« You Tube Flash AS3 / AS2 API»

1. jer 13.10.07

   excellent !
2. Pedro G 06.11.07

   Hi. I very happy with yours ytAPI implementation. I’m just curious about what’s going to happen if flashdinamix.com gets offline… I may be unable to connect to youtube via this API since I couldn’t acess http://www.youtube.com/api2_rest directly by GET method since Flash’s Sandbox violation doesn’t allow my script to do it.

   Any help?
3. aSnO® 06.11.07

   Thanks for the files, I was looking for this API a long time ago, I’m working on a web project, when I finish it I will send you the link so you will see how you helped me on the project.

   Sorry for my bad english, saludos from COLOMBIA
4. Shane McCartney 06.11.07

   Hey Pedro
   In the zip download are the files to proxy the communications (asp.Net) with the YouTube API , this is the intended way to use this example.
5. Pedro G 09.11.07

   Hi Shane

   Thanks for replying.

   It seems that today (nov 08 19:55GMT) the URL for get_video (”http://74.125.15.85/get_video?video_id=”) stop working.

   Do you know what this is? A friend told me that it’s google videos’ cache page, but i’m not 100% on that.

   Have any clue of what’s going on?
6. Pedro G 09.11.07

   Well… I’ve tried “http://cache.googlevideo.com/get_video…”
   and it worked!!

   Hope that works forever.
   Any tips? Please reply.
7. Marcio 09.11.07

   HI, it seems that is no longer working, i did test it, but with no sucess. I also have another version of this, made by me, yesterday it worked but now ( 08- 11 -2007 ) it isn´t. Maybe youtube changed something. :(
8. Shane McCartney 11.11.07

   Hi guys,

   I have come up with a better solution for the AS3 version of the You Tube Flash API, download an update with the link above. If you need the AS2 version updated let me know and I will get to this for you.

   Shane M
9. aSnO® 12.11.07

   I’ve been testing the as2 version and It doesn’t work, can you help me telling me what to do to make it work?
10. aSnO® 12.11.07

    can anybody gimme a link with the example in as2 working?
11. aSnO® 12.11.07

    Hi Shane, can you upload the actionscript 2 example working? just the same as the example with as3… thank you and excuse my bad english
12. Shane McCartney 12.11.07

    No problem aSnO I will update the AS2 version shortly, though I do recommend using the AS3 version
13. aSnO® 12.11.07

    Thank you Shane, I know it’s better using the as3 version, but I can’t do It because the application I’m working on it’s enterely made in as2. I’ll be reviewing this post waiting for your solution, thanks again
14. Shane McCartney 12.11.07

    The AS2 version is now also updated from the source download above.
15. aSnO® 14.11.07

    Thank you again shane, It really works, This is the last time I’m working with as2. I’ll send you the link when I finish the app.

    Gracias y saludos desde Colombia
16. Pedro G 15.11.07

    Yes, Shane. Thanks again.
    Hope this time it works forever…

    I’m working on a PHP version of yours aspx files, if I can make it right, I’ll send you the code so you can share, since your site is easy to find when searching for youtube api…

    I’m working on a astonishing surf-videos site, when it goes online I’ll send you a link and maybe your name will apear on the thanks page… :)

    This time, thanks from Brasil!
17. Shane McCartney 15.11.07

    Hi Pedro
    Send through the link once the site is done always interesting to see what other people are working on. As well I would be happy to supply alternatives to the .net code with PHP so if you’re happy to share this so am I.
18. Pedro G 20.11.07

    Hello again Shane.

    I was wondering if you tried load the youtube videos directly onto a FLVPlayback component, or are you using a NetStream object since the beggining.

    I think that the .flv extension that is missing on the get_video URL makes the component to break (or just don’t load).

    Pedro.
19. Shane McCartney 21.11.07

    I can’t comment on using Adobe components as I dont use them. Though a quick check on the documentation says on the FLV source parameter ’source:String (default = null) — A string that specifies the URL of the FLV file to stream and how to stream it. The URL can be a local path, an HTTP URL to an FLV file, an RTMP URL to an FLV file stream, or an HTTP URL to an XML file. It is optional, but the source property must be set either through the Component inspector or through ActionScript or this method has no effect. ‘
20. aSnO® 26.11.07

    Hi Shane, me again.
    I need to play videos from a datagrid which its data provider comes from the database. I mean any person that administrates the database just gives the video id, I made it work but not as I want, because I couldn’t get the video information this way (description and the rest of info), I don’t know if you understand me. I’m testing it in this url: http://www.emage-nation.com/ciclon/
    In the button “GALERIA”
    Note the first datagrid that appears there, the one with the blue style applied. That datagrid brings me the id of the video. So, with this id, what can I do to get the rest of video info directly from youtube and make it play well?

    Thank you very much and excuse me for my english…
21. Michael 07.12.07

    Love your code and above example. Its pretty much what i want to do but I dont know how you extract the video id or where you get it from as you haven’t provided the code behind files. I know you pass through the webpage and obviously search that page for something but I don’t know what. I search for the id but it is not in there. Do you decode it somehow in your file. If you could let me know that would be great and then i can create my own server side pages. Thanks in advance, the code is really cool.

    Cheers

    M
22. icio 07.12.07

    How do I tell the script to search by itslef the videos of a cetain user so it will automatically show the list of videos of that user without typing it and click “GO”?

    Great script!
23. Shane McCartney 07.12.07

    Hi Michael

    Email me on the email address below and I can send you the c# code.

    Shane M
24. Shane McCartney 07.12.07

    Hey Icio

    If you want it to automatically do a search then just call the search method straight away rather than on the button click like I have.

    Shane M
25. icio 08.12.07

    Hey Shane.

    Will you share “getVideoId.aspx”, so I can put It on my server and skip queries to your website all the time that I use this script?
26. Shane McCartney 08.12.07

    Icio
    getVideoId.aspx is in the source download files above, there is also a dll file - YouTube.dll that you will need to place in the bin directory.

    Shane M
27. aSnO® 09.12.07

    Hi Shane, me again.
    I need to play videos from a datagrid which its data provider comes from the database. I mean any person that administrates the database just gives the video id, I made it work but not as I want, because I couldn’t get the video information this way (description and the rest of info), I don’t know if you understand me. I’m testing it in this url: http://www.emage-nation.com/ciclon/
    In the button “GALERIA”
    Note the first datagrid that appears there, the one with the blue style applied. That datagrid brings me the id of the video. So, with this id, what can I do to get the rest of video info directly from youtube and make it play well?

    Thank you very much and excuse me for my english…
28. Sean 09.01.08

    Great Job!

    I am using flash 8, however the file included in the AS2 folder of youTube.zip won’t open in Flash 8. Is it possible to include or send me a Flash 8 compatible version?
29. Shane McCartney 09.01.08

    Hi Sean
    I have saved the FLA for the YouTube AS2 version to Flash 8 and reuploaded the zip. Enjoy!
    Shane M
30. spock 25.01.08

    Hi, error on script cant play movie
31. Shane McCartney 26.01.08

    Thanks Spock
    To fix this you will need to update with the latest YouTube.dll in the zip download.

    Shane M
32. spock 27.01.08

    ok thanks ;) great job man.. and you share it.. that is great.. sorry my english is bad :$
33. Shane McCartney 27.01.08

    No problem Spock
    thanks for pointing out to me that the YouTube API had changed. If you feel so inclined feel free to donate as this helps me to keep giving the free stuff :)

    Shane M
34. spock 27.01.08

    hi Shane,
    I am still a student :( and i havent so much money but if i earn my self money than can i donate for you
35. Shane McCartney 27.01.08

    Np spock, feel free to post to me the result then of using the code
36. Roy Hovden 06.02.08

    Hi! This is such a great source you have provided for us here! I’m working on getting this over to flash 7 on “Windows Mobile” I’ve managed to port it, the sound is great, but the video has only a couple of frames per second on some and 10 or so on the “best ones”. Maybe this has to do with device video drivers, I don’t know, but do you have any tips on how I can improve on these things. I’ve reduced the actionscript quite a bit.

