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Introduction – Introduction to Services_YouTube

Introduction to Services_YouTube

Services_YouTube is an abstraction for the webservice of YouTube APIs. Using YouTube APIs, you can easily integrate online videos from YouTube's rapidly growing repository of videos into your application. To use YouTube API and this package, create a YouTube account and create a YouTube developer profile.

YouTube APIs currently allow read-only access to key parts of the YouTube video respository and user community. Services_YouTube provides functions for YouTube APIs using O-O abstraction access.

Example

Example – Basic examples of Services_YouTube

Basic examples of Services_YouTube

The following examples show how to use some basic features of Services_YouTube:

Retrieves the public parts of a user profile.

<?php
require_once 'Services/YouTube.php';

$dev_id = "YOUR_DEV_ID";
$user_id = "USER_ID";
$youtube = new Services_YouTube($dev_id, array('useCache' => true));
$user = $youtube->getProfile($user_id);
$profile = $user->user_profile;
print "{$profile->first_name} {$profile->last_name} :({$profile->video_watch_count} Watched.)\n";
?>

Lists a user's favorite videos.

<?php
require_once 'Services/YouTube.php';

$dev_id = "YOUR_DEV_ID";
$user_id = "USER_ID";
$youtube = new Services_YouTube($dev_id, array('useCache' => true));
$videos = $youtube->listFavoriteVideos($user_id);
foreach ($videos->xpath('//video') as $i => $video) {
    print "<img src='{$video->thumbnail_url}' alt='{$video->title}' />\n";
    print "<a href='{$video->url}'>URL</a><br />\n";
}
?>

Lists a user's friends.

<?php
require_once 'Services/YouTube.php';

$dev_id = "YOUR_DEV_ID";
$user_id = "USER_ID";
$youtube = new Services_YouTube($dev_id, array('useCache' => true));
$users = $youtube->listFriends($user_id);
foreach ($users->xpath('//friend') as $i => $friend) {
    print "{$friend->user} : Upload: {$friend->video_upload_count}";
}
?>

Lists all videos that have the specified tag.

<?php
require_once 'Services/YouTube.php';

$dev_id = "YOUR_DEV_ID";
$tag = "test";
$youtube = new Services_YouTube($dev_id, array('useCache' => true));
$videos = $youtube->listByTag($tag);
foreach ($videos->xpath('//video') as $i => $video) {
    print "<img src='{$video->thumbnail_url}' alt='{$video->title}' />\n";
    print "<a href='{$video->url}'>URL</a><br />\n";
}
?>

Lists all videos that were uploaded by the specified user.

<?php
require_once 'Services/YouTube.php';

$dev_id = "YOUR_DEV_ID";
$user_id = "USER_ID";
$youtube = new Services_YouTube($dev_id, array('useCache' => true));
$videos = $youtube->listByUser($user_id);
foreach ($videos->xpath('//video') as $i => $video) {
    print "<img src='{$video->thumbnail_url}' alt='{$video->title}' />\n";
    print "<a href='{$video->url}'>URL</a><br />\n";
}
?>

Lists the most recent 25 videos that have been featured on the front page of the YouTube site.

<?php
require_once 'Services/YouTube.php';

$dev_id = "YOUR_DEV_ID";
$youtube = new Services_YouTube($dev_id, array('useCache' => true));
$videos = $youtube->listFeatured();
foreach ($videos->xpath('//video') as $i => $video) {
    print "<img src='{$video->thumbnail_url}' alt='{$video->title}' />\n";
    print "<a href='{$video->url}'>URL</a><br />\n";
}
?>

Displays the details for a video.

<?php
require_once 'Services/YouTube.php';

$dev_id = "YOUR_DEV_ID";
$video_id = "VIDEO_ID";
$youtube = new Services_YouTube($dev_id, array('useCache' => true));
$video = $youtube->getDetails($video_id);
$details = $video->video_details;
print "{$details->title} : ({$details->tags}) : RATE: {$details->rating_avg} in {$detials->rating_count}";
print "<img src='{$details->thumbnail_url}' alt={$details->title}><hr /><hr />";
foreach ($details->xpath('//comment') as $i => $comment) {
    print "{$comment->author} : {$comment->text}<hr />";
}
?>