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The YouTube Data API allows developers to get YouTube search results programmatically and to retrieve, insert, update, and delete resources like videos or playlists. Before they can submit API requests, developers will need to register their applications with Google. Combined with the other YouTube APIs, the Data API allows developers to integrate complete YouTube functionality into their applications.

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Best Practices: How to Engage Developers with a World-Class API Portal
One of the hottest topics among API providers has to do with how to best engage developers through a developer portal. In this special report, ProgrammableWeb has compiled a comprehensive list of features (based on real world examples) that all developer portals should aspire to.
10 Top TV APIs
These days, TV viewers have endless channels, networks, streaming platforms, cable platforms, and even endless devices to choose how, where, and when to watch their favorite TV shows. Developers can help viewers out by utilizing these top TV APIs to create applications to reign in all these choices.
Top 10 Video APIs
Considering adding video capabilities to an application? There are numerous APIs to choose from. ProgrammableWeb provides a huge list of Video APIs to accommodate developers. In this article we summarize the top ten choices based on popularity on the ProgrammableWeb website.
13 Top APIs for Search
The ProgrammableWeb directory's Search category contains more than 2000 APIs for adding search technology and functions to websites and applications. Here we filter through popular user favorites and highlight those that developers may find useful for enhancing applications.
How to Discover Channel IDs with the YouTube Data API
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In part 3 of this tutorial, we continue to extend our code and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
How to Discover Playlist IDs with the YouTube Data API
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In part 2 of this tutorial, we'll extend our code from part one and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
New Tool From SmartBear Reverse Engineers API Calls Into OpenAPI Definitions
SmartBear has released a tool that it says is helpful for the testing that API providers might do during the API lifecycle. For example, it can reverse engineer an API definition by inspecting existing API calls. However, the experience is marred by several references to the Swagger specification.
How To Get YouTube Playlist Contents from the YouTube Data API
The YouTube Data API can be used to upload and search for videos, manage playlists and subscriptions, update channel settings and more. In this tutorial, we'll review the YouTube Data API portal and show you how to use the API to build a simple app that can return the contents of a playlist.
Older Versions Of Google's APIs To Go Up In Smoke On 4/20
Google is shutting down a number of deprecated APIs on April 20, including YouTube Data, OpenID, Webmaster Tools, Apps Admin, Documents List and ClientLogin.