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

Hello,

The situation described at
https://groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata/browse_thread/thread/c075368399db9766#
remains, unfortunately.

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

On Apr 21, 3:57 pm, mrutuberobot <mrutubero...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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
> > groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> > @YouTubeDev
>
> > 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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