July 28th, 2011 | by Jarek Wilkiewicz | published in Youtube API
If you have ever wondered how to generate excitement around your video game using YouTube, we would like to share a few hints from the makers of Call of Duty: Black Ops. They included the ability to upload gameplay video clips directly from the game to…
July 14th, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
While the YouTube embedded single-video player has seen a number of improvements in the past few months, the embedded playlist player has lagged behind—until now. We’re happy to introduce a completely rewritten embedded playlist players, ready for …
July 1st, 2011 | by YouTube Staff | published in Youtube API
YouTube.com/create is a platform for third-party applications that enable users to create videos. The idea is simple. The third-party application runs in an HTML iframe on YouTube. The user creates a video with the application, and then the application…
June 22nd, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
YouTube previously offered a specialized way of embedding playlists (as well as uploads and favorites feeds) for playback on third party sites in a customizable interface—we called this the Custom Player. While the Custom Player had its fans, it neve…
June 13th, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
(Cross-posted from The Official YouTube Blog.)It may be hard to imagine but YouTube’s video preview images represent to many the ultimate deciding factor as to whether or not they watch a video. If a preview image looks interesting, it can mean the d…
June 13th, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
There was more to Google I/O 2011 than formal presentations—Google I/O BootCamp was a day-long developer event geared towards providing beginning-level content to newer developers. Two engineers who work on the YouTube Data API, Raul Furnică and Gü…
June 3rd, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
Google I/O 2011 may be over, but we’re continuing our series of blog posts recapping the great developer material covered at the event. We previously covered our talk on the iframe Player API, and the next presentation we’re highlighting is “The …
May 31st, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
Google I/O 2011 may be over, but all the great developer information lives on! We want to start our recap of YouTube-related I/O activities by highlighting our developer presentation entitled “YouTube’s iframe Player: The Future of Embedding”.The…
May 5th, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
(This is a guest blog post by Ben Moskowitz of the Mozilla Foundation.)Over the next few weeks, the Knight Foundation and Mozilla are running a series of news innovation challenges. The goal: get the world’s smartest hackers thinking about how news org…
April 28th, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
By Jereme Monteau, Lead Developer at ShortForm(Cross-posted from the Google Code blog, where it is a 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.)ShortForm is …
April 4th, 2011 | by Jarek Wilkiewicz | published in Youtube API
If you are reading this, chances are you are building an app which includes video. Given that over 35 hours of video is uploaded to YouTube every minute, finding the best of it can be challenging. In this post we’ll discuss some interesting approache…
April 1st, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
Although equine-frame embedding of YouTube moving pictures was launched with great huzzabulloo a few short months ago, we regret that we can no longer recommend this horsey practice. While playback quality was smashing, bareback riding quality invariab…
March 30th, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
The YouTube API supports a number of authentication schemes—AuthSub, OAuth 1 and 2, and ClientLogin—but it’s that last method, ClientLogin, that is in many ways the most problematic. This blog post will cover some of the ways ClientLogin attempts…
March 17th, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
(Cross-posted from the Google Code blog.)By now, many of you have seen our recent announcement regarding 2-step verification for Google Accounts. It’s an optional way of protecting your Google Account from unauthorized access, providing a l…
February 9th, 2011 | by Jeffrey Posnick | published in Youtube API
HTTPS, the secure counterpart to HTTP, wraps a layer of encryption around the information traveling between your computer and a web server. YouTube already uses HTTPS to encrypt sensitive data during the account login process. Now we’re planning a gr…