    Any small hints would be gold value to the “windows mobile” enthusiasts. thanks!
37. Roy Hovden 06.02.08

    And I forgot, what are those dll’s for?
    thanks!
38. Shane McCartney 06.02.08

    Hi Roy,
    I haven’t done any testing using FLV’s with Flash Lite. I am interested though is the frame rate performance related to the length/dimension of the video ? which means longer/ larger the FLV then the flash player would need more memory allocated to it to play it.

    An ideal way of loading the FLV would be through Flash Media Server but uncertain wether this is a possibility for you.

    Shane M
39. Roy Hovden 09.02.08

    Hi Shane,
    It’s not flash lite, it’s flash 7 as2 :)

    On the videos that are actually “watchable” the framerate seems to go up and down abit. Larger videos seems to skip more.

    Is there any way to download the videos to a “temp file”, before playing? I think the streaming takes too much processing power from the windows mobile

    Thanks!
40. Roy Hovden 09.02.08

    New info:
    the “video” seems to be playing after the sound is finished
41. Ronny 09.02.08

    Hello,

    first let me say thank you for this wonderful script, I’m very existed about that. But I’ve got a question.

    If I remember correctly there was a php proxy script in the package some time ago but now there isn’t.

    My question is… (Why) did you remove this script? Are there any errors or problems with that?

    I don’t have asp and it would be great if you could bring the php proxy script back…

    Thank you!
    Ronny
42. Shane McCartney 11.02.08

    Hi Ronny
    this code was supplied to me by another developer but recently there were some changes on YouTube so I have removed this code because I only code C# and updated this version only.

    Shane M
43. Shane McCartney 11.02.08

    Hi Roy
    Sounds like this is definately a memory issue due to the phone and flash player. Even though youre using Flash 7 AS2 you must be using the Flash Lite Player ? As this is the Flash Player which is best used on mobile devices or so I thought. Maybe you would find this interesting http://www.adobe.com/products/flashlite/version/
44. Roy Hovden 13.02.08

    Thank you so much for your answer.

    The flash lite 2.1 (Which is the latest on Windows mobile) doesn’t support flv files or rtmp streaming. Flash 7 however does that.

    Finding a way to download the flv file instead of streaming it would probably be a good way to get around the problem.

    My windows mobile has 400 mhz and 128 mb rams. so it should be able to handle it at a reasonable framerate (at least 15 fps).
45. Ronny 14.02.08

    Thank you for your reply, Shane! I’ve searched on my old hdd and find an older release which included the php files. The getVideoId.php didn’t work for more, but the proxyScript does.

    I’ve spent some time, looked at your new youtube response and made some changes on the script. Now the getVideoId script works fine, too.

    I can send you the script if you want. And if I got the permission. I’m sure there are a lot of persons out there who can’t or don’t use C#.

    Ronny
46. Shane McCartney 14.02.08

    Thanks send it through and will revise with this version.

    Shane M
47. igr 19.02.08

    hey Shane,

    this sure is very interesting and very useful. Could you share the code of the dll with us ? Many people cannot use dlls or simply don’t like the idea of having to use an unknown binary.

    Thanks
48. Shane McCartney 19.02.08

    Hi igr

    There is the PHP source in there for a language which uses uncompiled code.

    Shane M
49. spock 23.02.08

    Hi Shane,

    how can i make it with playlist? Can you please help me..?

    Spock
50. mike 26.02.08

    Hey Shane! Awesome work! One problem though, the white ’seek bar’ extends far to the left outside of the video. Once a video is loaded and the and start playback, this corrects itself. It does this on the example on this page. I’ve attached a screenshot here: http://missingtoof.com/Picture-1.jpg

    This happens in Firefox, Safari & Camino on OSX. I’m running the latest version of flash 9,0,115,0.
51. Shane McCartney 26.02.08

    Hey Mike

    Thanks for reporting this I have fixed this problem which strangely only affects Mac for getting the load percent before a video has been requested to be loaded.

    Shane M
52. mike 27.02.08

    wow, you’re fast! amazing!
53. Geraint 28.02.08

    Great bit of code, I was just wondering is “recording_location”,”recording_country” and comments suported? If so how to you use them?

    Thanks for you help geraint
54. Shane McCartney 28.02.08

    Hi Geraint
    Have a look at the method videoIdDetails this will give you this data for a specific Video Id

    Shane M
55. Geraint 29.02.08

    Thanks Thats sorted what I need! However I have one small question, not all You tube videos work. Not sure if its me. Try the following user and not all of them work.

    kirkflyingvet

    Thanks
56. Shane McCartney 01.03.08

    Hi Geraint

    Thanks for spotting this and I have updated the .Net code to fix this.

    Shane M
57. Geraint 01.03.08

    No problem, thanks for the great API.

    Is it possible to get a copy of the .net code?

    Geraint
58. Shane McCartney 01.03.08

    Sure just email me and I’ll email it to you
59. Matt 13.03.08

    Hey Shane, once the video XML is parsed, and you come up with the path, how do you play it? There’s no FLV ending. I’ve tried with the “previewVid” Video in the library and with an FLVplayback component and nothing wants to play it. I’ve also tried adding “rtmp” instead of http, and throwing an flv extension on the end. From looking at your code it looks like you just tell it to .play(path) How? Please help.
60. Matheus 13.03.08

    I’m trying to use the class with PHP but all I get is is the following XML, no matter what I try to do:
    4Missing required parameter.
61. Matt 13.03.08

    Nevermind Shane, I finally got it. You must use the netstream and netconnection. I looked at your implementation of “FLVPlayer” and thought it was “FLVPlayback.” Thanks for the code!
62. Shane McCartney 17.03.08

    Hi Matheus,
    I was supplied this Php code, I would recommend using the .Net code as I never really liked this Php code so I initally removed it from the download ZIP but ppl asked me to add it back. Though I quickly looked at it I noticed an obvious bug and fixed it.

    Shane M
63. thviy 22.03.08

    Hey

    i am trying to make desktop youtube player using your example on your
    website. but i keep getting this security sandbox violation error all
    the time.

    i tried hosting all the php files in my server, but looks like my
    hosting does not support curl. Is there any way you could provide me
    with cross domain policy file?

    thanks

    thivy
64. Charalambos Constantinou 24.03.08

    Can this code work for searching other tubes also?
65. Eduardo Neves 25.03.08

    Hello Shane,

    Your Code is really nice, I’ve update my site with your code with a simple modification, I didn’t allow the users do the search by themselves, I’ve set the tag in the Main.as script and every time when the users enter in the site they need click in the bottom to have my Video list as response. It was working fine till last week when it’s stop work on IE. I didn’t do any change after the implementation and now it’s just working on Firefox; Do you know some issue happening that avoid this code work on IE? Or maybe am I doing something wrong?

    Thanks in Advance,

    Eduardo Neves
66. Eduardo Neves 25.03.08

    Sorry Shane,

    I forgot tell you, I’m using the AS3 Flash Scritp.

    Thanks
67. Shane McCartney 28.03.08

    Hi Eduardo
    Theres no reason why it shouldn’t work in IE, though I did just recently block cross domain access to scripts on flashdynamix as there were getting abused. Though all these server side scripts are provided and can be implemented in either .Net or PHP on you’re own server. I recommend using the .Net as I wrote this version :)

    Shane M
68. Eduardo Neves 29.03.08

    Hi Shane,

    I did like you suggest installing the YouTube.dll in my own server and changing the youtube.as to execute the aspx direct from my server, but no luck.
    All the time I’m getting this error:

    “ERROR loading method : youtube.videos.list_by_user”.

