Friday, March 2, 2012

[YouTube-API] Re: Restricted playback videos

Hello,

We have a blog post up talking about all the different types of
restrictions:

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2011/12/understanding-playback-restrictions.html

In this particular case, it sounds like you're running into number 5.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Feb 29, 1:40 pm, Tim Wintle <timwin...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I'd search the archives, because this kind of question pops up quite a
> lot.
>
> IIRC (it's been a while since I looked) the VideoEntry often includes
> some kind of restriction tag, the presence of it implies there are some
> kind of exclusions.
>
> I don't believe there's a way to do this perfectly though, just a lot of
> heuristics. I think it's a commonly requested issue that's on their
> backlog.
>
> You could probably catch the majority of videos you're going to see by
> checking what channel they belong to TBH.
>
> Tim Wintle
>
>
>
>
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>
> On Wed, 2012-02-29 at 18:25 +0000, Ben Scott wrote:
>
> > Hi Dennis -
>
> > Yep, I did try format=5 (and had another go with it now just to be
> > sure), and the videos are still showing up.
>
> > I've been looking around & have had no luck finding a fix for this. It
> > does seem odd though as it seems like it would be a common problem for
> > other people too.
>
> > Thanks for you help though,
>
> > Ben
>
> > On Wed, Feb 29, 2012 at 6:13 PM, Dennis Fischer
> > <chaosking0...@googlemail.com> wrote:
> >         Hey Ben,
> >         did you try format=5? - if it's not working there is probably
> >         no solution available.
> >         But I can't confirm this - Jeffrey may know it more exactly.
>
> >         Regards,
> >         Dennis Fischer
>
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