Day: October 13, 2007

Recently I have been working on something involving the use of video content from You Tube. With the lack of a good API out there I created my own. Below is a simple example of this working with sample code to download further below.

AS3 Example

Actionscript:
import com.FlashDynamix.services.YouTube;
import com.FlashDynamix.events.YouTubeEvent;
//
var yt:YouTube = new YouTube();
yt.APIKey = "WplekwLy_Nw";
function onLoaded(e:YouTubeEvent) {
switch (e.method) {
case YouTube.VIDEOSBYTAG :
try {
for each (var video:XML in data) {
trace(video.name() + " : " + video);
}
trace("Videos For Tag : " + e.request.tag + " : " + e.data.length());
} catch (evt:ArgumentError) {
trace("ERROR : No Videos For Tag");
}
}
}
//
yt.addEventListener(YouTubeEvent.COMPLETE, onLoaded);
yt.videosbyTag("Top Gear");

AS2 example

Actionscript:
import com.FlashDynamix.services.YouTube;
//
var yt:YouTube = new YouTube();
yt.APIKey = "WplekwLy_Nw";
var obj:Object = new Object();
obj.loaded = function(evt:EventArgs) {
switch (evt.type) {
case YouTube.VIDEOSBYTAG :
var videos = evt.value.video;
break;
}
};
//
yt.addListeners(obj);
yt.videosbyTag("Top Gear");

The class I created YouTube.as supports all the features listed on the YouTube API documentation here http://www.youtube.com/dev_docs

Download the source here