How do I get the title of a youtube video if I have the Video Id?
I'm playing now with the Youtube API and I began a small project (for fun).
The problem Is that I cant find the way to get Title of a video from the Id. (example: ylLzyHk54Z0)
I have looked in the DATA and PLAYER api documentation and I cannot find it.
If someone knows how to do this or if someone could help me find the way to do this, please help me.
NOTE: I'm using javascript. It will be a web app.
EDIT: I have got an Idea. Maybe using a Regular expresion to parse out the title from the page title. I'm working on this.
Answer
Not entirely possible in javascript since you are trying to get a document from a different domain. If you are happy to throw in a bit of php try this. Tested ok:
<?
$vidID = $_POST['vidID'];
$url = "http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/". $vidID;
$doc = new DOMDocument;
$doc->load($url);
$title = $doc->getElementsByTagName("title")->item(0)->nodeValue;
?>
<html>
<head>
<title>Get Video Name</title>
</head>
<body>
<form action="test.php" method="post">
<input type="text" value="ID Here" name="vidID" />
<input type="submit" value="Get Name" />
</form>
<div id="page">URL: [<?= $url ?>]</div>
<div id="title">Title: [<?= $title ?>]</div>
</body>
</html>