    Do you have any idea what it can be solved. I know for sure I doing something wrong, but really don’t know where and what :-) !!!

    Thanks for you help again

    Eduardo Neves
69. Shane McCartney 31.03.08

    Eduardo
    Send me the url you are testing this error with, so I can debug it for you.
70. Eduardo Neves 02.04.08

    Shane,

    I got a help from my WebPage host, and we figure out what problem is occuring.
    We thought that YouTube.dll was successfully installed but wasn’t. Every time we try install it by command “regsvr32″ the msg below is displayed:
    “youTube.dll was loaded, but the DllRegisterServer entry point was not found. This file can not be registered.”
    The same occurs for the ToolKit.dll.
    Do you know how can we proceed to apply it on our server successfully?

    Our link for the Videos Page is:
    http://www.free4christ.com/Videos/videos.asp

    Thanks in Advance,

    Eduardo Neves
71. Shane McCartney 02.04.08

    Hi Eduardo,
    Using a HTTP Analyzer the problem is your reference to the script returns a 404 error. So I’ld say this is the error.

    Shane M
72. Rick 02.04.08

    How do I get it to load a specific playlist?
73. Shane McCartney 03.04.08

    Hi Rick,
    There is a method called videosPlaylist on the YouTube class. It requires at least the playlist Id as a parameter.
74. Eduardo Neves 03.04.08

    Shane,

    I could solve this problem using the “PHP” files instead of “ASPX and *dll files”.
    Now it’s working fine on both browser IE and Firefox.
    Thanks a lot for your help;

    Eduardo Neves
75. Anthony Maness 20.04.08

    I am trying to use your API to develop a multimedia site for school. Do you have deploy the site on a web server or can it be tested locally? The videos will not play once selected. Thank you for your help.

    Anthony Maness
76. Shane McCartney 23.04.08

    Hi Anthony,
    The server side scripts need to be used either on your localhost or on a remote host.
    Shane M
77. Matt 24.04.08

    Well, it’s me again Shane. I’m still working with your setup and I have to say that you have some beautiful code. I’ve finally got it working exactly how I want it. And I just wanted to throw out something to you. In Main.as, I had to issue a command like this: fvc.myVid.smoothing = true; That removed a lot of jagged edges, and let me bump up the size of the player. Thanks again!
78. Shane McCartney 24.04.08

    Cheers Matt,
    I am glad you like the code.
79. Geraint 25.04.08

    It’s me again sorry!

    Is there a method for getting a users playlist? Or getting a playlist?

    Thanks Geraint
80. Geraint 25.04.08

    Thanks again for the help here is what we did with it
    http://kirkflyingvet.com/video.aspx
81. Myran 26.04.08

    Good job on this thing, I wonder though.. why does the seeking bar not work? Also, is it possible to modify sound volume and not just toggle mute?
82. Shane McCartney 26.04.08

    Hi Myran
    The seeking bar can be activated via a property called allowSeek in the VideoPlayback class. Though I disabled this because I discovered YouTube specific problems seeking partcular videos.

    Shane M
83. Shane McCartney 26.04.08

    Hi Geraint,
    Nice work there is a method videosPlaylist in the YouTube class to get a video playlist.

    Shane M
84. Cory 02.05.08

    Hey Shane, this code is great. I just want to know how to load one specified video file from youtube to flash, say this file:
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbHAjSxm5P8

    thx man
    Cory
85. Shane McCartney 02.05.08

    Hi Cory,
    The example files should get you started and demonstrate how to do this, so refer to these as downloaded above. Use the getVideoId method and pass this url once you get back the t parameter you can load the flv using the videoId as well.
86. Shane McCartney 02.05.08

    Just to let you guys know there is now a new version of the YouTube class which supports there new API as documented here http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/developers_guide_protocol.html. The legacy API is still also included in the download zip file.
87. Geraint 03.05.08

    Thanks
88. Cory 03.05.08

    Hi Shane, it’s me again, thanks for your reply, I think I didn’t make myself clear, I was meant to say how would I load a YouTube video directly into the player automatically (without the user having to click anything)?

    For instance: I want to have this video http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbHAjSxm5P8 appear when someone goes to the page.

    P.S : I’m not great at actionscript so please tell me slowly ;)

    Cheers
89. Shane McCartney 04.05.08

    Hi Cory
    This is best explained I think by some sample code.

    import com.FlashDynamix.services.YouTube;
import com.FlashDynamix.events.CustomEvent;

    var yt:YouTube = new YouTube();
    yt.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);

    function onLoaded(e:CustomEvent):void {
    switch (e.id) {
    case YouTube.VIDEOID :
    trace(YouTube.FLVUrl+e.value.id+"&t="+e.value.t);
    break;
    }
    }

    yt.videoId("http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbHAjSxm5P8");
90. Cory 04.05.08

    Thx Shane you helped me a lot there.
91. Cory 04.05.08

    btw, is there a folder called CustonEvent?

    thx
92. Cory 04.05.08

    Sorry for posting 3 comments in a row. After trying this many times, I still couldn’t get it right, if you have time would you mind just uploading the source file for the “loading a YouTube video directly into the player automatically without the user having to click anything”

    sorry for my bad english

    I would be very grateful
    Cory
93. philippe 06.05.08

    hi, Thx for source.
    work with php, need php-curl installed

    sorry for my bad english, i’m french
94. Shane McCartney 07.05.08

    Hi Phillippe,
    that’s right for the php source you will need curl installed on your server. But this is often easily done via adding the curl dll reference to the php.ini file.
95. jj 13.05.08

    Somehow i can’t make this work. I can’t open the youtube.fla… did anyone successfully got this working w. the PHP version.. please help …. there are too many files.. which ones are required for the PHP version…?
96. Shane McCartney 14.05.08

    JJ,
    There are example files showing this working as above example SWF and you need to use CS3 to open the FLA’s. The same files are used in Actionscript whether you’re using .Net or PHP, just change the videoIdUrl var in the YouTube class. There are only 5 classes required to use this service, so not that many.

    YouTube
YouTubeData
DataLoader
DataItem
CustomEvent

97. Anonymous 18.05.08

    Can this not be made to work with AS3 on the client, without any need for a server?
98. Shane McCartney 20.05.08

    There is a server requirement to get the YouTube video Id.
99. Neolio 20.05.08

    Is there a solution for the sandbox violation when we read a youtube video in flash ?
100. Shane McCartney 21.05.08

     When you say read you mean draw the bitmap data from the FLV? You won’t be able to get this from YouTube because the cross domain policy file on YouTube is not wildcarded for all domains.
101. Neolio 22.05.08

     Thanks for the answer. Yes I just want to draw the bitmap data, so play the video into flash! But I don’t understand, you do that in your Flash application at the top of this page ?
102. Geraint 24.05.08

     Hi all,

     I have the following error when I click on a video link sometimes

     “Error #2044: Unhandled NetStatusEvent:. level=error, code=NetStream.Play.StreamNotFound
     at …. FLVPlayer.as:40]”
     http://www.pgarydercuptour.co.uk/map
     .html

     Anyone got any ideas how to fix it?

     Regards Geraint
103. Shane McCartney 28.05.08

     Hi Geraint,
     I am guessing this is for a specific video, can you supply the details of the video so i can test ? for the supplied url i get a 404 error so I can’t see this http://www.pgarydercuptour.co.uk/map.html

     Shane M
104. Kevin 09.06.08

     I just want to say this was very helpful to me. and Thanks for the generous posting of the code.
     I was just wondering is there an easy way to get the totalResults value.. I know it has something to do with openSearch but cant quite figure it out.
     Thanks in advance.
105. Guto 10.06.08

     Hello, excuse me because I’m Brazilian and I am not speaking the English well, in fact I speak very badly the English. Firstly congratulations on the post on youtube, excellent!

