youtube-g gem

Gem details

youtube-g is a pure Ruby client for the YouTube GData API. It provides an easy way to access the latest YouTube video search results from your own programs. In comparison with the earlier Youtube search interfaces, this new API and library offers much-improved flexibility around executing complex search queries to obtain well-targeted video search results.

Websitehttp://rubyforge.org/projects/youtube-g/ Tags YouTube

Documentation

Install the Gem: 
gem install youtube-g

Create a client: 

  require 'rubygems'
  require 'youtube_g'
  client = YouTubeG::Client.new



Basic queries: 

  client.videos_by(:query => "penguin")
  client.videos_by(:tags => ['tiger', 'leopard'])
  client.videos_by(:categories => [:news, :sports])
  client.videos_by(:categories => [:news, :sports], :tags => ['soccer', 'football'])
  client.videos_by(:user => 'liz')



Standard feeds: 

  client.videos_by(:most_viewed)
  client.videos_by(:top_rated, :time => :today)



Advanced queries (with boolean operators OR (either), AND (include), NOT (exclude)): 

  client.videos_by(:categories => { :either => [:news, :sports], :exclude => [:comedy] }, :tags => { :include => ['football'], :exclude => ['soccer'] })

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