Using Youtube Data API V3 to get videos of a channel

xCausxn

Hello All,

Im trying to get a list of videos from a channel using this API:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UCv7IjJclSgpfGUHnG171ovw&order=date&key=AIzaSyBpu8hgnXbkqFVWrAvwRUEz7T13ii3I7WM

Does anybody know how i can import this and parse this in javascript?

Thanks
xCausxn

P.S im building a html5 phone application using Intel XDK. If there are any other methods please let me know

julian

Using Node?

Use the request library to call the API endpoint, and parse the result as JSON

xCausxn

Preferably using standard website Javascript.

But i will look into using node

@julian

Schamper

Might not work with default browser JS due to the Cross Domain Policy.

jQuery.ajax has a crossDomain setting though, you can try and play with that.

xCausxn

Awesome will take a look

psychobunny

don't know if you've seen this but they've got a sample lib to call the youtube API... feels a little overcomplicated though

julian

@xcausxn The API endpoint example you posted also supports JSONP!

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UCv7IjJclSgpfGUHnG171ovw&order=date&key=AIzaSyBpu8hgnXbkqFVWrAvwRUEz7T13ii3I7WM&callback=foobar

Note the &callback=foobar I added. Now if you inject it into a script tag at the top of the page...

var scriptEl = document.createElement('script');

scriptEl.src = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&channelId=UCv7IjJclSgpfGUHnG171ovw&order=date&key=AIzaSyBpu8hgnXbkqFVWrAvwRUEz7T13ii3I7WM&callback=foobar';
document.head.appendChild(scriptEl);

... then it will call a the "foobar" function on the page, if available

I miss vanilla JS

xCausxn

@julian cool thanks