     The problem is that I personalizei your code, however I do not know what is the secret that he is not working. Earlier he worked normally, redirecionei the files to my server and acted normal, then stopped. The interesting thing is that it works normally in the flash debugger, however he did not leave the online search … you can give me something? now I am grateful.

     if you want to see the example that I put online just visit the web address passed.

     I hope that can help me. Thank you, and congratulations again, very interesting
106. Raylan 10.06.08

     Hello!

     I’m trying to understand how you did that player, but I need it to automatically run a video X. You could send me a simple example of how it would be in as2 and php? Or send me some more explanatory documentation because the documentation Google is very bad.

     I am Brazilian, I am sorry for any error of English.

     Congratulations for the work!
107. Shane McCartney 10.06.08

     Hi Kevin,
     You’re right it is in the openSearch namespace. Though I have updated the class so this is easy to get in the result via response i.e. e.value.totalResults, enjoy!
108. Shane McCartney 10.06.08

     Hi Gato,
     If you’re using the AS3 version please look in the YouTube class and ensure you’re using your own clientKey (developer Key) which can be registered on the YouTube API page http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html. As well the servicesDomain var is set to the server you are uploading to.
109. Shane McCartney 10.06.08

     Hi Raylan,
     To get the example files working in PHP change the extension from aspx to php in the YouTube class. Then change the var servicesDomain to your own and upload the provided php files to this location.

     To load a video automatically first you need to find out the video id this can be retrieved via the page the YouTube video is at i.e. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WaWoo82zNUA then call this function in flash yt.getVideoId(”WaWoo82zNUA”); I hope this helps.
110. Guto 10.06.08

     Hi .. well, on the previous post, I am using my own apiakey and serviceDomain is redirected to my server online with certainty. Everything works normally in the environment clearance of the flash, when I get in a html page then triggers a mistake by error method in CA2. Now you can see at the site posted the headline of this post, is now without password … does not have something there with the address of domainService absolute or relative? although I tried everything and nothing … what you think?

     I am grateful now
111. Shane McCartney 10.06.08

     Hi Guto,
     Can you email me the url are testing on ?
112. Guto 12.06.08

     Shane Sure, I did download the files earlier and edited it. Today again lowered its files and discovered that the files in the folder “legacy” do not work … However the archives of the “current” operating normally. I mean, those of the “legacy” do not work in the browser, only the debugger the flash, since the files in the folder “current” operating normally in the browser. The problem is that I edited the whole file to AS2, and there is no file in the folder AS2 “current”. Can you tell me why the files in the folder “legacy” do not work?

     you … Sorry my English again … I am Brazilian … thanks
113. Shane McCartney 12.06.08

     Guto,
     You are right I will not be creating an AS2 version of the new YouTube API it only supports the legacy version of the YouTube API. I have tested the files in legacy and they do work. Though what I think is happening here is a cross domain policy file problem as my domain doesn’t allow this. You will need to upload the PHP or APSX files to your own server and change the var servicesDomain in the YouTube class to point to your own domain.
114. Robert 14.06.08

     I’ve got a wierd bug with the AS2 version. I’m embedding it inside a Director 11 Shockwave movie (which only supports AS2). It works well when I load it into a browser locally, but hangs on the tag search when I load it from my website - which seems backwards from what I would expect! Any ideas? Current version is http://www.ourwebhome.com/dig/you/yt1.htm
115. Robert 15.06.08

     Ok, sorry for the stupid question before, I’ve read through the thread and I think my problem before was not setting up the proxy on my server so that I can get the videoid. I’ll do that and try again.
     Meanwhile, since Shockwave only supports Flash 8 / AS2, I’m wondering if it’s possible to update the current AS3 version for backwards compatibility to AS2 so that I can just change the publish target to Flash 8. When I try that I get
     WARNING: The component ‘fl.core.ComponentShim’ requires ActionScript 3.0.
     Before I dive into trying to make that work, have you already looked at that? Huge problem? Small fix?
     Thanks, and I’ll definitely contribute, and I may want to hire you if you’re still available. This is great code!
116. Robert 15.06.08

     It works in Shockwave!
     http://www.ourwebhome.com/dig/you/yt1.htm
     Once I got the proxy setup I was able to use the legacy AS2 version with a little additional Lingo for the sprite:
     property spriteNum
     on beginSprite
     fs = sprite(spriteNum)
     fs.actionsEnabled = TRUE
     fs.buttonsEnabled = TRUE
     fs.eventPassMode = #passAlways
     end
     My only concern is that this is the old Youtube API, which makes that port of the current version to Flash 8 a bit more critical.
117. Shane McCartney 15.06.08

     Hi Robert,
     That’s great that you got that to work, though it’s a shame that Director doesn’t support AS3 yet. Unfortunately I won’t be updating the AS2 version to the latest YouTube API.
118. Robert 16.06.08

     No worries, you’ve given enough already. Any insights into where the tough parts might be in doing the upgrade? I’m mainly interested in the API pieces; I can rework the UI elements. Do you think it would be best to start from the current code and try to work back to AS2 or take the legacy code and upgrade it?
119. Shane McCartney 16.06.08

     Hi Robert,
     I would take the current code and make it legacy. My biggest worry would be using XML Namespaces in AS2 :) other than this it should be all straight forward.
120. Rich 27.06.08

     Shane, this is absolutely brilliant. Really impressive stuff.

     I’ve read through all the comments and I’m having a problem that is occasionally referenced but not solved. I’m trying to stream a youtube video using getVideoId, and it only works maybe 30% of the time. It seems like the videoId link is expiring? I’ve tried switching the method to a search by tag for the watch/v= id code, and I get the same problem. I’ve also tried adding a noCache random number onto the proxy call, all to no avail. I’ve been through your code and can’t see what I’m doing differently, any idea what the problem could be?

     Thanks very much!

     Rich.
121. Shane McCartney 27.06.08

     Hi Rich,
     What’s the link you’re testing? I suggest using a http analyzer program to find out more information on what’s happening here behind the scenes.
122. Ben Arent 05.07.08

     Really nice. Thanks for posting.
123. Kaya 05.07.08

     Hi Shane,

     Firstly thanks to a wonderful flash app. I know a decent amount of AS3 but it’s very hard to sort through someone elses script and modify a few things so this is why i’m emailing you.

     From this app you posted, all i need it to do is have a list of videos already in place in the ‘vidsList’ combo box from you tube, preferably read from an external xml file.

     Reason is, my client at the website posted wants all her you tube videos in the div under her biography (need to scroll), to be in a list so it takes less room.

     Any help would be much appreciated. Also if you can direct me into being able to learn how to code for you tube videos so i can learn myself, that would be great also
124. Rich Lowenberg 15.07.08

     Hi Shane,

     I downloaded an http analyser as you suggested, and it has got me one step closer - I’m getting a 410 error, which is a “file gone” error. I.e., the link has expired. This doesn’t seem to happen on your implementation at all, can you think what could be going wrong?

     Thanks a lot for the help, it’s really appreciated!

     Rich.
125. Shane McCartney 15.07.08

     Hi Rich,
     I think it’s specific to the video you are requesting for some reason on youtube’s end it’s having problems resolving the video hence the 410.
126. Howard 17.07.08

     Hi Shane - can you post the .net source code (.cs files) for the proxy and get video ID pages, in addition to the .dll files? Thanks!
127. Thivy’s Portfolio 18.07.08

     [...] lostinactionscript.com [...]
128. Cody 23.07.08

     Would you happen to know why a flash file playing locally works with your old as2 code, but does not when put on a server? I’m so baffled.
129. Shane McCartney 24.07.08

     Hi Cody,
     This would be because you are loading the data from my domain, you will need to host the proxy server side scripts on your own domain. Change the var servicesDomain in the YouTube class to match your domain/url to where you have uploaded the server side scripts which are provided as php and .net
130. MikeLogic 30.07.08

     Great work! I’m actually looking to relocate to the UK for awhile. I’m jealous!

