Best way to get youtube title?

Question

I found this code snippet to retrieve the title from a YouTube video and it works,

<?php
$video_id = 'y8Kyi0WNg40';
$content = file_get_contents("http://youtube.com/get_video_info?video_id=" . $video_id);
parse_str($content, $ytarr);
echo $ytarr['title'];
?>

however many people say that this method is not safe for some reason and they should use cURL with YouTube's API, can you please explain why this method(file_get_contents) is not safe.

And if so I will appreciate a link to a tutorial or example on using cURL to achieve the same results as the code above.

dup of: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1760231/how-do-i-get-the-title-of-a-youtube-video-if-i-have-the-video-id — Nir Alfasi, Jun 21 '12 at 22:11

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Jun 21 '12 at 22:03

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You can use file_get_contents("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/".$video_id); to parse more easily since is XML format

If you want to use cURL try this tutorial

answered Jun 21 '12 at 22:03

Ciro

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