YouTube.js

A simple JS class for working with YouTube's json API.

Demo: http://youtubejs.prototypeapp.com/

Usage:

Create a YouTube object, passing in params.

Call a method, passing it an options hash and a function.

var youtube = new YouTubeJS();

youtube.videoFeed({
  user : 'sxtxixtxcxh'
}, function(videos){
  // do whatever with the results.
  // for example: 
  youtube.forEach(videos, function(video){ 
    console.log( youtube.embedCode(video.id) ) 
  });
});

Public methods:

• videoInfo( videoId (string), callback (function) )
• videoFeed( params (object), callback (function) )
  valid params:
  • user (string, required) - a youtube username
  • orderby (string) - can be published (default), rating, or viewCount
  • perpage (int) - videos to return per page (default: 10)
  • start (int) - page number to start on (default: 10)
• videoSearch( params (object), callback (function) )
  valid params:
  • query (string, required) - a search term
  • orderby (string) - can be relevance (default), published, rating, or viewCount
  • perpage (int) - videos to return per page (default: 10)
  • start (int) - page number to start on (default: 10)
  • safesearch (string) - can be none, moderate, or strict

Helper methods:

• forEach( object, function, context)
• embedCode( video (string or video object), flashParams (object) )
  valid flash params:
  • width - int (default: 425)
  • height - int (default: 344)

I'll be honest, I haven't looked at this code in almost a year, and I've nearly forgotten how to use it.

Hopefully, I'll get more time and clean this up a bit more. The code looks to be fairly well commented, but I don't have time to go through it; I just wanted to get this on github.