!! DOES NOT WORK !!

My try on a revival of this simple api. So far It failed since api2

http://www.youtube.com/api2_rest?method=youtube.videos.list_by_user&dev_id=RCofu-vAmeY&page=1&per_page=3&user=ytlibtest

does not return any useable data, ignore the rest :D

YouTube

A Ruby interface to the YouTube REST API

API access requires a developer id

Install

gem install youtube-rest

# Or as plugin

rails plugin install git://github.com/grosser/youtube_rest.git

# Gemfile
gem 'youtube-rest', :require => 'youtube'

Usage

require 'rubygems'
require 'youtube-rest'

youtube = YouTube::Client.new 'DEVELOPER_ID'

profile = youtube.profile('br0wnpunk')
puts "age: " + profile.age.to_s

favorites = youtube.favorite_videos('br0wnpunk')
puts "number of favorite videos: " + favorites.size.to_s

friends = youtube.friends('paolodona')
puts "number of friends: " + friends.size.to_s
puts "friend name: " + friends[0].user

videos = youtube.videos_by_tag('iron maiden')
puts "number of videos by tag iron maiden: " + videos.size.to_s

videos = youtube.videos_by_user('whytheluckystiff')
puts "number of videos by why: " + videos.size.to_s
puts "title: " + videos[0].title

videos = youtube.featured_videos
puts "number of featured videos: " + videos.size.to_s
puts "title: " + videos[0].title
puts "url: " + videos[0].url
puts "embed url: " + videos[0].embed_url
puts "embed html: \n" + videos[0].embed_html

details = youtube.video_details(videos[0])
puts "detailed description: " + details.description
puts "thumbnail url: " + details.thumbnail_url

TODO

• consider creating YouTubeException to raise on failures rather than just a string so that we can pass our request params back up to higher levels should they be interested.

• look into object types stored for comments and channel list and see if we're doing the Right/Best Thing. It looks like we've got hashes with one key e.g. "comments" that then map to a list of actual comments.

• add unit tests for client.videos_by_tag page and per_page params.

• add unit tests for specifying alternate api host/path in client constructor.

Authors

• Shane Vitarana shanev@gmail.com
• Walter Korman shaper@wgks.org
• Michael Grosser michael@grosser.it

This is a fork of the unmaintained http://rubyforge.org/projects/youtube/