     But hey….I was wondering why the getVideoId C# (codebehind) was not included the package. Could you post that file?
131. Ion 06.08.08

     Hi Shane,
     Great work.
     I just want to know why it doesnt work with my Dev id, It only work with yours.
     Any sugestion?
132. Amer Dababneh 30.08.08

     thank you for this API it’s very helpful.
133. m 31.08.08

     Thanks for the great work Shane.

     Ive got a bit of problem and Im wondering if its shared/theres a solution:

     Sometimes I don’t get a redirect from getVideoId.php — Im watching with httpfox I can see it happening. Most times I get a redirect to a cache.googlevideo domain and all works well, but once in a while nothing happens. I see the getVideoId.php fire off its GET, but no response comes back.

     This problem is not specific to a certain videoid, as sometimes the same one works and sometimes it doesn’t.

     Thanks
     -m
134. Tey 03.09.08

     hi Shane

     if you have made it mute and later give volume, no sound more

     Sorry for my bad english
135. Shane McCartney 04.09.08

     What a stoopid mistake nice spot on that Tey, thanks
136. Pieter 07.09.08

     Hi Shane,

     My hosting provider thinks the use of cURL and proxyRequest means that all streaming data goes via my own domain. So I would have to pay for the extra data traffic.
     In thought the videos streams directly from YouTube.

     Who is right?
137. Shane McCartney 07.09.08

     The video streams from YouTube. The only proxy request in the AS3 version is to get a video Id. All other data queries are direct to YouTube.
138. dan 13.09.08

     seems the link to your web service is down.

     http://code.flashdynamix.com/YouTube/getVideoId.aspx

     do you have the source for that?
139. dan 13.09.08

     ah nvm..

     damn, this was all working fine yesterday with all your settings left untouched, and now im getting all sorts of 410 or 404, or NetStream Not Found errors on the direct FLV links.

     For whatever reason, yt.videoID(…) returns an error with message \”videoId\” and the direct link to the FLV using fvc.play( …) says NetStream Not Found.

     It was not doing this yesterday.. do you have some sort of limit to the number of connections to your server script? I can easily copy that from the source zip, but I\’m just testing this locally for now.
140. dan 13.09.08

     where is “getVideoId.aspx.cs” ?
141. dan 13.09.08

     sorry for so many posts..

     Data Loader gives this error message inside on its onError handler:

     [IOErrorEvent type="ioError" bubbles=false cancelable=false eventPhase=2 text="Error #2032: Stream Error. URL: http://code.flashdynamix.com/YouTube/getVideoId.aspx?method=videoId&url=http%3A%2F%2Fwww%2Eyoutube%2Ecom%2Fwatch%3Fv%3D4Rd6u0un9PE"]

     It points to code.flashdynamix.com. The player on this page works fine. I’m not sure what happened between yesterday night and this morning, but testing locally is no longer working.. I suppose I could try using your PHP script on my own server..

     But, any ideas? Testing locally is really important right now..
142. dan 13.09.08

     lol

     Ok, so disregard these posts.. can you confirm that this was simply a matter of restrictions on your server script?

     I placed your PHP script on my server, and thankfully curl was already installed, so it works great.

     Thanks a lot for your API, it is awesome.
143. Little Known Way to Create a Fully Customizable ActionScript 3.0 YouTube Player - Streamhead 23.09.08

     [...] most likely, you’ll end up on Shane McCartney’s excellent Flash blog, which has a nice Flex application showing you how to directly access the YouTube FLV files. No need for the YouTube supplied Flash applet. The code is available, it’s just not very [...]
144. Neil 08.10.08

     Hi Shane thanks for this!,

     unfortuantly there seems to be a problem now with using the php version and Curl, previously this was working fine from my server but now its just returning an empty string (curl returns 1 if its an empty string). Ive tested this with curl in the command line and still no page content is returned. Curl is running fine on my server tested against other urls, just youTube, could they be now be blocking this method? I know you didnt actually do the php version, do you know who did?

     Your server’s aspx script is working fine, do you have the php version running there also to test against?

     Any ideas would be useful!
145. Shane McCartney 08.10.08

     Hi Neil,
     Honestly I can’t remember who sent me this PHP code but I did write the C# code and they reverse engineered from this. I’ll try to get around to doing a test sometime this week.
146. Neil 09.10.08

     Hi Shane,

     That would be useful, if just to check its no funkiness my end, though i doubt it as it also fails in the terminal.

     For now Ive found a simple proxy script which will return the page scrape to extract the t value. No doubt this curl issue is part of YT’s work to stop remote loading, they do now offer a chromeless player so this is always another option. Its only the main domain that allows remote access, uk.youtube.com has a restricted crossdomain file and the server will try to redirect you to this if it spots you’re in the uk, nice…

     Thanks for the work on this!
147. aditya 10.10.08

     Hi Shane I was trying to Get Youtube Videos onto Flash Lite 3.0. Is there any way to do this.
148. arca 11.10.08

     Sorry but in the file “yuotube.zip” the “fla” for “AS2″ does not open! why? thanks!
149. Shane McCartney 12.10.08

     You are probably not using CS3, the FLA only demonstrates the above example the source code can be used in earlier revisions of the IDE
150. The YouTube Flash Video (FLV) secret - Streamhead 21.10.08

     [...] page from within the Flash applet. The easiest solution is to deploy a small server side script. Again the work has already been done for you: 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18 19 20 21 22 23 24 25 26 27 28 29 30 31 32 <?php [...]
151. Jonathon 23.10.08

     Shane,

     Im just wondering if it is possible to play a video from YouTube in an AS2 solution.. without all of the special features of search.. etc. Simply just to enter the unique ID and play the video. Im aware of AS3 solutions that do this… but I am struggling to find a way to do it in an AS2 solution that doesnt require PHP.

     You seem to know a lot about this topic.

     Any help is appreciated.

     Thanks
152. Joseph 25.10.08

     Hi!

     Thank you so much for such a great script. I will be donating asap to this site becasue I belive your services are well worth it.

     The script works fine locally but when I upload the script to my host it will not return any channels. the files are located here http://www.gjstuff.com/youtube/index.html

     Thank you for your help!
153. Tying the YouTube Services Together Like a Pro Web 2.0 Developer - Streamhead 28.10.08

     [...] and path of the php script. And depending on what you use (php or asp) comment the correct line (the original library also comes with an asp implementation if you prefer that one). That’s all there is to it. [...]
154. The Lazy ActionScript Developer’s Way to Stream Flash Video - Streamhead 04.11.08

     [...] ways to get to this one. You could fire up FireBug and check the network logs, or you could check Shane’s code and open his Main.as class. Skip to line 67 and you’ll see: 1 2 3 case YouTube.VIDEOID : [...]
155. Robert 12.11.08

     Shane,

     Great scripts! I’m using some of the AS3 classes, and the only problem I’m having is with the scripts for converting a “http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=” style URL into something I can load into my movie. It works fine in authoring, but in a browser it just fails. Any advice?

     Thaks!
156. Robert 12.11.08

     Actually, I got it working. Thanks!

     - Robert
157. michael 25.11.08

     how can we display ads on the player.
     i want the ads to be overlay on player…
     plz help……………….
158. Bert Van Eeckhout 28.11.08

     Thanks, this is a very useful post for me.
159. Pieter 28.11.08

     Hey Shane,

     I’m playing around a little with your great script.
     Unlike the legacy version, the current version doesn’t load the coordinates of the recording location. At least, it is not shown in the information text field after clicking a video.

