http://base-art.net/Articles/87/ <p>Google has been providing a <a class="reference" href="http://code.google.com/apis/gdata/index.html">GData</a> API to Youtube since a few months now, this is quite cool because it allows applications like <a class="reference" href="http://www.gnome.org/projects/totem/">Totem</a> to access videos stored at Youtube.</p> <p>So I wrote a little Python wrapper using <a class="reference" href="http://code.google.com/p/gdata-python-client/">python-gdata</a> to ease access to that nice API, especially video thumbnails and direct FLV urls. It's called <a class="reference" href="http://svn.pythonfr.org/public/pythonfr/video/youtube_client.py">YoutubeClient</a>, here's a little example:</p> <pre class="literal-block"> cli = YouTubeClient() for video in cli.recently_featured(): thumb_url = cli.get_largest_thumbnail(video) flv_url = cli.get_flv_video_url(video.link[1].href) print video.title.text, thumb_url, flv_url </pre> <p>Right now, what you can do is:</p> <ul class="simple"> <li>access standard feeds: recently_featured, most_viewed, top_rated</li> <li>browse Youtube tags</li> <li>access user-centric data: uploaded_videos, contacts, favorite_videos</li> </ul> <p>This is really fun to use and would make a nice <a class="reference" href="http://elisa.fluendo.com">Elisa</a> plugin... Any volunteer? :)</p> <p>Next episode, accessing your Picasaweb data</p> en The contents of this blog are available for non-commercial use only. Alinea http://pythonfr.org/alinea/ http://base-art.net/Comments/231/ http://base-art.net/Comments/231/ phil 2007-11-03T13:43:10Z http://base-art.net/Comments/230/ http://base-art.net/Comments/230/ Jkx 2007-11-03T13:24:20Z