Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools Team

We launched a new Application Gallery to feature projects that integrate with YouTube. This supersedes our previous forum wiki page and now also allows you to rate and comment on your favorite applications.Read More

Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools Team

We launched a new Application Gallery to feature projects that integrate with YouTube. This supersedes our previous forum wiki page and now also allows you to rate and comment on your favorite applications.

The new gallery is self-service so submit your application for inclusion today! Don't worry if your listing does not show up right away. We need a few days to review your app before including it in the gallery. If your app is rejected, please be sure to review our API Terms of Service again. Keep it classy, guys.

If you haven't written a YouTube app yet, this will be a great place to peruse examples and get inspiration.

Posted by Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools Team

We launched a great tool to help you play around with the Data API and wrap your head around all the basic API operations before diving into code.Read More

Posted by Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools Team

We launched a great tool to help you play around with the Data API and wrap your head around all the basic API operations before diving into code.

Check it out:
http://gdata.youtube.com/demo/index.html

Build query strings, experiment with the different feeds, and even make authenticated queries using AuthSub. This is also a great way to help debug problems with the API and compare responses against what you are seeing in your code.

Let us know if you have any feedback in the forum.

Posted by Andy Diamondstein, YouTube APIs and Tools Team

In the past few months, thousands of you posted questions in our API forum, many for the very first time in your lives, because you believed that your voice could make a difference. You know that the YouTube API can change, and you've asked if we can change it by adding new features and fixing bugs. Yes we can.Read More

Posted by Andy Diamondstein, YouTube APIs and Tools Team

In the past few months, thousands of you posted questions in our API forum, many for the very first time in your lives, because you believed that your voice could make a difference. You know that the YouTube API can change, and you've asked if we can change it by adding new features and fixing bugs. Yes we can.

What we have already achieved gives us hope for what we can and must achieve tomorrow. But there is so much more to do. And we want to be sure that we don't break your applications when we do it. And that's why we've released new backward compatibility guidelines to help ensure that your applications handle API changes gracefully.

Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools Team


I know as a developer it is frustrating when your code that was previously working suddenly breaks because of someone else's changes. In order to help catch new API bugs before they show up in our production API, we have added a new staged version of our API running on stage.gdata.youtube.com.Read More

Posted by Jeff Fisher, YouTube APIs and Tools Team


I know as a developer it is frustrating when your code that was previously working suddenly breaks because of someone else's changes. In order to help catch new API bugs before they show up in our production API, we have added a new staged version of our API running on stage.gdata.youtube.com.

To use the staged instance, simply retrieve a feed from the different hostname. For example, instead of retrieving

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos

you would retrieve

http://stage.gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos

For uploads you can use:

http://uploads.stage.gdata.youtube.com/

This staged instance is not supported and will not have the reliability of the live API, so please do not use it in any live site. It is only to be used for testing your application against upcoming versions of the API to ensure that nothing is broken.

Go ahead and test your applications right now for the upcoming November release. In the future, we will pre-announce new versions of the API on stage once they are available on our announcement-only forum:

http://groups.google.com/group/youtube-api

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Posted by Austin Chau, Google Data APIs Team

With Geo-based search for YouTube API, you can now find all those wonderful videos nearby a particular location. And of course, a visitor to your site is most likely interested in his/her current location when using this feature. This is where the Gears Geolocation API comes in handy.

Gears Geolocation API provides a best-effort approximation (WIFI-based for PC and GPS/CellID-based for mobile devices) of your physical location. When you combine these two features together, you can create some really interesting and useful applications. Check out this demo that I put together that let you geo-search for videos nearby your current location and overlay them with Google Maps. The demo source code for this can be found here.

YouTube Geo + Gears