YouTube-API finally supporting Uploads…
Posted on | March 12, 2008 | 8 Comments
YouTube just announced some major extensions to their APIs (see official blog-post), which finally enable uploading of video to their site. seems like my own hack, PHPTube, is therefor rendered obsolete, and for good… 
. the new API (see the developer guide) seems to allow both user-triggered authentication (similar to what Flickr has been doing for ages) and direct uploading (similar to PHPTube). there might still be a future for PHPTube though, if I ever find the time to adopt the new API. compared to PHPTube, implementation of the new API’s process-flow seems rather complicated, so there might be demand for a simple wrapper. we’ll see… for now, well done Google!
update: Erick Schonfeld from TechCrunch points out what the new API basically means: Google offering YouTube as a (almost) whitelabel video-platform (“almost” since I guess videos will still be watermarked with the YouTube-logo)…
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March 20th, 2008 @ 10:57 pm
Please update your library if possible. It is much easier to use than youtube API, which requires the complicated authentication procedure and developer key. Thanks for your great work.
April 5th, 2008 @ 12:53 am
[...] Obwohl es seit kurzem ja auch eine offizielle API zum Upload gibt (näheres dazu auf meinem englischsprachigen Blog), ist heute mit dem Joomla-Plugin “YouTube we Download” ein weiterer Port dazugekommen [...]
April 6th, 2008 @ 7:20 pm
I think its been a function already of you tube. Correct me if Im wrong.
April 6th, 2008 @ 9:02 pm
no clea, support for uploading through the API (not the website youtube.com!) is fairly new!
May 20th, 2008 @ 4:44 pm
Hey, just a question. This API would enable me to do direct uploads, aight? Then, do you happen to know how could I (under the APIs terms) spare the bandwidth (and hosting space) an user video takes and just send it as-is to youtube? Their docs say textually:
>Binary File Data – This value contains the binary code for the video file that is being uploaded.
Which is a cunt of a limitation when I’m the one to pay for each transfer. Any ideas on that?
May 22nd, 2008 @ 12:03 pm
I’m not really sure, but theoretically it might be possible to build a flash-based client for the YouTube-API. this might enable direct uploads from the client’s browser to YouTube. however, I’m no expert on flash, so maybe there are some limitations which might prevent this from working…
December 31st, 2009 @ 2:21 pm
Hi all,
I am new to uploading video on youtube. Can anyonw please tell what are the steps to be taken for uploading video on youtube using core php not zend frame work ?
Thanks in advance
April 13th, 2010 @ 8:33 am
I would say gData is totally trash, say one thing,
the warning screen asking users whether to Allow Access or Deny Access is really annoying.