[YouTube-API] Re: Newbie: Getting started?

Hello Mark,

Take a look at this blog post:

http://apiblog.youtube.com/2012/02/video-uploads-from-your-sites-community.html

The YouTube Direct project that's mentioned in that post can handle
most of what you want to do, but there is some setup work required.

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


On Apr 24, 7:12 pm, Newbie 2012a <inbox.mirror.orbis...@gmail.com>
wrote:
> Hi
>
> I've been working on an ASP.NET/VB website that allows members to upload
> photos about certain topics, e.g. types of flowers. In this scenario, I have
>
> 1) A page that allows them to upload photos and tag them by flower type.
>
> 2) A page that displays up to 200 thumbnails (160x120) by flower type, e.g.
> all "Roses"
>
> Now I want to also allow them to upload videos.
>
> Questions:
>
> 1) What steps do I need to take to allow them to upload videos from my site
> (hosted by Youtube)? I have a button on each category page (e.g. "Tulips")
> labeled "Upload Videos" which when clicked takes them to the upload page?
>
> 2) Once a video is uploaded, can I immediately get its unique ID so I can
> store that in my site's SQL table so I can associate it with other
> properties I may choose, e.g. color, region, smell description?
>
> 2) How can I also include thumbnails of the uploaded videos along with my
> photo thumbnails?
>
> TIA
> Mark

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