How to remove `limitedSyndication` from YouTube Data API search results

Question

The following query will return results, but some of them will contain a limitedSyndication restriction. This cannot be filtered out by format or by restriction parameters.

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?alt=json-in-script&callback=jQuery.youtube.response&q=Madonna&v=2&format=5&start-index=11&max-results=10

restriction parameter is not used in the query above because YouTube Data API reference guide states the following:

By default, the API filters out videos that cannot be played in the country from which you send API requests.

Am I doing something wrong? (Besides searching for Madonna)

How can I get rid of limitedSyndication results, or is this a bug?

Answer 1

As stated in the GData docs, you can pass a "restriction" param that will filter out results that can't be played by the ip you pass, so you just need to get the user's IP and pass that to the request:

To request videos playable from a specific computer, include the restriction parameter in your request and set the parameter value to the IP address of the computer where the videos will be played – e.g. restriction=255.255.255.255. To request videos that are playable in a specific country, include the restriction parameter in your request and set the parameter value to the ISO 3166 two-letter country code of the country where the videos will be played – e.g. restriction=DE. You should include this parameter in any request to retrieve a list of videos, including search results, playlists, favorite videos, video responses and so forth. If a video in the API response is not playable in the location that you're using to restrict availability of the content, the <entry> for that tag will not contain a <media:content> tag. However, it will contain a <yt:state> tag that indicates that the video is restricted.