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Get Channel Home Page URL from Json via PHP

I'm using JSON to get the video title, description, and author from the Youtube JSON API. How do I get the author's home page URL?

Data

I'm trying to get this.

I also noticed that sometimes, it's not youtube.com/channel/xxxx, but rather youtube.com/user/xxxx when I look at this:

hxxp://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/hha0NsYXS5c?alt=json&prettyprint=true hxxps://www.youtube.com/user/TEDtalksDirector

Solution

  • For the example of

    http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/I6YeYnOTC-k?alt=json&prettyprint=true

    1. Get the URI of the author, given by the API (in this case "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/Zdr_9XUM9vrmkscUwnF42w")
    2. Make a request to get JSON-Output of the user
    3. Get the channel url under the link-href element(http://www.youtube.com/channel/UCZdr_9XUM9vrmkscUwnF42w)

    In the end you just grab the URI of the author, send a request to it and filter the JSON-Output.