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YouTube GDATA playlist feed of user containing spaces

I am using:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/johndoe/playlists?alt=json

to parse the json object.

However this works only if the user is a single word.

How to make this feed work for users that have multiple words in their names?

Example:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/JOHN DOE/playlists?alt=json

Solution

  • Apparently, spaces are not allowed in youtube user ID.

    Where spaces are allowed (for example in search query), they are encoded as %20 as usual in http requests:

    http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?alt=json&q=dogs%20cats