Question

How can you make youtube requests without a developer key?

eg i have:

Uri videoEntryUrl = new Uri("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/xyz123");
Video video = request.Retrieve<Video>(videoEntryUrl);

i want the video object, but the request object requires credentials etc – is there a way round this?

The documentation does say:

Read-only requests to retrieve public videos do not require
authentication.

Answer 1

Initialise your YouTubeRequestSettings with nulls:

YouTubeRequestSettings settings = new YouTubeRequestSettings(null, null);
YouTubeRequest request = new YouTubeRequest(settings);
Uri videoEntryUrl = new Uri("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/xyz123");
Video video = request.Retrieve<Video>(videoEntryUrl);