommendations that the user would see on the YouTube.com home page. These results are customized for each individual user, and the list is kept fresh automatically, so it’s a great way to present your users with content they’re likely to enjoy.

Even if your users are not logged in, there are still are a few charts and guides at your disposal to aid in discovery.

To find popular videos your users might want to watch, youtube.videos.list(part=”snippet”, chart=”mostPopular”) is the basic API call to use. By default, it will return a list of videos in any category that are considered popular globally. If this is too broad a list, though, you can narrow things down using the regionCode or videoCategoryId (or both) parameters. regionCode can be set to a two-letter country code to retrieve a list of videos popular in that specific country (though not every country is currently supported). videoCategoryId needs to be set to an ID corresponding to one of our existing video categories—you can retrieve a list of valid categories and their corresponding IDs via youtube.videoCategories.list(part=”snippet”, regionCode=”XX”), where “XX” is also a two-letter country code.

There’s an analogous set of API calls that you could make to find channels your users might be interested in. youtube.guideCategories.list(part=”snippet”, regionCode=”XX”) will return a list of all the channel categories that are available in a given country. Once a user has chosen a category, you can get back a list of the most relevant channels in that category via a call to youtube.channels.list(part=”snippet”, categoryId=”CATEGORY_ID”), where “CATEGORY_ID” is the ID of the guide category you’re interested in. At that point, you could display a list of the most recent videos associated with each channel, and give your users the option of subscribing (assuming they grant OAuth 2 authorization first).

All of these examples assume that you’re using the latest version of the YouTube Data API, v3. Developers still using the Data API v1 or v2 should be aware of some recent changes to our older content discovery mechanism, standard feeds. As explained in the documentation, all of the previous different types of standard feeds are now returning the equivalent of the most_popular feed, with the time parameter set to “today”. If you are still using v1 or v2, there’s no time like the present (time=”today”, if you will) to make the switch to v3.

Update: For a walkthrough and demos of all the API calls, please watch this episode of YouTube Developers Live:

Cheers,

—Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team

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Here’s my playlist, so submit a video, maybe?

August 28th, 2013 | by Ibrahim Ulukaya | published in Youtube API

Update: YouTube Direct Lite for iOS is now available as well. This version demonstrates best practices for using the YouTube APIs on iOS.

YouTube Direct Lite allows you to solicit videos from your users and then moderate those submissions into standard YouTube playlists for display. And now there is an app for that.

With the YouTube Direct Lite apps (Android, iOS), your fans can

record a new video,
upload an existing video from their device,
pick one of their own YouTube uploads

and submit to your playlist, all from their Android device. You can then moderate their submissions, which won’t show up in your playlist till you explicitly approve them.

YouTube Direct Lite platform doesn’t require any server-side code that needs to be configured or deployed. As the moderator, you will see a playlist of videos waiting for your approval. The videos you approve, will be added into your channel.

How to start using the Android application

1) Register your Android app

2) Enable the Youtube Data API v3 and Google+ API in your API Console.

3) Include the Google Play Services library in your project to build this application.

4) Plug your Playlist Id into Constants.java and Android API Key into Auth.java


Main Activity	YouTube player	Upload Service

How to start using the iOS application

1) Enable the YouTube Data API

2) Plug your Playlist Id, Client ID and Client Secret into Utils.h

2) Install the Google Client Library.

3) Run the sample


Uploads Playlist	iFrame Player	YouTube Upload

Open-sourced to reference best practices of YouTube APIs on Android and iOS

YouTube Direct Lite apps (Android, iOS) are open-sourced projects and you are more than welcome to customize them for your needs. You can also contribute back to the projects with bug reports, feature or merge requests.

Android application uses the YouTube Data API v3, YouTube Android Player API, YouTube Resumable Uploads, Google Play Services and Plus API.

In addition to Android best practices for the YouTube APIs, this project follows the design and development guidelines for Android. This project adheres to Holo style, typography, 48dp rhythm, iconography and uses IntentService, BigPictureStyle notification, and GoogleAccountCredential.

iOS application uses the YouTube Data API v3, the YouTube iFrame Player API, and YouTube Resumable Uploads.

