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= YouTube

A pure Ruby object-oriented interface to the YouTube REST API documented
at http://www.youtube.com/dev.

API access requires a developer id.  You can obtain one for free at
http://www.youtube.com/my_profile_dev.

The RubyForge project is at http://rubyforge.org/projects/youtube.

The Google Group to discuss issues and bugs is at http://groups.google.com/group/ruby-youtube-library?hl=en.

== About

Implements version 2 of YouTube's API.

== Installing

Install the gem via:

  % gem install youtube

== Usage

An example as:

  require 'rubygems'
  require 'youtube'

  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

Version data entries

2 entries across 2 versions & 1 rubygems

Version	Path
youtube-0.8.5	README
youtube-0.8.6	README