Im making a website with user-generated content (pictures/videos) and I want to host videos that users upload to youtube on my channel, is there any way I can do this via youtube api?
What are the best practices for such thing?
Thanks!
The best practice is not to allow uploads directly to your channel, but rather to upload them to an intermediary server where you have a tool that allows you to check the content for abuse before it programmatically uploads the video. This prevents abuse and keeps you using reasonable quota caps.
Another good idea is to allow users to upload to their own channels and, via your app, to use the playlist API to automatically add their videos to your playlist.
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I have ~300 vinyl records which I want to attach RFID tags to so I can place one on an RFID reader and trigger playback of the album on my home Sonos (using Google Play Music).
Is there a way to load a specified resource from a service into a group? I was able to follow through the Postman tutorial, and was maybe thinking that I could set up each album as a Sonos Favorite and load that, but I'm looking around and see that there is a (very low) limit on how many favorites you can have, so this doesn't seem like a workable solution anymore. I've been digging around the APIs and can't quite find what I'm looking for in the Control API.
Ideally I'd have each RFID tag contain something along the lines of artist name, album name, and some Google-Play-Music-specific album ID, which I can use to load the album into a fixed Sonos Group queue. If there's a better approach, however, I'm also all ears.
The Sonos API doesn't offer a way to load and play content from another service (other than commands in the favorites namespace) unless that service provides an interface to get the Sonos IDs without authentication. An alternative is to host your own files and build a SMAPI server or use a mediaUrl to your audio file in the track.
See the SMAPI sample server and Tracks in the cloud queue in Play audio (cloud queue) for details.
We're currently looking at using Vimeo Pro to upload videos for a website we're developing. What we want to do is, once a video is uploaded, record the data to an SQL database so we can embed the video to specific pages using database calls rather then hard coding.
So what I need to know is, can Vimeo return the code I need so I can record it?
To embed a video you need to generate an embed code through Vimeo's oEmbed endpoint.
The oEmbed endpoint works off of the on site Vimeo URL, which is provided in the "link" field on any video response (such as GET /videos/{video_id})
I would recommend storing the Vimeo URL, not the embed code, since the embed codes might change and improve over time.
I want to create an application capable to play YouTube video's audios and also save the downloaded content in a local cache, therefore when the user decides to resume or play the video again, then it doesn't have to download part of video again but only download the remaining part (User can decide what to do with the cache then, and how to organize it).
It is also very convenient for mobiles (it is my main focus) but I'd like to create a desktop one too for experimental purposes.
So, my question itself is, does YouTube provide any API for this? I mean, in order to cache the download content I need that my application download the content and not any embed player (also remember that it is a native application). I have a third-party application in my Android system that plays YouTube videos, so I think it's possible unless that the developers use some sort of hack, again this is what I don't know.
Don't confuse with the web gdata info API and the embed API, this is not what I want, what I want is to handle the video transfer.
As far as I know, there is no official API for that. However, you could use libquvi to look up the URLs of the real video data, or you could have a look at how they do it and reimplement it yourself (see here).
I'd like to know , whether we can Save, Delete, & Manage the Google+ Hangout Video Calls by using API? If yes, may I know which API?
It depends exactly what you mean by "save, delete, and manage", but in general the answer will be no.
The Hangout API is used for apps running inside the hangout itself. You can do some manipulation of the video stream, but there is no way to directly access the video itself.
If you are running this as a Hangout on Air, you may be able to use the YouTube Data API to mananage the recordings the way you want.
I want to allow users to store some videos on YouTube using my website. These videos are personal videos for the person storing them. The videos would presumably be transferred from my site to the YouTube site using the APIs. I would imagine all the videos would be stored in a single account (that I make as the site operator). It is important to note that the videos correspond to the individuals that save them - i.e. all users can't see all videos. The security access is done by my server and should not be accessible by anyone on the Internet.
A user must go through my website, enter his password, etc. (that I validate) and then I provide him access to his videos and once he is successfully authenticated, he can see his videos - that he views on my website.
Is this possible using YouTube or Vimeo APIs?
YouTube Direct API seems to be something similar to Your needs. Have a look at it.
Edit: Link, thanks #Simon.