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YouTube Captions Uploader Web App
Thursday, January 27, 2011
Captions can greatly enhance the experience of viewing a YouTube video, and the YouTube API has offered developers ways to
upload
and
retrieve
caption data in authorized requests for a while now. However, the various YouTube API
client libraries
don’t natively support interacting with captions at this time, and writing your own code for uploading or retrieving captions can be challenging.
With that in mind, we're happy to announce the
YouTube Captions Uploader
open source project on Google Code, which provides real-world code for uploading captions to YouTube. The code is written for the Java App Engine environment, and it uses some nifty new App Engine features like the
Channel API
, the
Blobstore Service
, and
Task Queues
. And even if you're not an App Engine developer, we hope that the
code
that interacts with the YouTube API's captions service will provide a good starting point for writing your own code.
In addition to open sourcing the code for this project, we’re also running the code itself on a public App Engine instance,
http://yt-captions-uploader.appspot.com/
. So, even if you're not a developer, you can still use the application to upload captions for videos in your YouTube account.
Please share your comments or feedback via the project’s
issue tracker
. We hope that you find it useful both as a standalone web application and as a starting point for writing your own code!
Cheers,
—Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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