• Youtube Feeds
• A Basic primer
• A couple of things that won't work with OSTV
• Interactive Feed Creator

Youtube Feeds

Youtube has an extensive api to generate xml for its content. If you want to get into the guts of it, go here:

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html#Video_Feeds

A Basic primer

adapted from:

http://googlesystem.blogspot.com/2008/01/youtube-feeds.html

1. Search feeds

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?vq=mapreduce

(replace mapreduce with your query)

2. Search in a category

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/-/Film/?vq=michel%20gondry&orderby=published

or

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?vq=michel%20gondry&orderby=published&category=Film

(Film is the category, while michel gondry is the query - you need to replace the space with %20. Other categories: Music, Comedy, News, Sports, Autos, Howto.)

3. The latest videos from a channel

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/radiohead/uploads?orderby=published

(replace radiohead with your channel)

...or only the videos that match your keywords:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/radiohead/uploads?orderby=published&vq=jigsaw

4. Feeds for favorite videos

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/lonelygirl15/favorites

(replace lonelygirl15's favorite videos)

Order your results

add to the query:

&orderby=published

or one of these values:

relevance(default), published, viewCount or rating

Get the amount of feed items you want

add to the query:

 &max-results=10

or another number

A couple of things that won't work with OSTV

If your feed has this:

&alt=rss

Remove it! That will generate a RSS feed. OSTV works with Youtube xml feeds.

If your feed looks like this:

 http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/...

or if there is anything else there besides api

change it to this:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/...

Interactive Feed Creator

Google has an Interactive Feed Creator at:

http://gdata.youtube.com/demo/index.html