     I found out this is because this information is not in the Media nameSpace of the XML. It’s written like this:

     21.37124437061831 -157.87353515625

     I tried everything to get access to this extra information.
     I started by changing this (in YouTube.as):
     case USERS : data = YouTubeData.videos(xml, xml.elements().media::group);
     to
     case USERS : data = YouTubeData.videos(xml, xml.elements());

     But this puts an error, as do all my other attempts.

     Could you please give me a hint how to access the GML information?
160. Shane McCartney 28.11.08

     Hi Pieter,
     I understand your difficulty using namespaces in XML it can be tricky. Though I have taken the hard work out for you by providing your request among other things in a new revision of the API. This is available from code.google and the SVN details for this are above.

     The geo tagged data is in an Array of 2 values for longitude/latitude called ‘geo’ on the response Object i.e. data.geo[0] and data.geo[1]
161. Pieter 29.11.08

     You are my hero!!! Thank you Shane!

     As soon I am going to use your code for a paid project I’ll make you a donation.
162. Shane McCartney 29.11.08

     It’s no problem, the only thing I think this API still needs is to return a type safe data Object I will get to that soon.
163. Pieter 29.11.08

     Great!
     I should attend your talk at FITC in my hometown to improve my scripting skills. I might do that.
164. BubbleBoy 03.12.08

     Really nice stuff. I can’t get it to work however. No idea why. I move the code to my flash project and I never get an answer from Youtube.. I am still using your developer Key, but I thought to change as soon as I have gotten everything working. It works fine in your .FLA but as soon as I try invoke the code from my .FLA it doesnt work. I can see the request being sent, with the same parameters and everything, but I have no idea why it doesnt work..

     If anyone has any suggestions that would be very appreciated!!

     This is my code:
     trace (”creating youtube”);
     var yt:YouTube = new YouTube();
     yt.addEventListener(YouTubeEvent.COMPLETE, ytLoaded); yt.addEventListener(YouTubeEvent.ERROR, ytOnError); yt.videosForTag(myStr);
     trace (”done”);

     the ytLoaded function is never invoked. I have added traces inside the Youtube.as class and they work alright, both from your .FLA and the one I have. But I have no idea why my version never even gets an answer?
165. Shane McCartney 03.12.08

     YouTubeEvent.COMPLETE event is dispatched from the current version.

     This might be a stupid question to ask but you have defined the methods ytLoaded and ytOnError ? I ask this because your sample code doesn’t mention this.
166. Jeff 19.12.08

     Shane, great work! Your code works fine running from within Flash, but when I upload it to my server, everything works except the videos will not actually play. Not sure what the problem is.

     Here’s my url:
     http://www.sdsc.edu/us/training/elearning/mashups/youTube/current/as3/

     Any suggestions would be much appreciated.
167. Shane McCartney 19.12.08

     Hi Jeff,
     You will need to host the provided server side scripts (ASPX or PHP) and change the domain settings and APIKey in the YouTube class.
168. Andy 23.12.08

     Hi Shane,

     Sorry to ask because it looks like a lot of people already have, but I’m still having trouble with the server side scripts, and couldn’t work it out going through all the other posts.

     I’ve changed the client key to my developer key, and changed the service domain to the place on my server (andyvern.com/YouTube)where I’m hosting the server side scripts. I’ve also uploaded the bin folder into the same folder. In the end I tried uploading everything into that folder . I’ve also tried the aspx and php versions, but the videos won’t play.

     I’m sure it’s something really simple but I don’t understand server side things at all. Have I missed something important?

     Cheers
169. Shane McCartney 24.12.08

     Hi Andy,

     Send me an email if you like of the url you are testing or try using a HTTP analyzer like Charles/Fiddler this may help you to isolate what the server side error is.
170. martial 15.01.09

     Shane, you can’t imagine how I was happy when I saw “Fix for videoId php script” in the SVN.

     You’re amazing!

     Would be happy to know why this change though.
171. Izakky 16.01.09

     hi!

     is very great! but i ‘m trying with the as3 version but it doesn’t work :(

     If i compile the fla… i see this error message:

     ”
     TypeError: Error #1034: Type Coercion failed: cannot convert fl.controls::TextInput@39f601c9 to flash.text.TextField.
     at flash.display::Sprite/constructChildren()
     at flash.display::Sprite()
     at flash.display::MovieClip()
     at Main()
     ”

     and your AS3 example it doesn’t work in server, code.flashdynamics.com…

     Could you help me please?

     Thank you!!!!
172. Shane McCartney 17.01.09

     I would say youve made some kind of edit in the Main class which is simply an example class and does not have a coercion issue.
173. andyVern» Blog Archive » BUBBLE YouTube Search Web Demo 19.01.09

     [...] This feature uses Shane McCartney’s AS3 YouTube API. [...]
174. kbrown 21.01.09

     Hi Shane,
     This is great stuff. I’ve tried to read through the comments, but can’t seem to find the right answer. I am trying to automatically pull in a user’s playlist, without the “onClick” command. I’ve tried manipulating it, but it’s not seeming to work. Any thoughts?

     I also am wondering if you have any experience pulling in the video thumbnails to accompany the video title?

     Any help you could offer would be GREAT!
175. Shane McCartney 21.01.09

     Hi kbrown,
     I am assuming you are using the AS3 if not I recommend you use this. When you get your YouTubeUserVideoList there will be a list Array contained in this Object. This Array contains YouTubeVideo Objects in this Object you can find the title, description, img etc.

     For example when the result comes from the YouTube class YouTubeEvent.COMPLETE you can access this data like so ((event.data as YouTubeUserVideoList).list[0] as YouTubeVideo).img;

     To load the playlist automatically simply do this

     var yt:YouTube = new YouTube(); yt.addEventListener(YouTubeEvent.COMPLETE, onLoaded);
yt.videosForUser("flashdynamix");

     function onLoaded(event:YouTubeEvent):void{
}

176. Peter 28.01.09

     Hey Shane,

     Have you had any experience searching by “groups”? (http://uk.youtube.com/groups_main)

     Thanks again for sharing dude, really appreciate your work.
177. Shane McCartney 28.01.09

     Hey Peter,
     I don’t see an option for this with the YouTube data API let me know if you notice otherwise http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/reference.html
178. Peter 29.01.09

     Thanks for having a look Shane.

     Yep I don’t think them there YouTube folks have opened up the groups so I think we’re going to have the admin running the group favourite the group videos and take it from there.
179. vamapaull 04.02.09

     I’m trying to get the flv from youtube with this code:

     import com.FlashDynamix.services.YouTube;
     import com.FlashDynamix.events.CustomEvent;

     var yt:YouTube = new YouTube();
     yt.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onLoaded);

     function onLoaded(e:CustomEvent):void {
     switch (e.id) {
     case YouTube.VIDEOID :
     trace(YouTube.FLVUrl+e.value.id+”&t=”+e.value.t);
     break;
     }
     }

     yt.videoId(”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bbHAjSxm5P8″);

     And I always get this error:
     1046: Type was not found or was not a compile-time constant: CustomEvent.

     I don’t really know what to do right now. I just need to make a simple flv player that will get the youtube url and play the video in a custom flv player.
     Any tips for some code that will get me the youtube flv url ?
180. carol 13.02.09

     the getVideoId.php isn’t working anymore, it keeps throwing StreamNotFound. If I connect to your getVideoId.aspx file it works though. I don’t have the possibility to use aspx as I’m on an all linux server. What can I do!! Thanks for everything
181. Robert 13.02.09

     Legacy API Down?
     I have to use AS2, so I’ve been using code based on your AS2 version. It’s been working great for months, and suddenly stopped working today (I think). Have you heard anything about Youtube shutting down the legacy API? My application can search and get a list of videos, but when I try to play them they fail.
182. Shane McCartney 13.02.09

     No the legacy API is still available, I think its got to do with the PHP script which unfortunately I didn’t write nor do I know PHP really at all. I wrote the original C# version which still works. If someone knows PHP and fixes it let me know and I’ll update the SVN.
183. Shane McCartney 13.02.09

     Hi vamapaull,
     Refer to the example code above or the example class Main.as provided from the SVN to show you how to use the API correctly.

