Checking validity of YouTube video with PHP

[defroster]

Hello,

 

I embed some YouTube videos on my site. Sometimes a video is deleted from YouTube and I have no way of knowing. Does anyone know if there is some php script or by using their API you can check if a video has:

 

- video has been removed

- video is not embeddable any more

 

any ideas? Thanks

/df

[defroster]

I see if I use this I can get a lot of information from the video but not if it is embeddable or not.

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/i9gucBfZ1qg

 

and if a video is invalid and I use the link above I get a page that says

'Video not found'

 

- How could I use this information to loop through a set of links (from own database) and it would tell me if it is valid or not?

- Any ideas how to check also if it is embeddable?

 

Thanks

[Hate]

Here's something I just came up with just messing around. I know it's probably not the best to use, but hopefully it will give you an idea on what to do.

 

$video_ids = array("vg0x0pUXEKE", "8eDmYGXHzdQ", "87654321", "_ElORM9O-0U", "12345678", "Fr777bGKD9g");

foreach($video_ids as $video_id)
{

    $curl = curl_init("http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/" . $video_id);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_HEADER, true);
    curl_setopt($curl, CURLOPT_RETURNTRANSFER, 1);
    curl_exec($curl);
    $request = curl_getinfo($curl);
    curl_close($curl);

    $result = explode(";", $request["content_type"]);
    
    if($result[0] == "application/atom+xml")
    {

        // Video exists

    } else {

        // Video doesn't exist

    }

}

 

I'm not sure how to check if embedding is allowed on the video, but I'm sure you would probably have to use their API for that.

[defroster]

Thanks a million! Very nice That worked great. I wonder if there is a way to check for embedding.. Hmm