How can I obtain a youtube video title from a known id for a webmatrix site?

Question

I would like to retrieve the title of a video using the YouTube atom feed here: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/uRTXEjjrOko I would then like to add this title to my database. How would I do that?

Answer 1

Linq TO XML is the recommended API for working with XML. You would get the title like this:

@using System.Xml.Linq;
@{
    var url = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/uRTXEjjrOko";
    var video = XDocument.Load(url);
    XNamespace media = video.Root.GetNamespaceOfPrefix("media");
    var title = video.Descendants(media + "title").First().Value;
}

If you wanted to get the link to a thumbnail, you would do this:

var thumbnail = video.Descendants(media + "thumbnail").First().Attribute("url").Value;

There are actually 4 thumbnail links. The code above just grabs the first one. Once you have extracted all the values you want, you can use them along with your SQL in the Database.Execute method.