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Curnelious
Curnelious

Reputation: 1

Youtube API get a video?

I am trying to get a simple thing - a video, and i just can't understand why such a simple thing, is not clearly defined in the API docs.

To search for a video i have :

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&q=guy&key=api key

Than , i get the json, with results like :

    "kind": "youtube#searchListResponse",
     "etag": "\"MmqJLb8ZBOWRQIsg7xej7lrKLMI/_yCHjN-Yei6to4bLpd2j603Ea18\"",
     "nextPageToken": "CAUQAA",
     "pageInfo": {
      "totalResults": 223929,
      "resultsPerPage": 5

 },
 "items": [
  {
   "kind": "youtube#searchResult",
   "etag": "\"MmqJLb8ZBOWRQIsg7xej7lrKLMI/ruSBEQPUZp3DX2M8M4bcCPny2fc\"",
   "id": {
    "kind": "youtube#video",
    "videoId": "J0tGubH9ZyM"
   },

What should i do now, to retrieve this first video ? i just need to get the link to the video with the video id, (or etag ? ) How the next request should look like ?

Upvotes: 5

Views: 18503

Answers (1)

jlmcdonald
jlmcdonald

Reputation: 13667

If all you want is a URL for the video (at youtube's page), it takes this form:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v={videoId}

If you're instead looking to embed the video on your page, you could either do so with the embed code, which you can get with this call:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=player&id={videoId}&key=api key

Or with the iFrame API, which you can read about here:

https://developers.google.com/youtube/iframe_api_reference

Upvotes: 10

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