     Where did you get this code from ?
184. Rich 14.02.09

     Hi Shane,

     Thanks for a brilliant api, I used it for a component that I built for a client, and we’re getting the same issue with the php as Robert. I’d like to take a stab at fixing the php, but could use your C# code so I can try and figure out what that’s doing right, that the php is doing wrong. Any chance you could send it over? Obviously if I get a fix working I’ll send it to you.

     Thanks man!

     Rich.
185. Rich 15.02.09

     Oh, just to clarify - we’re using it with AS3, not AS2. Thanks!
186. Shane McCartney 15.02.09

     Sure Rich just send me an email and I’ll send over the c# source.
187. Robert 15.02.09

     Was it only Legacy?
     Looking at the AS3 version of the code for the new API, it looks like it also uses the same getVideoId.php to grab and parse the page from Youtube. So was this anything specific to the Legacy API, or were both APIs down?

     Looking now at what you’re parsing through to get the “t” parameter (for example, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dvgZkm1xWPE and view source), I’m guessing that there’s no way to get that from the Google/Youtube APIs directly? If so, that’s weak - they should make that available instead of trying to force you to use their swfs.
188. Robert 15.02.09

     Whoa! API Call!
     It turns out that there is an API call after all! Thanks ShaddyShow!
     http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/forum/Setup-Problems/13704/YouTube-streaming-stopped-working-
     
$url = trim($_REQUEST['url']);

     if (strpos($url, ‘http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=’) === 0) {
     $urlArray = split(”=”, $url);
     $videoid = trim($urlArray[1]);

     $url=”http://www.youtube.com/api2_rest?method=youtube.videos.get_video_token&video_id=$videoid”;
     $t = trim(strip_tags(@file_get_contents($url)));
     $response = “$videoid$t”;

     header(”Content-type: text/xml”);
echo $response;
} else {
die(”Wrong URL / Parameters”);
}

     This version available at http://www.ourwebhome.com/misc/getVideoId.zip
     Previous version:
     http://www.ourwebhome.com/misc/getVideoId_old.zip
189. Shane McCartney 15.02.09

     Hey Robert,

     Thanks for this info I have updated the getVideoId.php script in the SVN so for all those affected by this simply get this update and send a few milky bars Robert’s way :)
190. Rich 16.02.09

     Awesome, thanks guys!!
191. tibo 03.03.09

     Thanks a lot for this excellent work. I have two questions :
     - Why, to get the timestamp, do you have request your external page getVideoId ? Why a simple request in flash is not enough ? That’s what i do and it works.
     var idV:String = "jkBAUqp6NKg";
var urlR:URLRequest = new URLRequest("http://www.youtube.com/api2_rest?method=youtube.videos.get_video_token&video_id=" + idV);
var urlL:URLLoader = new URLLoader(urlR);
urlL.addEventListener(Event.COMPLETE, onComplete);
function onComplete(e:Event){
var rep:XML = new XML((e.target as URLLoader).data.toString());
var timeStamp:String = rep.t;
var urlV:String = "http://www.youtube.com/get_video?video_id=" + idV + "&t=" + timeStamp;
myNetSteam.play(urlV);
}
     - I didn’t manage to load a youtube video flv with the FLVPlayBack component. Do you know if there is any possibility ?
     Thanks a lot,
     Tibo
192. Shane McCartney 03.03.09

     Hi Tibo,
     The FLV Playback component is particularly not well coded, one reason for this is if a path is passed to it which does not have the extension .flv it just assumes that the source is SMIL, which I think is a rather large assumption - boo Adobe you suck at writing components.

     In this case you have to write your own Video Player (which I always do) and is not extremely difficult to be honest, but if you get stuck I can provide you a couple of classes to set you on your way - just send me an email for some source.
193. grit 14.03.09

     A great extra for Flash. I haven’t been able to load user favourite video’s though, just the user uploaded videos. Doesn’t youtube support that?
194. Robin van Emden 29.03.09

     Hi Shane,
     Thanks a lot for your excellent API! By using your code I have finally been able to stream multiple YouTube videos at once… See here for an example.
     Thanks once again,
     Robin
195. Geert 06.04.09

     The videos don’t load without the youtube skin anymore… It seems like youtube has changed things!!!

     Please come up with a solution asap!

     Geert
196. Jennifer 08.04.09

     Thanks for the api, I take it youtube updated their security as getVideoId.php no longer works. Are you now using the chromeless player that functions through externalInterface?
197. Shane McCartney 08.04.09

     Yup that’s right Jennifer though I haven’t committed this update yet. I will as soon as I have source code I am happy to release publicly.
198. Shane McCartney 09.04.09

     @geert I have been working on a solution for this. This update will include support for using the chrome-less player. Using the YouTube Player API will be more stable than using the alternative solution which I can’t see realistically working anymore. This is of course unless you stream the videos through your own domain which completely negates the idea of using YouTube as a CDN.
199. Shane McCartney 11.04.09

     Just to let everyone know that the code.google repo has now been updated with a solution for this. Get the update here http://youtubeas3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
200. Pieter 11.04.09

     Thanks for the update, Shane!
201. Geraint 16.04.09

     Will the update work for ASP.net?

     As I cant see a streamFile.aspx?
202. Richard 16.04.09

     Hey Shane, I had a working version of your youtube-thingy but now it’s broken.

     Where in the link you provided on 11-04 lies the solution?

     unlike others say my getVideoId.php still returns a T variable!?

     http://youtubeas3.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/
203. Shane McCartney 17.04.09

     @richard If you read the above ‘Using the YouTube Player API will be more stable than using the alternative solution which I can’t see realistically working anymore.’ A solution demonstrating this is in the repo
204. Shane McCartney 17.04.09

     @ Geraint Unless someone knows how to create the equivalent of fopen in .net. Because of this I won’t be using the .net versions any more and will probaly be deleted from the SVN shortly.
205. shuurai 20.04.09

     can i use the proxyRequest.php on http://www.youtube.com/v/ maybe like this?
     …proxyRequest.php?url=http://www.youtube.com/v/
206. Shane McCartney 20.04.09

     This will work better if you use getToken.php instead of proxyRequest.php. Further to this you will need to stream the video file through your own domain using the server side script streamFile.php. This can be done via the methods getVideoToken and getVideoUrl in the YouTubeAPI class.

     One important thing to mention this not a legitimate way of using the YouTube API without YouTubes consent. Instead I recommend using the YouTube Player API with the YouTube Data API which you can see working above and is perfectly acceptable.

     So to explain how to go about doing what you’ve asked for in further detail quickly. You initially pass the method getVideoToken a videoId parameter which returns the token variable asynchroniously. Then you can pass the method getVideoUrl the parameters videoId and the token which returns the url which may be passed onto a NetStream.
207. paul 30.04.09

     I wish to link to HD video by default…youtube API doesnt seem to allow this at the moment? So if I select the chromed player in your api how do I pass arguments to enable HD by default? I’ve tried adding it to videoId but no joy….
208. paul 30.04.09

     Not to worry. Got it to work. It would be nice to get HD from the chromeless player! Keep up the good work!
209. Shane McCartney 01.05.09

     I don’t think it’s possible with the chromeless player. Can you share how you got HD to work by default with the chromed player. Was it just a matter of defining the fmt parameter ?
210. raphski 02.05.09

     Hey Shane,
     I’ve been trying to get tubeLoc to work with an as3 site I’m building. I’m opening one movie at a time, loading it and adding it to the display list. It works fine, but once I close a video, fire stop, clear and destroy at it, remove it and what not, it will then not load another movie. I’ve spent a fair bit of time trying to get it to work but not had any luck. Why do you care? Because having tried everything, I cannot get it to work, and am going to attempt to use your rather spiffing api instead.

