I’m starting a project to remodel the video section on my blog to be more like the photos section. I’d like to have albums of videos just as I have albums of photos. The logical way to group videos with YouTube is by using playlists. There is a function in the YouTube API which allows you to list the videos in a given playlist (youtube.videos.list_by_playlist). However, there is no documented method which allows you to list the playlists for a given user. This seems like an obvious disconnect in the api.
I did a little digging and just found the undocumented api function for getting a list of playlists by user:
Parameters
method: youtube.videos.list_by_playlist (only needed as an explicit parameter for REST calls)
dev_id: Your developer ID. Please request one if you don’t already have one.
id: The ID of the playlist
Example Call
youtube.users.list_playlists&dev_id=dev_id&user=user
Example Response
<playlists_list>
<playlists>
<id>6DB8A9C8E90E54C9</id>
<name>Hawaii</name>
<description>All videos taken in Hawaii</description>
<type>0</type>
<status>0</status>
<keywords>Hawaii oahu maui kauai big-island</keywords>
<video_count>6</video_count>
<is_vlog>True</is_vlog>
</playlists>
</playlists_list>
</ut_response>
Obviously, this hasn’t been released in the official YouTube API yet, so use it at your own risk.
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