Get all video id's from YouTube playlist

Question

I'm working on an app that shows YouTube video's from one of my own YouTube playlists. I'm using the YouTube Android API to get this done. I use YouTubeThumbnailView to show the video's, I can of course get the playlist in one YouTubeThumbnailView, but I'm looking for a way to get all the video's from the playlist and store them in a string array so I can create a ListView to show all video's.

So the only thing I need are the ID's, then I can get this working. I looked at the Video Wall demo but can't find what I need, beside that it FC on my Nexus 7.

Answer 1

Oops! beat you to it :-)

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You need to parse the JSON array data and get the correct string.

Something like this:

 // For further information about the syntax of this request and JSON-C
 // see the documentation on YouTube http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_jsonc.html

  // Get are search result items
  JSONArray jsonArray = json.getJSONObject("data").getJSONArray("items");


        // Create a list to store are videos in
        List<Video> videos = new ArrayList<Video>();
        // Loop round our JSON list of videos creating Video objects to use within our app
        for (int i = 0; i < jsonArray.length(); i++) {
            JSONObject jsonObject = jsonArray.getJSONObject(i);
            // The title of the video
            String title = jsonObject.getString("title");
            // The url link back to YouTube, this checks if it has a mobile url
            // if it doesnt it gets the standard url
            String url;
            try {
                url = jsonObject.getJSONObject("player").getString("mobile");
            } catch (JSONException ignore) {
                url = jsonObject.getJSONObject("player").getString("default");
            }
            // A url to the thumbnail image of the video
            // We will use this later to get an image using a Custom ImageView
            // Found here http://blog.blundellapps.com/imageview-with-loading-spinner/
            String thumbUrl = jsonObject.getJSONObject("thumbnail").getString("sqDefault");

            // Create the video object and add it to our list
            videos.add(new Video(title, url, thumbUrl));
        }