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Google I/O 101: YouTube for Your Business

Tuesday, June 26, 2012

In preparation for Google I/O, we've created a presentation for people who've never integrated with YouTube before. This video tutorial is an introduction to YouTube and its APIs with an emphasis on how you can use them for your business. It includes examples for technical and nontechnical audiences.

Cheers,
—Shannon -jj Behrens, YouTube API Team

Google

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Java YouTube Developers: Update Your Libraries

Monday, May 17, 2010

If you access the YouTube API via Java using the official Google Data Client Library, we want to let you know about upcoming changes to the YouTube API that may affect your existing code. Developers who are using a client library in a language other than Java, or who use Java but access the YouTube API without using the Google Data Client Library will not be affected by this change.

Versions of the Java Google Data Client Library earlier than 1.41.2 (the most recent release as of this writing) are particularly picky about the data they receive back from the YouTube API and deserialize into Java objects. If our YouTube API servers are updated to start including an additional attribute for an existing element in their Atom XML responses, older versions of the Java client library will throw a deserialization exception complaining about this extra data. While this might be considered beneficial in some contexts, it unfortunately precludes our ability to extend the YouTube API’s functionality by returning back new data in its responses. We recently ran into this issue while trying to launch a new totalUploadViews attribute, for instance.

We removed the totalUploadViews attribute soon after adding it, but progress can’t be delayed forever. If you’re using the Java Google Data Client Library, we strongly recommend that you update your installation to the 1.41.2 (or newer) release. We plan on re-adding the totalUploadViews attribute in mid-July, and other new attributes may follow. If you haven’t updated to a compatible version of the Java client library by mid-July, your existing Java code will start throwing exceptions when you retrieve an Atom XML response containing the new attribute, such as a request for a user’s YouTube profile.

A special note to developers using YouTube Direct: because YouTube Direct is built on top of the Java client library, it also needs to be updated to use a compatible release. The latest archived downloads of the source code for both the 1.0 and 2.0 releases, as well as the SVN source, have been updated for compatibility. Please take the time to update your YouTube Direct deployment in App Engine before mid-July.

Cheers,
—Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
YouTube is hiring! ~ http://google.com/jobs/workyoutube

Google

Labels: client library , java , youtube direct , ytd

New features in YouTube Direct v2.0

Monday, April 26, 2010

We're happy to announce the release of YouTube Direc t v2 .0. This release includes substantial upgrades that will make it easier for developers to test and customize the platform. In addition to the backend changes, we've also fixed a number of reported bugs and added these brand new features:

Support for secure AuthSub.
Support for viewing and editing YouTube captions for any video submitted. All caption languages are supported.
Support for multiple YouTube Direct uploader embeds (for different assignments) on a single page.
Pre- and post-submission text is now configurable on a per-assignment basis.
Users can now select from a pre-populated list of the most recent 50 videos in their account when uploading an existing video.

If you're currently using v1.0, we encourage you to download the latest release and upgrade your deployment. Please read detailed release notes and documentation on the new features as well.

We've seen YouTube Direct used in many interesting applications so far and we hope that this new release will enable more creative and engaging campaign around videos through your sites. If you have feedback on YouTube Direct, please visit our YouTube APIs Developer Forum and drop us a line. To receive announcements in the future, please subscribe to the YouTube API Annoucement list.

Amanda Surya, YouTube API Team

Google

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YouTube Direct for Mobile, and Other Updates

Tuesday, March 9, 2010

Since launching YouTube Direct last November, our team has been hard at work adding new functionalities, fixing bugs, and answering developer's questions. We wanted to take a momentary break from all that to share some updates.Separate from but related to the main YouTube Direct project are two other Google Code projects: video capture and YouTube Direct upload applications for the Android and iPhone operating systems. These two projects are basic implementations that we hope will inspire organizations to add video capture and YouTube Direct upload functionality to their Android or iPhone applications.We've been gradually, and quietly, checking in various bug fixes and enhancements to the current release's Subversion repository on Google Code. One recent change is especially important, as it adds support for the new video page URLs that will start becoming more common. Periodically, we package the current release into a new "tagged" release, and generate release notes summarizing what's new. If you haven't updated your YouTube Direct codebase recently, we strongly suggest that you read the release notes and perform a sync with our code repository. Starting with the next YouTube Direct release, we will send email announcements to the low-traffic, announce-only Google Group. We recommend that all developers using YouTube Direct sign up to the group — actually, all YouTube API users should sign up to receive periodic important notifications.Many organizations, in addition to our launch partners, have deployed YouTube Direct on their websites since our launch, and we wanted to highlight a few here.Gannett rolled out a company-wide initiative in honor of Black History month, in which they ask people to interview civil rights heroes via video. Al-Jazeera invited the community to share their thoughts and experiences around Hajj, the annual Muslim pilgrammage to Mecca. And if you have news videos around any of the big stories of the day, ITN News wants them. Even Tufts University is using YouTube Direct to solicit personal videos from the community called "You, in One Minute".As always, the best resource for developers looking to embed YouTube Direct functionality on their website is our Getting Started Guide. If you have any technical questions about YouTube Direct, our YouTube API Developer's Google Group is the place to turn.Cheers,-Jeff Posnick on behalf of the YouTube Direct Team