In my Rails app I want users to be able to input video links from YouTube. I want to be able to display the YouTube icon for that link.
How can I do that?
Thanks,
Tam
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In my Rails app I want users to be able to input video links from YouTube. I want to be able to display the YouTube icon for that link.
How can I do that?
Thanks,
Tam
You can use the Youtube data API to retrieve data about a single video. So pull the video id from the user’s link, then make a request to the API to retrieve the thumbnail URL.
More information can be found in the documentation here:
http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_protocol_video_entries.html
This is the link to call that returns an atom feed for a single video that includes the thumbnail URL:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/videoid