Introduction

This library provides an easy-to-use set of wrapper classes to consume YouTube Data API Web Services. You can:

• search for videos by keywords, tags, and categories
• get access to the standard streams (for most popular videos by different criterias)
• get a persons full profile information
• get a video's comments
• get a video's responses
• get a person's favorites
• get a person's playlists
• get a person's subscriptions
• retreive a playlist

A Solution! (2008-04-22)

Read this blog post to see how I've decided to circumvent AS3's un-RESTful-ness : http://blog.martinlegris.com/?p=92 . This is good news, within a week you will have access to the full scope of the youtube data api! (except uploading videos... which will come later).

Important information about supporting the new features

I have tried, a month ago when the new API rollout happened, to implement the new features offered. However I ran into limitations of AS3 & Flash CS3. Here are the details: http://code.google.com/p/as3-youtube-data-api/wiki/LimitationsOfCS3

Details

• The library is based on a singleton Client called YouTubeClient.
• It provides feeds and iterators to go through the information received from the YouTube Data API.
• These iterators return hard-typed data objects which you can explore easily using your auto-complete IDE such as FlashDevelop, Flex IDE, Eclipse w/FDT, Intellij Idea or other.
• Each request sent through is identified by a requestId which you can use to filter the different responses you receive, ensuring you do manipulate the expected data.

Tutorials & Samples

• [2008-03-28] A new tutorial was posted on the google code website here: http://code.google.com/support/bin/answer.py?answer=92715&topic=12359.
• The first tutorial was posted here: http://blog.martinlegris.com/?p=83
• Some explanations on which events are thrown in which context by YouTubeClient can be found here: http://blog.martinlegris.com/?p=84
• Another sample, this one to consume a standard feed is shown here: http://blog.martinlegris.com/?p=81

Help Needed

• Although i've done a lot of testing, I realize it can be buggy. I would also need some help to document this beast of 35+ classes. If anyone is interested please let me (Martin) know.

Hope you enjoy it!

Martin