YouTube Engineering and Developers Blog: 2014

WatchMe live stream!

Tuesday, October 28, 2014

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,

Enable the Youtube Data API v3 and Google+ API.
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

Have you migrated to Data API v3 yet?

Friday, September 19, 2014

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.
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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

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

Tuesday, August 26, 2014

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.

Test drive the YouTube APIs

Friday, May 9, 2014

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 WidgetThe 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 ExplorerVia 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

AnalyticsBy 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 WidgetWith 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

Introducing YouTube developer stories

Tuesday, March 25, 2014

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 your work.
Fullscreen
Fullscreen helps creators and brands supercharge their online presence by building tools on top of YouTube data.

Tubular Labs
A great video is nothing without an audience. Tubular helps YouTube creators and marketers grow their audience and take them to the next level.

Capella Systems
Using the power of YouTube, Capella builds live streaming software that makes broadcasting a breeze.

Kamcord
Kamcord helps mobile gamers capture their favorite moments and share them with the world via YouTube.
Stay tuned for more YouTube developer stories in the future, visit YouTube.com/developers to learn more about YouTube APIs and start your own story.

-Amanda Surya and the YouTube for Developers team

Committing to the YouTube Data API v3

Tuesday, March 4, 2014

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

Engineering and Developers Blog

WatchMe live stream!

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

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