Sunday, February 26, 2012

[YouTube-API] Re: Retrieving_subscriptions with Thumbnails

Thanks a lot Jeff, it was difficult earlier but i did it with your
help.

On Feb 25, 2:03 am, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
> Hello Ahmer,
>
>  I haven't written code to do this in the past, but in general you
> need to make sure that you're POSTing your request to the correct URL.
> In the case of the users feed, as per the <link rel='http://
> schemas.google.com/g/2005#batch'...> element in
>
>  http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users?v=2&prettyprint=true
>
> the correct URL to POST to is
>
>  http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/batch?v=2
>
>  I can't guarantee that the data in your <entry> tags are correct,
> unfortunately. You might need to employ some trial and error here.
>
> Cheers,
> -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> @YouTubeDev
>
> On Feb 22, 9:04 am, Ahmer Munawar <isolatedper...@googlemail.com>
> wrote:
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> > Hi Jeff
>
> > Thanks for your reply, so there is a way to get 50 user profiles in a
> > single request.
>
> > I tried doing everything to make batch request work but i failed, so i
> > hope that you could prove me a sample code or something that could
> > work for me:
>
> > I have following request, i want user profiles of first 3 entries, how
> > i make a batch request?http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/Google/subscriptions
>
> > I tried this by making an http post request, but it didnt work
> > url =http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/Google/subscriptions/batch
>
> > <feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom'
> >   xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/'
> >   xmlns:batch='http://schemas.google.com/gdata/batch'
> >   xmlns:yt='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007'>
> >   <batch:operation type='query'/>
> >   <entry>
> >     <id>tag:youtube.com,
> > 2008:user:Google:subscription:X7RMFNKroIVT2j3zlJcZK7MlFRH4BgyN4c2VbV-3XL4</
> > id>
> >   </entry>
> >   <entry>
> >     <id>tag:youtube.com,
> > 2008:user:Google:subscription:X7RMFNKroIVT2j3zlJcZK4YW__Hj8daKAdWFcCHyMjQ</
> > id>
> >   </entry>
> >   <entry>
> >     <id>tag:youtube.com,
> > 2008:user:Google:subscription:X7RMFNKroIVT2j3zlJcZKzB1OKJ55RvQuuaYZaLdc84</
> > id>
> >   </entry>
> > </feed>
>
> > Please help
> > Thanks once again
>
> > Data API Protocol
> > On Feb 22, 3:10 am, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
>
> > > Hello Ahmer,
>
> > >  The current best practice would be to request the user profile
> > > associated with each subscription, which will contain additional
> > > metadata about the user, such as their profile picture and complete
> > > name. You could use the batch processing API to retrieve a number of
> > > different user entries at once.
>
> > >  http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_pro...
> > >  http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_bat...
>
> > > Cheers,
> > > -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> > > groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> > > @YouTubeDev
>
> > > On Feb 20, 4:29 am, Ahmer Munawar <isolatedper...@googlemail.com>
> > > wrote:
>
> > > > Hi
>
> > > > I'm working on a mobile application that will display all the
> > > > subscriptions of a user (http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/
> > > > developers_guide_protocol_subscriptions.html#Retrieving_subscriptions)
> > > > in a list along with their Title Name, Thumbnail, number of
> > > > subscribers, and total video count.
>
> > > > Now problem is this api returns subscription without extra data such
> > > > as thumbnail, and proper name etc (gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/
> > > > username/subscriptions?v=2).
>
> > > > Please tell me how should i get subscriptions list along with
> > > > thumbnail etc, Any advises, best practices will do.
>
> > > > Thanks

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