Comments on: Trying to Crack YouTube Videos http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/22/crackyoutube/ Doug Kaye's Weblog Thu, 19 Jan 2012 17:38:13 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Brian http://www.blogarithms.com/index.php/archives/2009/06/22/crackyoutube/comment-page-1/#comment-87618 Brian Tue, 23 Jun 2009 22:18:46 +0000 http://www.blogarithms.com/?p=1115#comment-87618 Are you looking to grab the h.264 version for the enclosure or derive the embed src? If the latter, you can derive the embed code directly from the url. For instance: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9kHxlvSVRY The embed is: To build the embed, the url is modified as follows: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9kHxlvSVRY http://www.youtube.com/v/N9kHxlvSVRY&fs=1& [fs=1 is for full screen] That new value is used in both the object value and embed src. If you are doing the former, it is a bit trickier, as they have been locking that down a bit more. If you are just adding the embed to RSS, you should consider using mRSS with . Are you looking to grab the h.264 version for the enclosure or derive the embed src?

If the latter, you can derive the embed code directly from the url. For instance:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9kHxlvSVRY

The embed is:

To build the embed, the url is modified as follows:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N9kHxlvSVRY
http://www.youtube.com/v/N9kHxlvSVRY&fs=1&
[fs=1 is for full screen]
That new value is used in both the object value and embed src.

If you are doing the former, it is a bit trickier, as they have been locking that down a bit more.

If you are just adding the embed to RSS, you should consider using mRSS with .

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