YouTube launches API for uploading videos from any web site

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YouTube launches API for uploading videos from any web site

by Brad Linder Mar 12th 2008

One of the moves that has made YouTube successful is the ability to embed YouTube videos on any site. Now YouTube is going a few steps further and giving web developers tools that will let users upload and edit YouTube videos from any web page.

What that means is you can essentially build a web page that lets visitors upload videos of kittens and puppies doing cute things, send video responses to one another, edit their video metadata, and never ever have to click through to YouTube, even though all of the transcoding and file hosting is taking place on a Google server.

Web developers can also customize the look and feel of the YouTube video player using a new Javascript API.

[via ReadWriteWeb]

Tags: api, online-video, platform, youtube

Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

PCD said 10:06PM on 3-13-2008

Yooo YouTube... How about you stop compressing the beeejeezzies out of our "action" videos so they don't end up looing like a piece straight out of Picasso's cubism era!

Until then you can have your API and I'll continue posting my videos at VIMEO.com..!

nithya said 7:36AM on 3-18-2008

I want to upload the videos and stream video on my asp.net project using YouTube APIs.is it possible.i need sample code for this.

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