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Elom Ekoue
Elom Ekoue

Reputation: 31

YOUTUBE API : Retrieve video keywords

Recently youtube decided to output video keywords only to authenticated developper.

I register a developper key

and I'm try to get a XML that I'll parse by requesting

https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/COwIYbYQUrQ?key=MY_VERY_LONG_DEVELOPER_KEY

The output XML still send me

<media:keywords/>

What am I missing in the process?

Thanks

Upvotes: 3

Views: 1450

Answers (2)

user981090
user981090

Reputation:

YouTube makes the <media:keywords /> element empty unless you "authenticate" that you are the owner of the video. You can still see all of YOUR video's keywords if you provide your username and password in the YouTubeRequestSettings constructor.

In .NET:

YouTubeRequestSettings settings = new YouTubeRequestSettings(appname, developerskey, username, password);

For PHP: https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_php#ClientLogin_for_Installed_Applications

Upvotes: 1

user399666
user399666

Reputation: 19909

Haven't really touched the Youtube API, but 

<media:keywords/>

is an empty element. It means that there is no data for the element "media:keywords". My guess is that the the uploader hasn't specified any keywords for the video in question (these keywords are optional to all uploaders, which means that your script will have to deal with such occurrences).

After having a look at the video in question (ID: COwIYbYQUrQ), I can see that my suspicions seem to be correct because the uploader hasn't actually specified any keywords.

Upvotes: 0

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