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Youtube API with PHP
essexboyracer
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10 Oct 11 6:24 pm

Youtube API with PHP

Anyone here using the Youtube API to pull in relevant videos to their site with PHP? Would love to know if this is worthwhile before i embark on another huge learning experience, e.g.

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/l ... outubeapi/
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michellerana
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11 Oct 11 11:43 pm

 I think no one will be able to relate with that question as most of us here are not programmers / developers. But I believe there are plugins that can do that for you. :)
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essexboyracer
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12 Oct 11 6:23 am

 It's actually quite easy, as it turns out. Using FeedWordPress you can add the following:

https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/use ... ME/uploads

(changing USERNAME for the youtube user)

The only thing I can't figure out is how to access certain pieces of data in the feed by using an xPath expression and Wordpress Custom Fields

EDIT: Accessing other parts of the feed may be a limitation of FeedWordPress, as I noticed the thumbnail attribute is apparently defined in a different XML namespace, not entirely sure how that works but there we go. The ibm link I gave above manages to access it ok
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michellerana
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12 Oct 11 8:55 pm

 Great! I'm glad you were able to figure it out. :) Thanks for sharing. :)
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