Latest YouTube API Release with Upload and More!

Posted by Stephanie Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools Team

Ever wanted to get in on this online video craze? Now's a good time! The YouTube Data API now supports authentication for YouTube users, upload, and write. On top of that, the world just got a little bit smaller -- you can access our internationalized standard feeds through the API.

Videos that are top rated in France right now:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/fr/top_rated

The most relevant videos about bicycles (vélos) in French:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos?vq=vélos&orderby=relevance_lang_fr

The Java client library and the PHP client library (in the Zend Framework 1.50 RC2 release) have both been updated with support for the new functionality.

Brand new player APIs and tools are also now available. You can control any of our embedded players through JavaScript or Flash. If that isn't enough control for you, the chromeless player allows you to fully customize and skin the player to match your site.

You're so excited, you can't decide what to do next? Read more details over at the YouTube API blog, watch our engineers talk about the new features (on YouTube, where else?), check out the docs, then join the forum.

You can also mark your calendars -- we'll be holding a YouTube / Picasa themed hackathon on March 27th at the Googleplex in Mountain View. Stay tuned for more info.