     Issue I’m having, and it’s a simple one, so no doubt I’ll be back, but are all the flas cs4 only? I’m not having any luck opening any of them in cs3 (on a mac).

     Thanks in advance. And wish me luck!
211. raphski 02.05.09

     I should add, I just need to add, play and remove videos hosted on youtube (ideally retaining the standard youtube skin/ chromed). I don’t need to use any of the other api stuffs at all. Is your api the best thing to use for this? I must admit, I’m not entirely sure how to do what I need with your libraries yet.
212. Shane McCartney 02.05.09

     Yup the example FLA is saved in CS4. I don’t like the code in TubeLoc either it’s buggy as hell so I quickly wrote my own which I know is solid. Make sure you include the youTube.js reference in the html page which embeds your flash movie so ExternalInterface is used in stead of LocalConnection.
213. Shane McCartney 02.05.09

     You will just need to use the class YouTubeFLV to do this rather than the YouTubeVideoPlayer class which is shown in the example FLA. Just pass the videoId you would like to play by the method loadById and define wether you want chromeless or chromed style.
214. raphski 02.05.09

     Thanks for the swift response. Inevitably, a few questions for you.

     It seems to work when I test publish in flash, although I get security sandbox violations, but not when I test it in a browser. Don’t know if that’s what’s stopping it from working in the browser, but I suspect I’m just missing something fundamental. As you said, I have the youTube.as script in my html page, though I have it in a src/ folder and the swf in a swf/ folder. I’ve also changed the swfName var in youTube.as to swf/myswf. Any chance you can point me in the right direction to get it working in browser?

     youTubePlayer = new YouTubeFLV(”",false);
     youTubePlayer.loadById(videoURLStr,2);
     youTubePlayer.y = 50;
     youTubePlayer.setSize(430, 360);

     youTubePlayer.addEventListener(YouTubeFLVEvent.WRAPPER_LOADED, onPlayerReady);

     is what I’m using to load it. I’m not sure if that listener is right or necessary, but what I also want is for it to fade in from the onPlayerReady function. I’m not sure again if I’m just doing it the wrong way. Help is much, much appreciated.
215. Shane McCartney 02.05.09

     @raphski You are probably missing a few files likely you have not included the youTubePlayerBridge.swf as this is essential for AS2 to AS3 communication. The sandbox errors will not be a problem when you use it in the browser as the version on this page should demonstrate (they are unavoidable unfortunately but they are warnings rather than errors). Rather than go back and forth with your questions. It will probably be easier if I do another example simple example just using the YouTubePLayerFLV class even though this is demo’d in the example class - it’s just commented out. I will put something up before the end of the day.
216. Shane McCartney 02.05.09

     There are now example files for skinned (chromed and chromeless) and skinless versions of the YouTube player API included in the repository.
217. raphski 02.05.09

     I have the youTubePlayerBridge.swf in my swf folder too, and the str path to it in the YouTubeFLV class pointing to it, so I don’t think it’s that.

     Good to know about the warnings though, so cheers for that.

     Cheers for the example though, I’ll give it a bash over the weekend and let you know how I get on getting it all to work in my code.

     Multiple thank yous.
218. Shane McCartney 03.05.09

     You must of been missing something? The example files should clearly show how to start using these classes. These example files show how to use the You Tube Data API, You Tube Player API (chromed/chrome-less) and finally a skinless video player with You Tube.
219. raphski 04.05.09

     Well I faffed about it with it. Your example is incredibly helpful. Didn’t have any luck at first, then after trying several things I’ve got it all working. Almost. I have it loading and playing, but am having the same trouble as I was before with tubeloc, though I imagine not because of any issues with your code.

     I have the video loading inside a container, that loads inside a content panel that has a close button. When clicked, I need the youtTube video to stop, clear and destroy > unload itself, so you can then open another one of the videos on that page. (i’m passing the video url string from xml depending on what item in a menu clicked on - so only one video needs to be open at a time, but all within the same page)

     Except it seems player.stop(); doesn’t seem to be working. The only control I can get over it is with pause().

     Do you just call the function on the instance of the player, or does it need to be done with dispatched events or something?
220. Shane McCartney 04.05.09

     I would start with the demo file found under examples/PlayerExample. This shows how to use the YouTube player API very simply. If this demo doesn’t work for you please let me know. Otherwise I’l say the problem lies potentially with how you are implementing this rather than the source code.
221. Shane McCartney 04.05.09

     @raphski Ahh yes I hate AS2! It seems you can’t define a method called stop without it getting confused with another stop method which for some stupid reason is extended from my class even though it doesn’t extend MovieClip. So I had to rename it from stop to something else so it would work, the stop method will work fine now :) Please do an update.
222. raphski 06.05.09

     Thanks Shane. I have it all working now.

     Just one little issue though. Been trying to track it down, but not sure if it’s something in your code or mine.

     Once I close a video, I unload it, the loader unloads, everything’s hunky dory. I open a new video. It opens fine, and plays and everything, but the mouse cursor disappears. It’s still there, as the page is registering clicks in the relevant places, but you just can’t see it.

     Seems to happen across browsers.

     Flash Tracer is also
223. Shane McCartney 06.05.09

     That’s great! It’s not in my code as I don’t do anything with mouse positions. I suspect it’s actually the YouTube Player API swf that causes these warnings to output by incorrectly accessing these properties.
224. Marcos 06.05.09

     Great job!!!
     Hey! When I try to load videos by User name it’s not working. I trying with the demo that is in this page on top. Also I tried downloading the source files and doing the changes in the API dev key, etc, first.

     What happen! Any fix update coming for this bug?
225. Shane McCartney 06.05.09

     Hey Marcos thanks for bringing this to my attention this has occurred because for some reason very recently Google removed the geo location information from the YouTube Data API. I have updated the SVN to suppress this error in case this data is re-introduced at some point to the API.
226. Marcos 07.05.09

     Gotcha! Thanks
     Great job again! : )
227. paul 13.05.09

     In response to my earlier comment, yes I simply added some embedded player parameters e.g. “http://www.youtube.com/v/” + videoId + “&hd=1″ for HD playback by default.
228. Ionut Cirja 17.05.09

     Hi Shane,

     Do you have any idea how to get the images thumbs from the videos too ?

     Thank you
229. Shane McCartney 19.05.09

     You can get them from the YouTubeVideo class it has a reference to the 3 image sizes in the imgs Array
230. Ionut Cirja 19.05.09

     Ihaa, great, perfect! Thank you so much for your response!
231. Andreas 10.06.09

     Hi,
     is the skinless player still working? I don´t get any video loaded.
232. kevin 16.06.09

     can anyone tell me what “ytas3″ is for in the youtubeflv.as file?

     i am trying to have multiple connections going but no luck…I can get an initial image but stream wont play…anybody have a clue how to do this?
233. Vipin 26.06.09

     Hey Shane,

     Nice article bro…Just wanted to know one thing here…

     I had gotten the FLV URL from youtube, with the ‘t’ variable and stuff, but now I am stuck on how to play this video through a FLVPlayback component…I am into developement of a desktop Flash application with AS3 and I need to play the gotten FLV URL locally in my system; not on a web browser and without any PHP script…

     I searched a lot for this, but somehow I am not able to find this…
     Do you have any solution?
234. Shane McCartney 28.06.09

     You will need to have a look at the code included with the skinless example. Though it is not legit-ably possible to play video’s from YouTube without using the YouTube Player API.
235. Shane McCartney 28.06.09

     If this is in one SWF then this should be no problem. Make sure you follow the html example files with particular attention to including the Javascript file ‘YouTube.js’ and definition of the embedded id/name for the SWF.

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