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Has anyone been able to set who can view a private video on YouTube using the API?
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The API isn't designed for this, so it's either very difficult or impossible.
You can only share a private video with 25 of your friends, so you have to first be friends with them, then give them access, which means the api would have to do all of these actions and once you hit 25 people you'd have to stop anyway.
You should probably use a different service or make your own if you want private videos.
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Well you could try to load the FLV to your own website. Do a login system and use flowplayer to show it.
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