[YouTube-API] Re: Handling errors in youtube data api in javascript

Hello Burak,

Our alt=jsonc format seems to handle this scenario better:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/zkZBEnBjOjY?callback=jsonp1335008664915&alt=jsonc&v=2

Also, CORS/XMLHTTPRequest Level 2 support is just around the corner,
and that's a much cleaner way of doing this sort of thing:

https://code.google.com/p/gdata-issues/issues/detail?id=2233

Cheers,
-Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
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On Apr 21, 8:43 am, Burak Emre Kabakcı <emrekaba...@gmail.com> wrote:
> One of the successful load is like that:
>
> http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/N7m86aMNjlQ?callback=jsonp1...
>
> However, when the video is private or doesn't exist, it returns just a
> message with an http error status code.
>
> http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/zkZBEnBjOjY?callback=jsonp1...
>
> I create an example unique callback function name like "jsonp1335008664824"
> and append the url as a script tag and catch the function when the script
> loaded. However if it returns an error, youtube doesn't return the content
> as a callback function and I can't catch any of them. Because script tag
> doesn't have "onerror" attribute, I don't even know whether it's loading or
> returned an error like 404 or 503 status codes.
>
> It seems the only whay to handle it is setting timeout function when I
> append script tag. However it's not a reliable way to do that so I'm
> looking for another option. I know that even I can catch the status code, I
> can't get error message but as I see, there's only two status code and two
> errors that are 404 for "Video not found" or 503 for "Video is private".

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