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Nubcake
Nubcake

Reputation: 397

Get Youtube username without API PHP

How do you retrieve the username of someone on Youtube who is using your application with PHP? I'd prefer to do this without the API but if needs be point me in the right direction because i don't know what to download , I've visited the google developers site / place already.

I found some code from 2009 but it was to retrieve usernames from a youtube video and it didn't work. I tried reading the contents of page with the fopen() and file_get_contents() but it always appears as if I'm not signed in whereas I am signed in via FireFox.

Don't know if this makes a difference but I was running this on EasyPHP via localhost

Thanks

Upvotes: 1

Views: 333

Answers (1)

user229044
user229044

Reputation: 239452

You can't, by design. You do not have their session cookie server-side where you're using fread. Youtube determines whether you are or are not signed in based on that session cookie, and you do not have one on your server.

If you want their YouTube user name, use a client-side API in JavaScript or simply ask them for it with a text input field. It is impossible to find it server-side, as it should be. Your server has no business finding out my Youtube username without my express permission and interaction.

Upvotes: 3

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