youtube metadata on windows phone

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I am planning to develop an app for the windows phone.

In this app actually, I need some metadata from youtube for each user, especially the videos they like and their playlists on youtube. But, as I started to google for it, I came across this news that youtube apis are not fully supported on windows phone.

http://www.infoworld.com/t/windows-phone/in-blocking-windows-phone-access-youtube-google-delivers-rough-justice-210116

So, I wanted to know whether this feature can be implemented in windows phone app or not?

score 0 · Accepted Answer · edited May 23 '17 at 11:48

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GData APIs work just fine on WP7/WP8 AFAIK. IANAL but it works fine and I haven't seen any official disclaimer saying it won't/shouldn't work. I believe this article has more to do about streaming video APIs then GData APIs.

You can see a sample of those APIs and how to use them in the official docs and in this previous answer of mine @ Possible to play Youtube video in a wp7 app?

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answered Jan 08 '13 at 23:44

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so i can get all the data I want..right? [user's likes and their playlists] – Yash Jan 09 '13 at 11:06
AFAIK, yes. This isn't legal advice though. – JustinAngel Jan 09 '13 at 18:48

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 08 '13 at 23:59

You can get the user metadata using YouTube Data API v3.

https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/playlists

from the documentation:

YouTube also uses playlists to identify special collections of videos for a channel, such as:

uploaded videos

favorite videos

positively rated (liked) videos

watch history

watch later

The API can be consumed from any client, if you use any JSON library and OAUTH2 authentication.

This project shows how to do it;

https://yt-topic-explorer.googlecode.com/git/dist/index.html

youtube metadata on windows phone

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