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 [...]
I just found a nice litte christmas present in my inbox: Sylvain Boily from Puteaux, France has written a Python-port of my YouTube uploader PHPTube. earlier this year, James Schopp has ported the library to Java. now if only I’ld find some time to add edit-/delete-capabilities to PHPTube…
thanks a lot guys, it’s great to see [...]
my YouTube API-extension PHPTube has been voted 2nd place in the PHP Innovation Award of PHPClasses.org – very cool , thanks everybody for voting & congratulations to the other winners!
just noticed that my YouTube-hack PHPTube has been nominated for June’s PHP Innovation Award at PHP Classes, cool! weither you’re using PHPTube or not, your votes are highly appreciated… [voters are required to sign up for an account, which I'ld recommend to PHP-developers anyways, PHP Classes being a constant source of quality-code for [...]
YouTube has added Google Maps-based geo-tagging of video-clips a few days ago. however, the geo-information is obviously not used anywhere on the site yet (it even doesn’t appear on the beta-version of the video-page, which is available to all users).
as a side-effect of this update, some commentators noticed that my video upload-API PHPTube has been [...]
Attention: as of January 29th, I’ve decided to stop support for PHPTube! Due to recent changes in the YouTube uploading-process, uploading with PHPTube won’t work anymore! I recommend using the offical YouTube API, which can do uploads just fine! Since PHPTube is released under GPL, you’re of course free to adapt it!
You may want to try [...]