In addition, in these videos, we talk about the philosophy we followed in building these apps and a few best practices for the Youtube APIs, Android, and iOS development.

This App is still experimental, so stay tuned here and subscribe to the YouTube for Developers channel to keep up on the latest.

Cheers,
—Ibrahim Ulukaya, YouTube API Team

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Streaming to YouTube Live? Put an API on it!

May 2nd, 2013 | by Ibrahim Ulukaya | published in Youtube API

The YouTube Live Streaming API makes it easier to build tools and apps for channels that are enabled to stream live content on YouTube. With the YouTube Live platform, you have the ability to real-time transcode to a range of video qualities that support a broad set of devices and networks, dynamic bandwidth adjustment so viewers automatically see the highest quality stream their network supports, and DVR-like controls to allow viewers to pause, fast forward, and rewind during a live stream.

How to start developing with live streams

The basics
- A broadcast represents a live event that you’ll stream on YouTube. The API lets you schedule a broadcast, bind it to your live video stream, and update its status to testing, live, or complete.
- A stream represents the actual broadcast content.
- A cuepoint represents an ad break that can be inserted into a live broadcast. Cuepoints are only available to YouTube content partners.

Documentation
- The Getting Started guide explains these concepts in more detail and explains how they interact with other YouTube Data API and YouTube Content ID API resources.
- The Life of a Broadcast guide walks you through the typical steps for creating and managing a live broadcast on YouTube.
- The YouTube Live Streaming Guide identifies the encoder settings, bitrates, and resolutions that the YouTube Live Streaming platform supports.
Sample code and tools
- Client libraries for many different programming languages can help you implement the YouTube Live Streaming API as well as many other Google APIs.
- Don’t write code from scratch! Our Java, PHP, and Python code samples will help you get started.
- The APIs Explorer lets you try out sample calls before writing any code.

In addition, in this video, we talk about the philosophy we followed in building the API and also see some great demos from our partners.

Awesome examples

Here are a few great examples from developers already using the API:

Capella’s Cambria Live

Capella’s Cambria Live encodes live broadcasts in real time and streams them to YouTube Live. Cambria Live takes uncompressed broadcast video directly from a camera via SDI or HDMI and compresses it into the H.264 format with AAC audio, ensuring optimal video and audio quality.

Elgato

Elgato Game Capture HD enables you to stream PlayStation or Xbox gameplay to share it with your friends and fans as it happens. Elgato’s video products enable high-quality video recording and conversion for consumers and professionals alike.


XSplit		Radioline

XSplit is a streaming and video-mixing application that is fun and easy to use. It is widely-used for streaming games.

Radioline designs and operates a cloud-based mobile internet radio. You can find or discover new radio stations according to their names, genres, areas or according to your favorite playlists.

This API is still experimental, so stay tuned here and subscribe to the YouTube for Developers channel to keep up on the latest.

Cheers,

– Derek Tan, Satyajeet Salgar, and the YouTube Live Streaming API Team

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Google Data

Youtube API

Dude, are you still on YouTube API v2?

WatchMe live stream!

With the new YouTube WatchMe for Android project, you can easily integrate YouTube Live Streaming into your Android app. YouTube WatchMe brings your app the same live broadcasting capabilities that you’ve seen in great apps like Live on YouTube – by Xperia™ and Re – by HTC.

Have you migrated to Data API v3 yet?

Find videos uploaded from any location with the YouTube Data API v3

Test drive the YouTube APIs

Introducing YouTube developer stories

Committing to the YouTube Data API v3

Making stories with social media and YouTube videos

Building on YouTube APIs in the cloud with Google Apps Script

3.. 2.. 1.. and you are LIVE!

How to start integration with the YouTube Live API:

Let your users discover live events and track their audience

Spice up your channel with the InVideo Programming API

What to watch? Our APIs can help!

Here’s my playlist, so submit a video, maybe?

Streaming to YouTube Live? Put an API on it!

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