I would like to suggest a little improvement for the YouTube API. When I query video data using the API via atom+xml, the number of comments are available in "countHint" as you see below:
<gd:comments><gd:feedLink rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#comments' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/THAvV30zjbU/comments' countHint='118'/></gd:comments>
Providing "countHint" as an attribute is very clever and bandwidth/quota-preserving :-) solution because not necessary to initiate a new GET operation using the "rel" attribute and parse the number of comment entries from the resulting xml.
I am wondering why this "countHint" attribute is missing for "Responses" and "Related Videos" as can be seen here:
<link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.responses' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/THAvV30zjbU/responses'/><link rel='http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007#video.related' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/THAvV30zjbU/related'/>
That would be so nice to get information about the number of responses and related videos through a "countHint" attribute here as well.
Hope this helps to make your API more accurate. :-))
Regards
TamasS
On Friday, March 2, 2012 5:33:53 PM UTC+1, Jeffrey Posnick wrote:
Hello,
This Google Group is intended for technical questions related to the
YouTube API. For general feedback or questions about the YouTube.com
website, your best bet is posting in the help forum at
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube
Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Feb 29, 1:10 pm, secret cherry <secretcherr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Group,
> I would like to suggest a new feature to make Youtube better.
> As a Youtube user I hang on Youtube day by day listening to my playlists. A
> recent update of Youtube was to be able to move videos in a playlist while
> the playlist is opened at the bottom of the browser and you can select
> different songs to be played from the playlist. However, I often
> experienced while I was watching videos that I would like to add some
> related videos to my already opened and already playing list. It would be a
> nice update to have if you could add related videos to your opened and
> already in playing playlist by just dragging and dropping them into the
> playlist interface. This update would make video adding to a playlist much
> easier. You should just drag the related video you want to add to a certain
> playlist and then just drop it to the opened playlist interface at the
> bottom. Youtube users add videos to their playlists by clicking on the
> related ones and selecting the right playlist to add the video to, and most
> users check related videos and choosing the next video to add from the
> related ones ( many users adds the video before they would have heard it
> once). Once when a video would be added to a playlist by the drag&drop
> update, that video should be viewed at least once even if the list owner
> would delete it later. This update would solve the problem of the fact ;
> that most people would like to view more than just one related video. They
> should just add all related video they are interested in and they can watch
> them whenever they want to.
On Friday, March 2, 2012 5:33:53 PM UTC+1, Jeffrey Posnick wrote:
Hello,--
This Google Group is intended for technical questions related to the
YouTube API. For general feedback or questions about the YouTube.com
website, your best bet is posting in the help forum at
http://www.google.com/support/forum/p/youtube
Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
@YouTubeDev
On Feb 29, 1:10 pm, secret cherry <secretcherr...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Dear Group,
> I would like to suggest a new feature to make Youtube better.
> As a Youtube user I hang on Youtube day by day listening to my playlists. A
> recent update of Youtube was to be able to move videos in a playlist while
> the playlist is opened at the bottom of the browser and you can select
> different songs to be played from the playlist. However, I often
> experienced while I was watching videos that I would like to add some
> related videos to my already opened and already playing list. It would be a
> nice update to have if you could add related videos to your opened and
> already in playing playlist by just dragging and dropping them into the
> playlist interface. This update would make video adding to a playlist much
> easier. You should just drag the related video you want to add to a certain
> playlist and then just drop it to the opened playlist interface at the
> bottom. Youtube users add videos to their playlists by clicking on the
> related ones and selecting the right playlist to add the video to, and most
> users check related videos and choosing the next video to add from the
> related ones ( many users adds the video before they would have heard it
> once). Once when a video would be added to a playlist by the drag&drop
> update, that video should be viewed at least once even if the list owner
> would delete it later. This update would solve the problem of the fact ;
> that most people would like to view more than just one related video. They
> should just add all related video they are interested in and they can watch
> them whenever they want to.
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