Hi,
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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A:
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%5Fguide%5Fprotocol%5Fvideo%5Fentries.html
This is the link to call that returns an atom feed for a single video that includes the thumbnail URL:
Travis
2009-10-31 19:11:51
This solution is correct. However, to only display image it's easier just to user direct link: http://img.youtube.com/vi/[VIDEO_ID]/1.jpg Thanks
Tam
2009-11-06 18:16:05
That's true, although it's always possible they change the structure of that link, in which case your images would break. Still, that's probably pretty unlikely.
Travis
2009-11-06 20:49:32