How to Get and display the list of youtube videos using javascript

Question

I have written a C code for getting the list of youtube videos for the url \"*http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/standardfeeds/top_rated*\" using the libsoup library. I can

Answer 1

The YouTube API supports JSONP (JavaScript Object Notation w/ Padding). JSONP allows you to make external site requests to gain data. But you don't really need to know all that. The basic idea is you inject a script tag with a request as the src attribute.

But nowadays, you don't really need to do that either unless you want to learn hard-core Javascript. The code is all written for you in brilliant Javascript Libraries. I recommend that you use jQuery to make the JSONP request. jQuery is a simple library that can be used by adding a single line of code to your HTML document.

Once you get jQuery up and running, you can use the getJSON command to parse the JSONP data. At that point, you will get an object with all of the data you need, and you can choose how you want to output the data.