[YouTube-API] Re: Getting ServiceForbiddenException while retrieving a user's contact for the last five days

Hi Jeff,

Thanks for the clarification which explains the behavior recently.

However, I found another issue with the default contacts (i.e. contacts for the logged in users).  The API works for the default as you know but it only returns upto 5000 contacts even though I know my channel has about a lot more.  Is that a recent cap from YouTube or, a bug in the code ?

Regards,
Mohammed

On Thursday, April 19, 2012 3:37:45 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Posnick wrote:

Hello Mohammed,

 So yes, this does appear to be due to a change on the YouTube side of
things. As per the docs:

"""
This request does not require authentication, but you will only be
able to retrieve the contacts of users who display the Friends module
on their channel pages. (If a user's contacts are displayed on the
user's channel, then the user is already making the contact list
public, and YouTube therefore allows API clients to access that same
information.)

If you try to retrieve contacts for a specific user who does not
display the Friends module on his channel, the API will return a 403
(Forbidden) HTTP response.
"""

 And the Friends module no longer seems to be available, so it's no
longer possible to retrieve that information via the API. I'll let the
team responsible for our documentation know to make that explicit.

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Apr 19, 10:30 am, mrutuberobot <mrutubero...@gmail.com> wrote:
> The default (i.e. logged in user's contact) works however if you put
> another user other than default (i.e. try ihindihd or any other), it always
> returns "Currenly authenticated user does not have access to these
> contacts".  This used to work last week and before.
>
> Please help!
>
> Thanks,
> Mohammed
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Friday, April 13, 2012 11:41:54 AM UTC-4, mrutuberobot wrote:
>
> > The simple YouTube Data Java API example provided at "https://
> > developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/
> > developers_guide_java#Enabling_user_interaction<http://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_java#Enabli...>"
> > to "Retrieving a
> > user's contacts" is throwing "ServiceForbiddenException".  This used
> > to work last week.  Here is my code below as per the example code
> > above:
>
> >         try {
> >             String profile = "GoogleDevelopers";
> >             String feedUrl = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/
> > users/ <http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/>" + profile +
> > "/contacts";
>
> >             FriendFeed friendFeed = service.getFeed(new URL(feedUrl),
> > FriendFeed.class);
>
> >             for (FriendEntry friendEntry : friendFeed.getEntries()) {
> >                 System.out.print("Friend: " +
> > friendEntry.getUsername());
> >                 System.out.println(", Status:" +
> > friendEntry.getStatus().toString());
> >             }
> >         } catch (Exception e) {
> >             e.printStackTrace();
> >         }
>
> > Please help as our software is not working and getting lots of
> > complain from the customers.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Mohammed
> On Friday, April 13, 2012 11:41:54 AM UTC-4, mrutuberobot wrote:
>
> > The simple YouTube Data Java API example provided at "https://
> > developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/
> > developers_guide_java#Enabling_user_interaction<http://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_java#Enabli...>"
> > to "Retrieving a
> > user's contacts" is throwing "ServiceForbiddenException".  This used
> > to work last week.  Here is my code below as per the example code
> > above:
>
> >         try {
> >             String profile = "GoogleDevelopers";
> >             String feedUrl = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/
> > users/ <http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/>" + profile +
> > "/contacts";
>
> >             FriendFeed friendFeed = service.getFeed(new URL(feedUrl),
> > FriendFeed.class);
>
> >             for (FriendEntry friendEntry : friendFeed.getEntries()) {
> >                 System.out.print("Friend: " +
> > friendEntry.getUsername());
> >                 System.out.println(", Status:" +
> > friendEntry.getStatus().toString());
> >             }
> >         } catch (Exception e) {
> >             e.printStackTrace();
> >         }
>
> > Please help as our software is not working and getting lots of
> > complain from the customers.
>
> > Thanks,
> > Mohammed

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