Programmatically determine whether a Youtube video has been taken down

Question

I\'m getting most of the music on Rap Exegesis from YouTube (in the form of embedded players). Unfortunately, there\'s always the risk that one of the videos I\'m using will

Answer 1

The information you need is available via the YouTube API, specifically in the yt:state tag

Depending what language you are programming in there is lots of code around for interacting with the YouTube API.

Post here with more details if you are still having issues getting this to work.