Get YouTube Video Description (YouTube API) for iOS

Question

I'm working on an info app about a singer. Now I have to integrate her YouTube videos, playlists and comments on the videos, but I found no appropriate way to do it. This could be JSON returning a value, or just simple API that lets you receive info about a particular video on YouTube.

Answer 1

Use the videos/list endpoint of the YouTube v3 API with these parameters:

part -> snippet

id -> The video's video_id, example: jCHE0Tjw6MA

HTTP GET https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=jCHE0Tjw6MA&key={YOUR_API_KEY}

Swift:

let task = NSURLSession.sharedSession().dataTaskWithURL(NSURL(string: "https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=jCHE0Tjw6MA&key={YOUR_API_KEY}")!, completionHandler: { (data, response, error) -> Void in
    do {
        if let parsedResponse: [String : AnyObject] = try NSJSONSerialization.JSONObjectWithData(data!, options: NSJSONReadingOptions.AllowFragments) as? [String : AnyObject] {

            let description = parsedResponse["items"]![0]["description"] // the first item's decsription
            print(description) // "███████████████████▌HD / HQ Official Music Video ███████████████████▌\r\n\r\nReal Life - Send Me An Angel\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\nreal life send me an angel official music video hq hd 1983 89 lyrics live cover remix extended original"
        }


    }
    catch {
        print("json error: \(error)")
    }

})
task.resume()