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Get artist name and song name by YouTube code

Answer 1

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There are many API available for Youtube, you'll find the documentation you want there

Valentin Rocher 2010-01-22 20:53:10

Hi, Thank you for reading my question, but i espected a specific script or a good referantial.I am able to handle all the questions on this site by refferring look at the Internet.......Sorry Simon

Simon 2010-01-22 21:13:26

Answer 2

+3 A:

Youtube videos don't have tags for artist and song title (like mp3 files do, for example). So, AFAIK the best you can do is get the video title. You could go further and parse it to get the artist and song name, but I don't think this is something you'd want to do. Using the Data API here's what you can do:

<html>
<head>
<script type="text/javascript">
  function processData(data) {
    var title = data.entry.title.$t;
    var duration = data.entry.media$group.media$content[0].duration;
  }
</script>
</head>
  <body>
    <script 
      type="text/javascript" 
      src="http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/faXwJ9TfX9g?alt=json-in-script&amp;callback=processData"&gt;
    </script> 
  </body>
</html>

slack3r 2010-01-22 22:25:34

Answer 3

+1 A:

I've been trying to use the above example in a chrome extension I'm working on. It's an extension for scrobbling songs played on youtube to my last.fm account. I'm mostly interested in retrieving information about the duration of the song. The following code examples are taking from my extension content script (http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/content_scripts.html)

Simple code to extract the video ID:

var videoID = document.URL.replace(/^[^v]+v.(.{11}).*/,"$1"); // get video id from URL

Then different approaches to use the code above:

var script = document.createElement("script");
script.setAttribute("type", "text/javascript");    
script.setAttribute("src", "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/"+ videoID +"?alt=json-in-script&callback=processData");

document.getElementsByTagName('head')[0].appendChild(script);

function processData(data) {
    var title = data.entry.title.$t;
    var duration = data.entry.media$group.media$content[0].duration;
}

And alternately, using a helper function:

function loadJSON(url) {
  var headID = document.getElementsByTagName("head")[0];         
  var newScript = document.createElement('script');
      newScript.type = 'text/javascript';
      newScript.src = url;
  headID.appendChild(newScript);
}

loadJSON("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/"+ videoID +"?alt=json-in-script&callback=processData");

Any help would be much appreciated, thanks.

mortenfriis 2010-02-06 18:43:35

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