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

GData is deprecated, but one can still get the video description by calling this endpoint:

https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?part=snippet&id=[video_id]&key=[api_key]

It will return a response of the form:

{
 "kind": "youtube#videoListResponse",
 "etag": "\"...\"",
 "pageInfo": {
  "totalResults": 1,
  "resultsPerPage": 1
 },
 "items": [
  {
   "kind": "youtube#video",
   "etag": "\"...\"",
   "id": "...",
   "snippet": {
    "publishedAt": "...",
    "channelId": "...",
    "title": "...",
    "description": "...",
    "thumbnails": { ... },
    "channelTitle": "...",
    "tags": [ ... ],
    "categoryId": "...",
    "liveBroadcastContent": "...",
    "localized": {
     "title": "...",
     "description": "..."
    },
    "defaultAudioLanguage": "..."
   }
  }
 ]
}

The description can be found at items.localized.description.