[YouTube-API] Re: multiple users uploading video on youtube channel

Hello Aditya,

That would normally not be the way to go, especially if the people
doing the uploads are random users you might not trust, or if the
volume of uploads is potentially significant. The recommended approach
would be to have each user authenticate as themselves (using AuthSub
or OAuth) and upload into their own distinct YouTube account. You
could use something like developer tags or playlists to aggregate all
the uploaded videos.

There's an open source project we provide, YouTube Direct, which
handles a lot of that complexity for you:

http://code.google.com/p/youtube-direct/

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Jan 3, 12:20 am, Aditya Vashistha <adityavashistha.j...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I want multiple users to upload videos on a youtube channel.
>
> Q1. Multiple users can upload to same account?
>
> If I have to identify who out of all N users uploaded the video, I can
> set the user id somewhere in the uploaded video information. For
> example, while uploading a video, I can set the first keyword to the
> id of user who uploaded the video. On reading the video feed from the
> channel, I can always determine who among all N users uploaded the
> video on the channel.
>
> Q2: Is this approach okay?
> Q3: Is there a sophisticated method to achieve the desired
> functionality?
>
> Please provide your inputs.
>
> Thanks!

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