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<cfset devid = "changethis">

<cfset yt = createObject("component", "youtube").init(devid)>

<!--- get videos by user --->
<cfdump var="#yt.getVideosByUser('joerinehart')#" label="Videos by user.">

<!--- get music videos tagged Lush --->
<cfdump var="#yt.getVideosByCategoryAndTag(10,'Lush')#" label="Lush music videos." top="10">

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• Comment 1 written by Tampa ColdFusion on 21 August 2007, at 10:51 PM

  

  This is downright freaky! You are reading my mind! I just googled "YouTube CFC" yesterday and didn't find much. I looked over their API and thought "hmmm, I could build one... if I ever get the time."
  
  Thanks for saving me the time!

• Comment 2 written by CeeVee on 22 August 2007, at 9:57 AM

  

  Really cool Ray. How would we sort the results of a keyword search by most recent upload?

• Comment 3 written by Raymond Camden on 22 August 2007, at 9:59 AM

  

  Just use query of query on the results.

• Comment 4 written by CeeVee on 22 August 2007, at 11:02 AM

  

  Thanks for the above response.
  
  Another simple question... using the getVideosByTag function, how would I get the total # of records returned so I could set up "paging" links? It seems that I need to have a default perpage value. Without the total # of records returned based on my search term, I cannot create the paging links.

• Comment 5 written by Raymond Camden on 22 August 2007, at 12:09 PM

  

  It is not currently in the API.
  
  FYI, I have a very cool demo I'll be blogging soon. Mixes CF8+YouTube.cfc together.

• Comment 6 written by CeeVee on 23 August 2007, at 7:57 AM

  

  I contacted YouTube API dev forum about finding the total number of records when searching by a tag. Here was their response:
  
  "Each youtube.videos.list_by_tag response includes the
  video_list.total element, which contains the total
  number of records."
  
  I can't figure out what I need to do using your CFC to view the total number of records. Am I missing something? Could you help?

• Comment 7 written by Raymond Camden on 23 August 2007, at 8:00 AM

  

  My code doesn't support it - so it isn't anyhting you are doing wrong. I'll see if I can add this today. Most likely I will forget to post back here - so watch youtubecfc.riaforge.org for the update.

• Comment 8 written by CeeVee on 23 August 2007, at 8:10 AM

  

  Thanks so much! I was pretty sure this was possible. I'm glad you'll be incorporating this.
  
  BTW, either go buy Bioshock or add to your wishlist. It's amazing.

• Comment 9 written by Raymond Camden on 23 August 2007, at 8:15 AM

  

  Bioshock is already on my wishlist - and already bought. :)
  
  Ok the code is done. I'll be uploading to RIAForge in 5 minutes.

• Comment 10 written by FALCONSEYE on 16 October 2008, at 1:46 PM

  

  Hey Raymond,
  I am trying to use your cfc to upload videos to youtube but got some errors.
  The cfhttp statement on youtube.cfc line 484 is not returning anything. When I do a cfdump, I see an empty authtoken. Could you please help?

• Comment 11 written by Raymond Camden on 16 October 2008, at 1:50 PM

  

  Falconseye - This was discussed on another blog entry of mine, but there is a bug w/ CF7 and 8 that is blocking this feature. This HAS been fixed by Adobe and Adobe WILL be releasing a hot fix. Once they do, I'll be announcing the hot fix and uploading my latest YouTubeCFC. I was told sometime this week.

• Comment 12 written by FALCONSEYE on 16 October 2008, at 2:41 PM

  

  Thanks Raymond. I got an authtoken back from my upload. My code is :
  
  <cfset devid = "AI39si4J8K77YGl7yRXabWq9CFb0M-86TcuYFcYlEmnMDv4XL3OtoK7q1N4ApXYC5Y5ntbFurXGCmGi_U8mRy-CdUHezoMLIXQ">
  
  <cfset yt = createObject("component", "youtube")>
  <cfset yt.setDeveloperKey("#devid#")>
  
  <cfset yt.login("myUserName", "myPassword")>
  <cfset r = yt.upload('video.wmv','Test Upload','Playing with youtube','Music','testing,fun')>
  
  This returns no error. When I do the following:
  
  
  <cfdump var="#yt.getVideosByUser('myUserName')#" label="Videos by user.">
  
  The cfdump returns nothing. Do you think this is still caused by the same problem?

• Comment 13 written by Raymond Camden on 16 October 2008, at 2:43 PM

  

  No - but I'd just hold off. The new CFC updates a lot of code.

• Comment 14 written by Jason Brookins on 20 October 2008, at 11:31 AM

  

  @Ray:
  
  Any word on the hotfix for CF7/CF8 from Adobe?
  
  Also, what is the best way to go about tweaking the YouTube CFC for CF7 usage?

• Comment 15 written by Jason Brookins on 20 October 2008, at 11:35 AM

  

  Another note at the YouTube Developer Site:
  
  "The APIs accessed by this developer ID program have been deprecated and are no longer supported. To use the new APIs or get information about migrating your applications, please visit the YouTube Developer site at code.google.com."
  
  Does that impact YouTube CFC?

• Comment 16 written by Raymond Camden on 20 October 2008, at 11:51 AM

  

  @Jason - 1: Not yet. I just checked. I'll give them a day or two and check again. Please feel free to remind me here.
  
  @Jason - 2: It should be CF7 compat. The hot fix they are releasing will be for CF7 as well. If I did use any CF8 functionality, it was probably by accident and a small snippet like X++, which would need to change to x=x+1.
  
  @Jason - 3: This was all tested with the new API.

