Get Youtube Video Thumbnail and Other Information with PHP and Youtube API

YouTube api version 2 provides all necessary information about videos on YouTube. If you want to create a video gallery or want to embed YouTube videos on your website then it can give you extra power.

In this post I am going to show you how to get YouTube videos information like video title, description, thumbnail and other information with YouTube JSON api and php.

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Youtube API Function

youtube function receives YouTube video url as parameter. It automatically extracts video id from url and sends request to YouTube api server through curl.

/**
 * Youtube
 *
 * @version YouTube API V2
 * @param str youtube video url
 * @return object || void
 * @copyright w3bees.com
 */
function youtube($url)
{
  # get video id from url
  $urlQ = parse_url( $url, PHP_URL_QUERY );
  parse_str( $urlQ, $query );

  # YouTube api v2 url
  $apiURL = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/'. $query['v'] .'?v=2&alt=jsonc';

  # curl options
  $options = array(
    CURLOPT_URL  => $apiURL,
    CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_BINARYTRANSFER => true,
    CURLOPT_SSL_VERIFYPEER => false,
    CURLOPT_TIMEOUT => 5 );

  # connect api server through cURL
  $ch = curl_init();
  curl_setopt_array($ch, $options);
  # execute cURL
  $json = curl_exec($ch) or die( curl_error($ch) );
  # close cURL connect
  curl_close($ch);

  # decode json encoded data
  if ($data = json_decode($json))
    return (object) $data->data;
}

Usages

youtube function returns all information as object.

# call youtube api function
$youtube = youtube('http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxxxxxxxxx');
# title
$youtube->title;
# duration in seconds
$youtube->duration;
#video description
$youtube->description;
# thumbnail url High Quality
$youtube->thumbnail->hqDefault;
# thumbnail url Small Quality
$youtube->thumbnail->sqDefault;
# video rating out of five
$youtube->rating;
# total likes
$youtube->likeCount;
# video category
$youtube->category;
# total view
$youtube->viewCount;
# time upload time
$youtube->uploaded;

Multiple File Upload with Progress Bar using PHP & jQuery

Some days age I have created a post that deals with How we can upload file with progress bar using php and jQuery. Some of my readers asked me how we can upload multiple files with progress bar. In this post I am going to show you how we can upload multiple files with progress bar.We can upload multiple files with progress bar exactly same way as I shown previous. But we need to do some modification with our file upload form and our php script to handle multiple files.

Force File Download with PHP

If you want to control or track your downloadable contents then a force file downloader script can give you more option. Especially if you want make images or other stemming contents like music file (mp3, wav, ogg), video files (flv, mp4, ogg, 3gpp), css, JavaScripts or even a php file downloadable then you must need to use a force file downloader script.
In this post I am going to share a simple but useful force file downloader script.

File Upload with Progress Bar using jQuery and PHP

In this post you will learn how to create a AJAX file uploading system with progress bar using jQuery and PHP. For this purpose we will going to use jQuery Form Plugin. It is a easy to use and powerful jQuery AJAX form submitting plugin. It supports XMLHttpRequest Level 2 and iframe file transportation. That's why it will work for both old and new browsers.

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