Get title of YouTube video

Question

What is the easiest way to get the title of a single YouTube video in Android? I'm using the Android YouTube API to play video's but they don't return a title cause it only supports playback options. The only thing I need is to display the title of the video, I obviously have the video ID itself but I don't have a clue where to start.

Things I looked at:

• YouTube Data API
• JSOUP(I can see the tag but don't know how to get it)

For some reason I find it hard to understand how to use them and this seems like a really simple action to me. I'm curious if there is an easier option or if there is someone who can help me get on the right track with this.

Answer 1

You can use this code for this purpose.

public class SimpleYouTubeHelper {

public static String getTitleQuietly(String youtubeUrl) {
    try {
        if (youtubeUrl != null) {
            URL embededURL = new URL("http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=" +
                youtubeUrl + "&format=json"
            );

            return new JSONObject(IOUtils.toString(embededURL)).getString("title");
        }

    } catch (Exception e) {
        e.printStackTrace();
    }
    return null;
}
}

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