Latest Changes to the API
November 28th, 2007 | Published in Youtube API
Hi everyone,
We recently pushed out a few notable changes -- take a look! If you notice anything weird, please bring it up in our discussion forum.
Projections. You can now use the /api projection to get a feed without all the HTML markup, making it faster and lighter weight for you to use. A more feed-reader friendly version can be accessed with the /base projection. Read about it more here: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/reference.html#Projection
Spelling Suggestions. If we have a better suggestion for your 'vq' query, it will appear like this: (Link to feature request.)
Searching within a specific area and filtering by videos with geoRSS information is not available yet. This functionality is planned -- you can follow it in our issue tracker. Star the issue to receive updates.
Notable bug fixes:
Cheers,
Steph
We recently pushed out a few notable changes -- take a look! If you notice anything weird, please bring it up in our discussion forum.
Projections. You can now use the /api projection to get a feed without all the HTML markup, making it faster and lighter weight for you to use. A more feed-reader friendly version can be accessed with the /base projection. Read about it more here: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/reference.html#Projection
Spelling Suggestions. If we have a better suggestion for your 'vq' query, it will appear like this: (Link to feature request.)
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos?vq=flowargeoRSS information. You'll now notice geoRSS information returned in video feeds if it's available. Format is the same as other GData APIs with lat/long information like Picasa. (Link to feature request.)
rel="http://schemas.google.com/g/2006#spellcorrection"
type="application/atom+xml"
href="http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos?start-index=1&max-results=25&vq=flower&oi=spell&spell=1"/>
...
28.61345863342285 -82.6171875
Searching within a specific area and filtering by videos with geoRSS information is not available yet. This functionality is planned -- you can follow it in our issue tracker. Star the issue to receive updates.
Notable bug fixes:
- &format=5 restrict now works. This is useful for only returning embeddable videos; format 5 being the embed SWF. (Link to issue.)
- The user subscription feed now pages past 20. (Link to issue.)
Cheers,
Steph