Question

Hi am developing an android application and part of my application wants to parse song title to youtube and get the video link. It does not matter to get the 100% correct video. so how I retrieve data from youtube?

Can any one help me to find a solution its really help full for me.

Thanks

Answer 1

The most common way to do it is using the Youtube data API, which will return XML/Json that you can parse to retrieve things like the video url.

Updated (2017/01/24) (v3)

Use the following call to search for YouTube videos using a search query:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/search?part=snippet&q=fun%20video&key=YOUR-API-KEY

It supports the following basic parameters for searching:

• part : Video data you want to retrieve in the search. For basic searches the recommended value is snippet.
• q : The text you want to search for
• key : Your Google Developer API Key. This key can be obtained at the Google Developer API Console on the Credentials page of your application. Make sure to enable the Youtube Data API v3 on the application your key belongs to.

For more parameters see the Google API Documentation

Using the Java library

On Android you can either do a HTTP request to the URL using the standard HTTP request classes available on the platform, or you can use the Google API Java Library as shown below:

        YouTube youtube = new YouTube.Builder(Auth.HTTP_TRANSPORT, Auth.JSON_FACTORY, new HttpRequestInitializer() {
            public void initialize(HttpRequest request) throws IOException {
            }
        }).setApplicationName("YOUR-APPLICATION-NAME").build();

        String queryTerm = "A fun video"

        // Define the API request for retrieving search results.
        YouTube.Search.List search = youtube.search().list("id,snippet");

        search.setKey("Your-Api-Key");
        search.setQ(queryTerm);

        // Call the API and print first result.
        SearchListResponse searchResponse = search.execute();
        if(searchResponse.getItems().size() == 0)
        { 
           //No items found.
           return;
        }
        SearchResult firstItem = searchResponse.getItems().get(0);

        ResourceId rId = firstItem.getId();
        // Confirm that the result represents a video. Otherwise, the
        // item will not contain a video ID.
        if (rId.getKind().equals("youtube#video")) {
            Thumbnail thumbnail = firstItem.getSnippet().getThumbnails().getDefault();

            Log.d("YOUTUBE_SAMPLE","Video Id" + rId.getVideoId());
            Log.d("YOUTUBE_SAMPLE","Title: " + firstItem.getSnippet().getTitle());
            Log.d("YOUTUBE_SAMPLE","Thumbnail: " + thumbnail.getUrl());
        }