How to get the embed HTML code for a video hosted in youtube programmatically

Question

How to get the embed HTML code for a video hosted in youtube programmatically. What Java API is available

Answer 1

Use the YouTube Data API (there's pre-built GData client libraries, or you can do the HTTP/XML stuff yourself).

One of the <media:content/> entries will contain a URL for the embeddable SWF, if the video is embeddable.

Answer 2

Assuming you have the URL of the video, it's fairly simple to generate one. You need the end of the URL (the part after the /watch?v=, let's call it ID). To generate the iframe embed html, just place it in the appropriate place (in the src attribute, don't include the brackets):

<iframe title="YouTube video player" class="youtube-player" type="text/html" width="640"
height="390" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/{ID}" frameborder="0"
allowFullScreen></iframe>

There are a couple of ways to get the v parameter from the URL. A regular expression would work.