[YouTube-API] Re: Retrieving_subscriptions with Thumbnails

Hello Ahmer,

Great! In case anyone else wants to do the same thing at some point
in the future, would you mind sharing the XML you ended up using? Like
I said, I don't have an example that I wrote myself to share.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
@YouTubeDev

On Feb 26, 9:51 am, Ahmer Munawar <isolatedper...@googlemail.com>
wrote:
> 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:
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> > Hello Ahmer,
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> >  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
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> >  http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users?v=2&prettyprint=true
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> > the correct URL to POST to is
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> >  http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/batch?v=2
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> >  I can't guarantee that the data in your <entry> tags are correct,
> > unfortunately. You might need to employ some trial and error here.
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> > Cheers,
> > -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> > groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> > @YouTubeDev
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> > On Feb 22, 9:04 am, Ahmer Munawar <isolatedper...@googlemail.com>
> > wrote:
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> > > Hi Jeff
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> > > 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:
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> > > 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
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> > > I tried this by making an http post request, but it didnt work
> > > url =http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/Google/subscriptions/batch
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> > > <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
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> > > Data API Protocol
> > > On Feb 22, 3:10 am, Jeffrey Posnick <je...@google.com> wrote:
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> > > > Hello Ahmer,
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> > > >  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
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> > > > On Feb 20, 4:29 am, Ahmer Munawar <isolatedper...@googlemail.com>
> > > > wrote:
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> > > > > Hi
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> > > > > 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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