A while ago, I penned an article on using YouTube on Rails, explaining the basics of interacting with the YouTube API. The previous article covered how to fetch video information and use the YouTube IFrame API to manipulate video player. Later, another article, Uploading Videos to YouTube with Rails, was released showing how to create an app that allows users to upload videos directly to YouTube.
The Youtube_it gem was used for both demos. Both of my posts garnered quite an bit of comments, which I appreciate.
youtube_it is a great gem, however, it employs version 2 of the YouTube API, which is now officially deprecated and will no longer be supported after April 20th, 2015. Ouch.
Fortunately, Claudiofullscreen saved the day by creating a new gem called yt (now that's a short name) that utilizes version 3 of the YouTube API.
In this article, we are going to build an app similar to the one that was introduced in the "YouTube on Rails" and "Uploading Videos to YouTube with Rails" posts, but make it work with version 3 of the YouTube API.
Continue reading %YouTube API, Version 3 on Rails%
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