Retrieving data from a YouTube URL

minute44 · July 7th, 2009, 09:15 AM

I've had an idea for an app but only have some basic PHP knowledge.

I need to know the PHP to be able to enter a YouTube URL into a form field and then have it return the duration of the video along with the number of views.

Anyone?

Dan

Dubbs · July 7th, 2009, 09:57 AM

You can get the number of views if you have the url by getting the HTML source and parsing for

Code:

<div id="watch-views-div">
 <span id="watch-views"><span id="watch-view-count">15,482</span> views</span>
</div>

And getting the views from that.

You may also want to look into Youtube's API to see if there is an option to get those options with it.