How to get the id of the latest uploaded video in

Question

In youtube How do i get the id of the latest uploaded video (the one that comes in the url like v=....) of a channel to which Im subscribed, for embeded
im using php in my server side

Answer 1

As of April 20, 2015, it looks like the answer mentioned above may no longer work. Here's an example using a YouTube Channel ID (can be found in the source of a Channel page.)

<?php

$id = NULL;
$channel_id = 'someChannelID';

$xml = simplexml_load_file(sprintf('https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=%s', $channel_id));

if (!empty($xml->entry[0]->children('yt', true)->videoId[0])){
    $id = $xml->entry[0]->children('yt', true)->videoId[0];
}

echo $id; // Outputs the video ID.

Answer 2

Here's a example using the YouTube RSS feeds, simplexml_load_file, parse_url, and parse_str.

<?php

$id = NULL;
$username = 'YouTube';

$xml = simplexml_load_file(sprintf('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/base/users/%s/uploads?alt=rss&v=2&orderby=published', $username));

if ( ! empty($xml->channel->item[0]->link) )
{
  parse_str(parse_url($xml->channel->item[0]->link, PHP_URL_QUERY), $url_query);

  if ( ! empty($url_query['v']) )
    $id = $url_query['v'];
}

echo $id; // Outputs the video ID.

Answer 3

Same here as with Greg Brendel. YT did make some changes: "As we upgrade the YouTube Data API to bring more features, we’ll begin shutting down the old version on April 20, 2015. This will result in the current YouTube app not working on certain device models from 2012 and older."

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/6098135?p=yt_devicesupport&hl=en&rd=1

Answer 4

Here's how to do it via the YouTube API once you set up your API Key.

<?php

$channel_id = 'someChannelId';
$api_key = 'yourAPIKey';

$json_url="https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/playlistItems?part=snippet&playlistId=".$channel_id."&key=".$api_key;
$json = file_get_contents($json_url);
$listFromYouTube=json_decode($json);
$id = $listFromYouTube->items[0]->snippet->resourceId->videoId;

echo $id; // Outputs the video ID.

Generating your API Key:

1. Goto - https://console.developers.google.com
2. Create a new project
3. Select "APIs & auth"
4. Select "APIs"
5. Select "Youtube Data API v3" and enable it
6. Select "Credentials"
7. Create new Key, select browser and then press create (don't enter anything in the text box)