How to Work With Google's API on YouTube

API stands for application programming interface, which is a code that allows interface between an operating system, such as Windows, and third party applications. Google's YouTube API enables applications to work on websites that normally function on YouTube. The API lets your application search YouTube for videos, get video feeds, upload videos to YouTube, update videos and find user profiles, play lists and subscriptions. Read on to learn how to work with Google's API on YouTube.

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Challenging

1. Read the documentation provided by Google for developers at Code.google.com. This information gives you everything you need to know as a developer about how the Google API functions. Subtopics include "Understanding Video Feeds and Entries," "Uploading Videos," "Retrieving and Searching for Videos" and "Enabling User Interaction."
2. Familiarize yourself with the Google API libraries sample codes. Tools are provided in the libraries for Java, PHP and Objective-C, including Getting Started and User guides, and sample codes for each language.
3. Register with Google for a developer key. This grants you authenticated access to the Google YouTube API.
4. Use the Google YouTube player API to customize the YouTube player environment. Detailed information on this capability is provided in the "JavaScript Player API Reference" and the YouTube "chromeless player" reference in Google's code and API developer tools.