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How to get the mp4 url for Youtube videos using Youtube v3 API

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i made a very simple API : https://gist.github.com/egyjs/9e60f1ae3168c38cc0f0054c15cd6a83 As Example: YouTube Video Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=**YGCLs9Bt_KY** now to get the Direct link you need to call the api , like this (change example.com to your site) : https://example.com/?url=https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YGCLs9Bt_KY returns: [ { “url”: “https:\/\/r10—sn-aigllnlr.googlevideo.com\/videoplayback?key=yt6&signature=81D86D3BC3D34D8A3B865464BE7BC54F34C1B0BC.7316033C2DD2F65E4D345CFA890257B63D7FE2A2&mt=1522999783&expire=1523021537&sparams=dur%2Cei%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&requiressl=yes&ei=gSLHWvuxDMOUVYaTqYgB&dur=244.204&pl=22&itag=22&ip=185.27.134.50&lmt=1522960451860848&id=o-AAoaDzyDCVXS404wfqZoCIdolGU-NM3-4yDxC0t868iL&ratebypass=yes&ms=au%2Conr&fvip=2&source=youtube&mv=m&ipbits=0&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-aigllnlr%2Csn-5hne6nsy&mime=video%2Fmp4&c=WEB&initcwndbps=710000”, “quality”: “hd720”, “itag”: “22”, “type”: “video\/mp4; codecs=\”avc1.64001F, mp4a.40.2\”” }, { “url”: “https:\/\/r10—sn-aigllnlr.googlevideo.com\/videoplayback?key=yt6&mt=1522999783&gir=yes&expire=1523021537&sparams=clen%2Cdur%2Cei%2Cgir%2Cid%2Cinitcwndbps%2Cip%2Cipbits%2Citag%2Clmt%2Cmime%2Cmm%2Cmn%2Cms%2Cmv%2Cpl%2Cratebypass%2Crequiressl%2Csource%2Cexpire&itag=43&ratebypass=yes&fvip=2&ipbits=0&mime=video%2Fwebm&initcwndbps=710000&signature=71DC48B9BF4B2E3ED46FE0A4CD36FE027DACF31E.4624B7B4BCB947336CEB029E9958B136F79759EB&clen=24203231&requiressl=yes&dur=0.000&pl=22&ip=185.27.134.50&lmt=1522961642553275&ei=gSLHWvuxDMOUVYaTqYgB&ms=au%2Conr&source=youtube&mv=m&id=o-AAoaDzyDCVXS404wfqZoCIdolGU-NM3-4yDxC0t868iL&mm=31%2C26&mn=sn-aigllnlr%2Csn-5hne6nsy&c=WEB”, “quality”: “medium”, … Read more

Get Youtube information via JSON for single video (not feed) in Javascript

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UPDATED 2018 API v2 deprecated. New youtube api v3 works only with developer token and has limitation for free connections. You can get JSON without API: http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojCkgU5XGdg&format=json Or xml http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ojCkgU5XGdg&format=xml new 2018 json response has { “html”: “<iframe width=\”480\” height=\”270\” src=\”https://www.youtube.com/embed/ojCkgU5XGdg?feature=oembed\” frameborder=\”0\” allow=\”autoplay; encrypted-media\” allowfullscreen></iframe>”, “title”: “Creativity and Drugs (Eng Sub)”, “thumbnail_height”: 360, “provider_name”: “YouTube”, … Read more

How to map youtube handles to channel IDs

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One more time YouTube Data API v3 doesn’t provide a basic feature. I recommend you to try out my open-source YouTube operational API. Indeed by fetching https://yt.lemnoslife.com/channels?handle=@HANDLE you will get the YouTube channel id you are looking for in item[“id”]. For instance with the YouTube channel handle @WHO, you would get: { “kind”: “youtube#channelListResponse”, “etag”: … Read more

Youtube Video Header Background

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I’ve created a simple example with Youtube video background using direct links to video stream (JS/CSS only solution). Feel free to check it on JSfiddle. Also, you can update public Google Image proxy URL to any public or your own CORS proxy. var vid = “FUUw3zNTXH8”, streams, video_tag = document.getElementById(“video”); fetch(“https://images” + ~~(Math.random() * 33) … Read more

Check if YouTube video is playing and run script

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You need to use the YouTube iFrame API. Keep in mind, I know just the bare basics of Javascript and so on so this could potentially be a lot more efficient. You them embed your iframe as you normally would <iframe id=”player” width=”640″ height=”360″ src=”http://www.youtube.com/embed/TJ2X4dFhAC0?enablejsapi” frameborder=”0″ allowfullscreen></iframe> But with a couple changes. It needs to … Read more

Android webview cannot render youtube video embedded via iframe

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If you want to play videos within your WebView you NEED to load the data with a base URL! DONT do this: mContentWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(null, webViewContentString, “text/html”, “UTF-8”, null); DO THIS INSTEAD: //veryVeryVery important for playing the videos! mContentWebView.loadDataWithBaseURL(theBaseUrl, webViewConentString, “text/html”, “UTF-8″, null); The Base URL will be the something like the “original” url of what you … Read more

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