To rival Hulu’s opening to the public, YouTube today opened up its API to developers allowing other web sites to be… like YouTube. Web sites can now allow their users to be on YouTube without leaving their sites. Other features of the opened APIs include: Upload videos and video responses to YouTube; Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, favorites, contacts, etc); Fetch localized standard feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) for 18 international locales; Perform custom queries optimized for 18 international locales; and Customize player UI and control video playback (pause, play, stop, etc.) through software.
Originally posted on March 12, 2008 @ 3:21 pm
I understand the concerns with copyright and farming, but I am disappointed to not see YouTube offer direct access to the FLV video file. It was definitely a step in the right direction to offer up a chromeless SWF, but there are too many limitations with that. I am really hoping that they take this to the next logical step.