How to validate youtube video ids? gdata.youtube.com is not working

Question

I am trying to validate youtube video ids..get some info from youtube-validation...but its not working seems http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/VIDEO_ID is no more active link or depricated. Any help would be more appriciated.

Answer 1

Check out the Youtube Google API Explorer, specifically the youtube.videos.list service. If you issue a request such as https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=id&id=VIDEO_ID, (you must be authenticated) it should return a response with the video info under the items attribute. If items is empty, a video with that id does not exist. For example, a valid video may return a JSON response like this:

{
 "kind": "youtube#videoListResponse",
 "etag": "\"fpJ9onbY0Rl_LqYLG6rOCJ9h9N8/2sdqvy58GwqpgneamWQjMdcDsqc\"",
 "pageInfo": {
  "totalResults": 1,
  "resultsPerPage": 1
 },
 "items": [
  {
   "kind": "youtube#video",
   "etag": "\"fpJ9onbY0Rl_LqYLG6rOCJ9h9N8/u5C_LXE-00OOvmXch-wqbcTQQ5Q\"",
   "id": "VapbvTq8GOE"
  }
 ]
}

But if the video id is invalid, items will be empty []