My Question is about YouTube thumbnails and endscreens
We are trying to automate publishing of content for YouTube channels. Can thumbnail be automatically set for the given episode with details such as show logo, episode number from the content.
Looking for API to support the automation.
Can somebody please help?
There's the following API endpoint that permits you to set the thumbnail of your videos (thus, of your broadcasts too): Thumbnails.set.
For what concerns Python, I'd recommend to read, understand and use the public sample code from Google: upload_thumbnail.py.
Note that in case you need uploading a thumbnail for a broadcast, then simply use that broadcast's ID as the parameter videoId that you'll pass to the Thumbnails.set API endpoint call.
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I've been looking for a method to extract details from a YouTube clip when only knowing the clip URL within a python script. I specifically need the original channel name.
The YouTube API does not seem to include any method to do so, only to extract details from a known video ID.
For example, this clip: https://www.youtube.com/clip/UgkxnEqNDtOHMOOoS5TyJFr2QOjdKbaTOTlW, with the ID UgkxnEqNDtOHMOOoS5TyJFr2QOjdKbaTOTlW is from this video https://youtu.be/z-e2bDx7tUA, with the ID z-e2bDx7tUA.
z-e2bDx7tUA is searchable with the API, but UgkxnEqNDtOHMOOoS5TyJFr2QOjdKbaTOTlW is not.
Even if there's a more roundabout method, such as getting the clip ID, then getting the video ID and then being able to use that within the API would work. But I've not found an efficient way of doing so, including web scraping.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
One more time YouTube Data API v3 doesn't provide a basic feature.
I recommend you to use my open-source YouTube operational API. Indeed by using https://yt.lemnoslife.com/videos?part=id&clipId=CLIP_ID you'll get in item['videoId'] the video id associated with the clip.
For example the CLIP_ID UgkxfiAGoXJYA02_JdIzA3k3pvqpLNm90DBx is extracted from the videoId 9bZkp7q19f0.
I'm using the API given here from Google, https://developers.google.com/blogger/docs/3.0/using . It allows managing the Blogger blogs easily. The problem is that the content that this API accepts is an HTML content. So, I must provide it with.
title
Hello, how are you doing today
...
So, to integrate an image on the post I must upload it to another image uploader service then get the URL and add it to a tag.
In contrast, if I want to upload the image directly to the Blogger UI, the image will be uploaded to Google servers.
My question is: How can I upload images to google servers as the Blogger UI do, then integrate them into my posts?
I too have been trying to work around this issue. What I did in the end is to use Google Drive API to upload the image and then get a shareable URL and embed it in the blog post.
This comes with its drawbacks, the photos are slower to load on the blog and is not accessible to crawlers. But works as far as the requirement is concerned.
If you find any way to get it done through Blogger API or through Google Photos API, please do let me know.
I want to extract and display Youtube search results for a query to the user.
In that process, I have completed fetching the Youtube link and also extracted the title from the link.
Nevertheless I also want the thumbnail of that link displayed, same as that displayed in Youtube suggestions section.
For a question like this, I'd recommend using the site:youtube.com Google Images search, and just have a look at one or two thumbnails. I believe the below should work in all cases, though you'd need to test on different types of videos.
If the video URL is https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxxxx
The thumbnail URL is https://i.ytimg.com/vi/xxxxxxxxxxxx/maxresdefault.jpg
So basically we would like to integrate our platform with box.net, in particular to be able to stream videos uploaded there, since we can't unfortunately use youtube/vimeo (which support noembed).
I had a look in the doc and:
it seems that for videos the preview is only working for flv and swf.
However I tried with my personal account and one swf embedded with their embedding link didn't preview anyway.
I would like to use the API to upload videos directly from the client, but what happens if the user is not actually authenticated to box.net and the video is private (which is our requirement).
If embedding videos with box is just not going to work we can look at other alternatives, but unfortunately from the list of supported sites http://noembed.com/
it doesn't that we could use any of the services..
For the second point, you can just do all the authentication for your site via box.net. They provide authentication as part of their api: http://developers.box.com/oauth/.
When a user logs into your site, authenticate them with box.net using python requests, and a custom authentication backend, django docs here, example on stack overflow here: Django Remote Authentication without redirecting.
I am uploading video to youtube by using their API. After the successful upload, i want to get the video id which i am unable to find. I have found this in the video_entry object as id.
<ns0:id xmlns:ns0="http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom">http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/nK1Ax6320T8</ns0:id>
Here, nK1Ax6320T8 is the video id. How can i parse it in python. Kindly help.
You'll need to parse that url parameters, Python provides a good library to do that.
There's good sample code from the YouTube data API docs that does exactly what you're asking about. Checkout line 76.