• Comment 17 written by Sasha on 11 November 2008, at 2:50 PM

  

  I checked the demo of this CFC, its really great. BUT, I am unable to find how you display the videos for a search query when youtube gdata returns no videos. For example : "Sizzling Model Scorch The Runway " query on youtube.com doesnt return any videos, but it returns the videos for "runway model" and so does your cfc example/demo page, but when I use your cfc files and do the same search, I do not get any videos in return. Please advice.

• Comment 18 written by Raymond Camden on 11 November 2008, at 3:12 PM

  

  I see you emailed me directly. I responded there asking for some sample code.

• Comment 19 written by Anthony Escribens on 5 October 2009, at 8:58 PM

  

  Hello Ray!
  
  First of, great job on youtube.cfc !
  
  Do you have an example on how to delete a video? I saw the function on the .cfc page and tried calling it using the following:
  
  <cfset yt = createObject("component", "/yt/youtube")>
  <cfset yt.setDeveloperKey("mydevkey")>
  <cfset yt.login("myusername", "mypassword")>
  <cfset r = yt.delete('#form.deleteytvideoid#')>
  
  But it doesn't seem to be working. I'm only passing the video id as "form.deleteytvideoid". I am missing anything?
  
  Thanks!
  Anthony

• Comment 20 written by Anthony Escribens on 5 October 2009, at 9:33 PM

  

  Hello Again Ray! :)
  
  I found the answer to my question above.
  
  The url had actually changed to:
  
  <cfset var theurl = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/#variable...;
  
  Now it's working!
  
  Thanks again for a great code and everything you do for the CF Community!
  
  - Anthony

• Comment 21 written by Raymond Camden on 5 October 2009, at 11:08 PM

  

  Glad you got it.

• Comment 22 written by Anthony Escribens on 7 October 2009, at 7:15 AM

  

  Ray,
  
  When uploading a video, what does it mean when I get this error:
  
  "YouTubeCFC Upload Error: Domain=yt:validation, Code=too_short"
  
  Does it have to do with the number of entries into the video name or description?
  
  Thanks,
  Anthony

• Comment 23 written by Raymond Camden on 7 October 2009, at 10:33 AM

  

  Sometimes YouTube can be a real pain about the data you sent - especially in the keywords area. Can you send me the code you used to upload? It's probably something in that area.

• Comment 24 written by Anthony Escribens on 7 October 2009, at 6:00 PM

  

  This is the code I ran:
  
  <cfset yt = createObject("component", "/yt/youtube")>
  <cfset yt.setDeveloperKey("<key>")>
  <cfset yt.login("<login>", "<password>")>
  <cfset r = yt.upload('<path_to_video>','Cow Test Number 3','This is a test description for the new cause/project.','Music','Cow Test Number 3, United States, Charity, Donation, Help, ')>
  
  - Anthony

• Comment 25 written by Raymond Camden on 8 October 2009, at 12:26 AM

  

  Ahah. The issue is YouTube's freaky keyword parsing. You are not allowed to use a keyword with a space in it. So your "Cow Test Number 3" becomes "Cow,Test,Number,3". 3 is too short for a keyword. Just get rid of it.

• Comment 26 written by Anthony Escribens on 9 October 2009, at 5:03 PM

  

  Yes, that did the trick. Thanks again Ray!

• Comment 27 written by santosh on 15 December 2009, at 12:09 AM

  

  hello ray,how can we increment the no.of results more than 25.I have a problem regarding getvideosbycategoryandtag() this function is in the 2007 model of cfc.But in the new cfc it doesnot exist so i tried it in a different way.First i searched thru the tag and then filtered the results with the category the user has selected.but iam getting less results by doing filtering.By searching thru tag iam getting only 25 video results how to increament it in order to get more results after filtering also.
  this is my code:
  <cfset yt = createObject("component", "youtube")>
  <cfset result = yt.getVideosByTag('#form.tag#')>
  <!---<cfdump var="#result#">--->
  <table width="100%" height="100%" border="0">
  <cfoutput>
  <cfset catname = "#form.cat#">
  <h4>Reslts for Tag : <em>#form.tag#</em> and Category : <em>#catname#</em></h4>
  <cfloop query="result" >
  <cfif catname eq "#result.CATEGORIES#">
  <cfset vid=listgetAt('#result.THUMBNAIL_URl#',4, '/')>
  <tr><td>Title :  #result.TITLE#</td></tr>
  <tr><td><a href="test_getvideo.cfm?v=#vid#" ><img src="#result.THUMBNAIL_URL#" /></a></td></tr>
  </cfif>
  </cfloop>
  </cfoutput>
  </table>
  
  the function i used is:
  
  <!---Changed to GDATA yotube API--->
  <cffunction name="getVideosByTag" access="public" returnType="query" output="false" hint="Searches videos by tag.">
     <cfargument name="tag" type="string" required="true">
     <cfargument name="page" type="numeric" required="false" default="1">
     <cfargument name="perpage" type="numeric" required="false" default="40">
     
     <cfset arguments.perpage = pageFix(arguments.perpage)>
     <cfreturn getVideos("#variables.rooturl#feeds/api/videos?vq=#urlEncodedFormat(arguments.tag)#&page=#arguments.page#&per_page=#arguments.perpage#")>
  </cffunction>

• Comment 28 written by Raymond Camden on 16 December 2009, at 8:37 PM

  

  I'm not quite sure I understand your issue. Did you try increasing the value used for pagesize? Also remember the YouTube's API itself puts a hard cap in - I think at 50.

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