YouTube Data API finding Official Artist Channels - youtube-data-api

I'm working on an app and I am trying to find the best way to get music videos (videoCategoryId 10) but only from Official Artist Channel.
I've been doing research on the best way to do this, but haven't been successful.
If anyone has a workaround or know how to determine official Artist Channels, can you please share?

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How to get membership related information by using YoutubeDataAPI

I want to use the Youtube API to determine if a video is membership-only or not.
I tried to find out the actual video information using YoutubeAPI's videos, channels, playlists, etc., but it doesn't seem to contain any information related to membership.
Is there any good idea?
One more time YouTube Data API v3 doesn't provide a basic feature.
I would suggest you to use my open-source YouTube operational API, indeed by requesting https://yt.lemnoslife.com/videos?part=isMemberOnly&id=VIDEO_ID you would get a JSON with the boolean value interesting you in item['isMemberOnly'].

YouTube Livestream Update Script

I've been searching here and across the web for a bash script that leverages the YouTube API to update the Title, Description, Playlist, Category and Thumbnail given a YouTube livestream video ID. My preference is to do this using bash/curl to keep it simple, but I've been unable to make any progress.
I've seen this question asked a few times, but the feedback given over the last couple years has been a redirect to the YouTube API documentation which I've gone through thoroughly, but have been unsuccessful in achieving the outcome described above.
Looking forward to any help you can provide.

Uploading video to Youtube to a master account

I need to have people sending videos directly to my customer's Youtube account.
My customer doesn't want to have people login with their own Youtube account. This has to be transparent for people so they are not forced to have a Youtube account to send videos.
I found several solutions like Youtube Direct lite or the Youtube Widget but this is not exactly what they need as it force them to log to their own account... Same with Youtube API and OAuth2...
Is there any solution with the YouTube Data API v3 even if this is not really "best practice"
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(I'm using PHP on Codeigniter)
Best regards.
I've just done a search on Google and found
http://tuts.stackarena.com/2013/03/uploading-videos-to-youtube-from-your-website-in-php/
It may also be worth checking out https://developers.google.com/youtube/ for additional resources, usually you find Google will have a solution for your needs.
Good luck

how to show a youtube video into WP7 application?

I want to develop a WP7 application. In this one, I would like to get video from youtube. For example, videos of a channel.
So, I know, I need youtube API, but I don't find a simple example to subscribe a channel and receive the latest video...
Is it possible ?
Thanks in advance , have a nice day !
I think there are simple RSS feeds for each channel... If there are no RSS feeds, parse the HTML feed (e.g. http://www.youtube.com/user/nokia/feed)
To play youtube videos, see
http://mytoolkit.codeplex.com/wikipage?title=YouTube
WP7 currently doesn't have a standard media layer for YouTube videos and you need the YouTube app in order to be able to play those. Unless you want to work on a low level with the encoding format used by YouTube, but then again - you would have to implement a decoding service.
To play a youtube Video you need to use the WebBrowserTask and open the target URL in the browser; if the youtube app is installed, it will play, if not installed, it will prompt the user to install and then play.
How to subscribe ?
I don't think if it's possible to make that directly from your app...

Possible to play Youtube video in a wp7 app?

is it possible to play youtube videos in a wp7 application? I would guess you could retrieve the video file from the youtube api and Perhaps play it using a media element? Any suggestion, tips or resources would be appreciated.
That's a great question and really goes to the heart of YouTube's business model, YouTube's API and WP7 Integration.
Short answer: To a limited extend it could be possible to play low-quality videos in WP7.
The first question you should ask yourself is: "What is Google?" The answer is "An Ad serving company". The overwhelming majority of Google & YouTube's revenue stream comes exclusively from advertisements. If you were to take YouTube's content and serve it on your own website/app without any YouTube branding or ads, that would works against their financial business model.
The second question you should ask yourself is: "So how is iPhone showing YouTube videos? And WP7? Or YouTube website itself for that matter?". This goes into the heart of YouTube's media delivery system. YouTube publicly exposes multiple formats from their website. For example format #1 is H263, Format #6 is MPEG and Format #5 is the SWF/FLV content. You can read more about YouTube Formats in their official documentation.
And now, to answer your question. YouTube API only exposes thumbnail size videos for unauthorized 3rd parties and those could potentially be showed in WP7 in-app. However the video quality will be terrible if scaled up for more than 1/4 of the WP7 screen resolution.
I suggest you read through the GData YouTube developer guide for information on the API. I'll do a quick run-through of how to get to those public videos. Personally, I haven't been successful in getting these 3GP videos to work on WP7.
Open up the GData feed for top rated videos: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/top_rated
from the < entry /> element find the < id /> element which should have a link to single video GData feed. I picked up this one: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/dMH0bHeiRNg
find the < media:content /> elements with yt:format attributes.
< media:content url='http://www.youtube.com/v/dMH0bHeiRNg?f=videos&app=youtube_gdata' type='application/x-shockwave-flash' medium='video' isDefault='true' expression='full' duration='360' yt:format='5'/>
< media:content url='rtsp://v5.cache7.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQnYRKJ3bPTBdBMYDSANFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp' type='video/3gpp' medium='video' expression='full' duration='360' yt:format='1'/>
< media:content url='rtsp://v3.cache8.c.youtube.com/CiILENy73wIaGQnYRKJ3bPTBdBMYESARFEgGUgZ2aWRlb3MM/0/0/0/video.3gp' type='video/3gpp' medium='video' expression='full' duration='360' yt:format='6'/>
Open up "VLC Player" with format #6 URL and you should see the RTSP stream player.
** This whole post should be considered "As far as I know". This is all knowledge I gleamed from official YouTube documentation and forums.
Quoting from the Windows Phone Developer FAQ
How can I play youtube videos in my app?
Use the WebBrowserTask and open the target URL in the browser; if the youtube app is installed, it will play, if not installed, it will prompt the user to install and then play.
No, you can't play it via standard API methods. A similar question was asked before. WP7 currently doesn't have a standard media layer for YouTube videos and you need the YouTube app in order to be able to play those. Unless you want to work on a low level with the encoding format used by YouTube, but then again - you would have to implement a decoding service.

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