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011 Parsing and placing a YouTube video feed on your site

011 Parsing and placing a YouTube video feed on your site

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011 Parsing and placing a YouTube video feed on your site

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Hello! This Ray Villalobos and welcome to View Source! In this episode we're going to use PHP to load a feed of content from a YouTube channel. So if you want to know how to take content from one web site to another, then it's time to View Source. We want to use Google's APIs or Application Programming Interface to take content from our YouTube channel and post it on a different web site. In our case, we want to take the feed of latest videos from this lyndapodcast channel and place it into our own web site. We're going to be working with PHP, a server-side technology that processes files before they are sent to the site visitor. So instead of working with local files on this project, I'm going to be working on a live server. In order to access the files on the server, I'm going to use an FTP application, in this case Cyberduck. To get this to work, we need to make sure our servers are geared up for two things. First, the particular function that we're going to use to accomplish this…

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