This is great. I have a contract next month with a local company looking to build a video site in their niche (elementary education tools). I'll be using this for sure :)
Do you guys have an API?
Do you guys have an API?
Building an API, however, is very high up on my list of things to do though. What kind of things would you like to see in an API? I think we have another, very large, customer who needs an API too so I'll try to get something set up ASAP.
- a way to directly upload a video from a file select field (http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_pro...)
- a unique identifier for the video I can then store in my database with other metadata (which user uploaded it, when, etc). If you want to expose other metadata on the video like compressed size, number of views, etc that'd be great but not yet necessary
- a standardized way to embed the videos based on the unique id (above)