Question

I’m a beginner at PHP. I have one task in my project, which is to fetch all videos from a YouTube link using curl in PHP. Is it possible to show all videos from YouTube?

I found this code with a Google search:

<?php
 $ch = curl_init();
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_URL, 'http://www.youtube.com');
 curl_setopt($ch, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
 $contents = curl_exec ($ch);
 echo $contents;
 curl_close ($ch);
?>

It shows the YouTube site, but when I click any video it will not play.

Answer 1

You can get data from youtube oemebed interface in two formats Xml and Json which returns metadata about a video:

http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url={videoUrlHere}&format=json

Using your example, a call to:

http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B4CRkpBGQzU&format=json

So, You can do like this:

$url = "Your_Youtube_video_link";

Example :

$url = "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m7svJHmgJqs"

$youtube = "http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=" . $url. "&format=json";
$curl = curl_init($youtube);
curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
$return = curl_exec($curl);
curl_close($curl);
$result = json_decode($return, true);
echo $result['html'];

Try it…Hope it will help you.