Youtube API - Title only

Question

I know that i can get the whole info about a video by using:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/ID

but that outputs a lot of information and im using a regular expression to get the title out of it. I was wondering if there was a way to let that page only output the title and not all the other stuff that i dont need.

Answer 1

Not sure if this will help since I've never worked with youtube api before. I just ran across this info yesterday. According to http://dl.google.com/googleio/2010/googleapis-how-google-builds-apis.pdf you can do a Partial Get (just search that pdf for "Partial Response") by using fields=entry(title) (though I think it's for searching for videos). By querying for the actual video id instead of a string it will return just that one video.

Example:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?v=2&q=[video_id]&max-results=1&fields=entry(title)&prettyprint=true

Answer 2

<?
$id = 'VIDEOID';
$xmlData = simplexml_load_string(file_get_contents("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/{$id}?fields=title"));

$title = (string)$xmlData->title;

echo $title;