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package
{
   // first import dependencies (yes you can be more specific.. i'm lazy right now..!)
   import ca.newcommerce.youtube.data.*;
   import ca.newcommerce.youtube.events.*;
   import ca.newcommerce.youtube.feeds.*;
   import ca.newcommerce.youtube.iterators.*;
   import ca.newcommerce.youtube.webservice.YouTubeClient;
 
   public class ytTest()
   { 
        // some class variable
       protected var _ws:YouTubeClient;
       protected var _requestId:Number;
 
       public function ytTest()
       {
 
            // now inside of an init function
            _ws = YouTubeClient.getInstance();
 
            // register to list to the events you are interested in
            _ws.addEventListener(StandardVideoFeedEvent.STANDARD_VIDEO_DATA_RECEIVED, doVideos);
 
            // do your call.. get the Top Rated videos for the last month, results 1 to 10; it returns a callId
            _requestId = _ws.getStandardFeed(YouTubeClient.STD_TOP_RATED, YouTubeClient.TIME_MONTH, 1, 10);
       }
 
       protected function doVideos(evt:StandardVideoFeedEvent):void
       {
            // we could test to make sure this is the answer to our request by doing the following : 
            // if(_requestId == evt.requestId)
 
            // get a reference to the feed containing the videos
            var feed:VideoFeed = evt.feed;
 
            var video:VideoData;
 
            while(video = feed.next())
            {
                  // trace a newline followed by the video title
                  trace("\nvideo title:"+video.title);
 
                  // trace the url to use to embed the flash player with this video playing in it..
                  trace("player url:"+video.swfUrl);
 
                  // the view count
                  trace("viewCount:"+video.viewCount);
 
                  // the comment count
                  trace("commentCount:"+video.commentCount);
 
                  // the duration
                  trace("duration:"+video.duration);
 
                  // the author
                  trace("author:"+video.authors.first().name);
            }
       }
   }
}

10 comments on “Youtube Data API in AS3 is ready!”

1. gonzalo geraldo on March 27, 2008 at 1:49 pm said:

   Hi, im playing with the library and i have a few problems: in this code there is an error with line 48: video.viewCount.
   Throws me an error 1010

   another question: how can i to accede at the rating. Im trying with this in the while:

   video.rating.numRaters but it does’nt work

   thanks a lot and sorry for my english
2. mlegris on March 29, 2008 at 4:27 am said:

   Sometimes there is no data (for example in this case, if there are no ratings) returned by the feed, and it causes errors when trying to access it. It is a pretty serious issue I have to resolve. I am on vacation now, I will take care of it mid-april when I come back home.

   Thanks for your comments…
3. gonzalo Geraldo on March 31, 2008 at 3:45 pm said:

   Thanks for your answer and enjoy your vacation

   I verified on youtube to see if the video loaded it has rating and it fails too…

   its ok this expresion => video.rating.numRaters ??

   bye
4. Jason on May 3, 2008 at 1:13 am said:

   hi there – awesome work.
   I am attempting to pull an xml feed from a youTube user profile into Doug McCunes ‘coverFlow’ Flex component.

   I know you have looked at the Flex IDE – do you have any comments/thoughts as to how I might go about this?

   cheers,
   Jas
5. mlegris on May 23, 2008 at 1:22 pm said:

   Jason: sorry I don’t do Flex.
6. Jonprod on July 14, 2008 at 2:53 pm said:

   Martin — great work.
   Is it possible, now, to load an .flv from a videoID or do I have to load the .swf which would include all of the the standard next video stuff after the video has played.

   Thanks,
   Jon
7. billy Ash on July 27, 2008 at 3:04 pm said:

   Hi,,,
   i just wana know that if it is possible to get video by searching a youtube URL…means if i paste youTube URL into a text input field will it be possible to get all information about that specific page/video…

   thanks

   Regards

   Billy Ash
8. yolo on November 5, 2008 at 3:26 pm said:

   Hello

   I am using this AS3 class library load youtube thumbnail images into my flash interface. Now everything is working fine If I am running this on my computer locally but once I upload it to a live webserver it doesnot load the thumbnail images.

   Any idea of why this is not working is this something to do with AS3 security sandbox or other security related isseues?

   Thanks for your help in advance
9. Emmanuel on March 9, 2009 at 2:03 pm said:

   hi, I have the same issue yolo, does somebody know about this?

   When I put my site in my server, the player doesn’t show anything, I just can see y my navigator status bar the leyend “… waiting for…..
10. 8dot3 on July 28, 2009 at 1:29 pm said:

    Thanks for the hard work, probably going to use it for a client project this month.