YouTube
A pure Ruby object-oriented interface to the YouTube REST API documented at www.youtube.com/dev.
API access requires a developer id. You can obtain one for free at www.youtube.com/my_profile_dev.
The RubyForge project is at rubyforge.org/projects/youtube.
About
Implements version 2 of YouTube’s API.
Installing
Install the gem via:
% gem install youtube
Usage
An example as:
require 'rubygems'
require 'youtube'
youtube = YouTube::Client.new 'DEVELOPER_ID'
profile = youtube.profile('br0wnpunk')
puts "age: " + profile.age.to_s
favorites = youtube.favorite_videos('br0wnpunk')
puts "number of favorite videos: " + favorites.size.to_s
friends = youtube.friends('paolodona')
puts "number of friends: " + friends.size.to_s
puts "friend name: " + friends[0].user
videos = youtube.videos_by_tag('iron maiden')
puts "number of videos by tag iron maiden: " + videos.size.to_s
videos = youtube.videos_by_user('whytheluckystiff')
puts "number of videos by why: " + videos.size.to_s
puts "title: " + videos[0].title
videos = youtube.featured_videos
puts "number of featured videos: " + videos.size.to_s
puts "title: " + videos[0].title
puts "url: " + videos[0].url
puts "embed url: " + videos[0].
puts "embed html: \n" + videos[0].
details = youtube.video_details(videos[0])
puts "detailed description: " + details.description
puts "thumbnail url: " + details.thumbnail_url