Getting title and description of embedded YouTube video

Question

On a site I\'m developing I embed videos from YouTube and want to get the video title and its description.

How do I get that information?

Answer 1

Youtube API V2.0 has been deprecated. It shows some wrong value for title "youtube.com/devicesupport" . pLease switch on to API V3.0

YOu can refer the following PHP code and modify yours in js or jquery as per your needs..

function youtube_title($id) {
 $id = 'YOUTUBE_ID';
// returns a single line of JSON that contains the video title. Not a giant request.
$videoTitle = file_get_contents("https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id=".$id."&key=YOUR_API_KEY&fields=items(id,snippet(title),statistics)&part=snippet,statistics");
// despite @ suppress, it will be false if it fails
if ($videoTitle) {
$json = json_decode($videoTitle, true);

return $json['items'][0]['snippet']['title'];
} else {
return false;
}
}

update:

Jquery code to get the title-

 $.getJSON('https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id={VIDEOID}&key={YOUR API KEY}&part=snippet&callback=?',function(data){
    if (typeof(data.items[0]) != "undefined") {
        console.log('video exists ' + data.items[0].snippet.title);
       } else {
        console.log('video not exists');
     }   
    });