Youtube API Standard feeds On Website?

[railroadman]

Hi there,

I'm wondering If anyone can assist me. I am currently a design student In Leeds, UK.

I'm create a online campaign whereby customers use QR codes to link to a created website with interesting youtube video on.

At the moment I've just created a simple link to the chosen content

Website version 1

However I've come across Youtube API Standard feeds on the Youtube Reference Guide. Reference Guide: Data API Protocol - YouTube APIs and Tools - Google Code

It states you can 'send a GET request to the URL associated with that feed', however, I've never really touched php before. Could anyone give me advise on how I would link this feed to my site? Would that be difficult?

Many replies would be much appreciated!

Regards

David.

[GumSlone]

hi,

which informations would you like to grab from youtube api?

video description, tags, keywords title, views etc?

or

a list with related videos/top videos/ recently added videos or a playlist?

Added after 7 minutes:

to send a get request with php is simple, you can use curl or other methods:

<?php
$url = 'https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_popular'; /* youtube feed url with most popular videos */
    
$ch = curl_init();
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, $url);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_HEADER, 0);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_FAILONERROR, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, TRUE);
curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_CONNECTTIMEOUT, 3);
$feed_content = curl_exec($ch);
curl_close($ch);

echo $feed_content; // show the feed output

?>

or like this:

<?php
$url = 'https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/most_popular'; /* youtube feed url with most popular videos */
$feed_content = file_get_contents($url);
echo $feed_content; // show the feed output
?>

[warfrek]

This post gave me some idea. Thanks gumslone. Such a genius guy.