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

I read this topic a bit in delay. I did something like this using jSON and YT API's

$json = json_decode( file_get_contents("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/".$rs['vid']."?v=2&prettyprint=true&alt=jsonc") );

Note: $rs['vid'] is the video ID dinamically retrived from my DB.

Once you put the contents in the handle $json you can retrive like this:

$json->data->description;
$json->data->title;

use var_dump( $json ) to view all values you can access.