[YouTube-API] Re: API field size limitations not in UI?

Hello Paul,

There are some other upload paths into YouTube besides the API, and
it's definitely possible that they have different restrictions on the
lengths of various fields than the API does, as there is the potential
for the codebases to get out of sync. Like I said, if you have a
specific example of a restriction that is different in the API than in
another upload path, I can ask the API team about it and it could
potentially be relaxed in the API.

On Apr 30, 9:20 pm, Paul Philion <phil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> Jeff,
>
> I have a customer that claims they can get around the API restrictions
> using the FTP uploader. I think they might be a YouTube Content Manager
> customer. I don't have access to those tools (or docs) to verify.
>
> Could that be the situation?
>
> Thanks,
>
> - Paul
>
>
>
>
>
>
>
> On Monday, April 16, 2012 4:35:02 PM UTC-4, Jeffrey Posnick wrote:
>
> > Hello Paul,
>
> >  There's no way around the restrictions on lengths imposed by the API.
> > They certainly were in sync with the metadata restrictions imposed on
> > uploads taking place via the website at one point in time, and I'm
> > assuming that they still are. But if you have a specific example of a
> > different restriction being imposed on uploads via the website I'll
> > try to investigate further, and see if the API's restrictions could be
> > relaxed.
>
> > Cheers,
> > -Jeff Posnick, YouTube API Team
> > groups.google.com/group/youtube-api-gdata | apiblog.youtube.com |
> > @YouTubeDev
>
> > On Apr 9, 3:27 pm, Paul Philion <phil...@gmail.com> wrote:
> > > Greetings,
>
> > > According to the API docs (see below), there are limits on the length of
> > > the title, description and keywords when uploading/updating a video
> > using
> > > the API.
>
> > >https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/reference#youtube_data_api_...
>
> > >https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/reference#youtube_data_api_...
>
> > >https://developers.google.com/youtube/2.0/reference#youtube_data_api_...
>
> > > We have had complaints from customers that the same restrictions do not
> > > exist using the web-based UI directly.
>
> > > Is it true that restrictions exist in the API that do not exist in the
> > UI,
> > > placing limits on our application that do not exist in the YouTube UI?
> > Is
> > > there anyway around this restriction?
>
> > > Thanks,
>
> > > - Paul Philion

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