Re: YouTube Education API

[Jarek Wilkiewicz]

+2012-lonhack-guests

On Sat, Jul 7, 2012 at 2:04 PM, Günther Noack <gno...@google.com> wrote:

Hi,

as discussed, here some info on how the education API works.

this is basically the same as on the slides that Jarek sent you,

           (1)

         ,----.

         |    |

        < >   |

      +----------+  (2)  +--------+  (3)  +---------+

      | Category |<>-----| Course |<>-----| Lecture |

      +----------+       +--------+       +---------+

          < >                                  |

           |                 (4)               |

           `-----------------------------------'

Only read operations are supported.

== Fetching EDU taxonomy ==

    $ curl -v -g 'http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/educategories.cat'

-> Regular XML (Atom) categories response, with parent category relationship.

== Lecture and course information ==

Courses by category:

    http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/edu/courses?category=CATID

    

    $ curl -v -g 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/edu/courses?category=3&v=2&prettyprint=true'

Lectures by category:

    http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/edu/lectures?category=CATID

Lectures by course:

    http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/edu/lectures?course=COURSEID

On the retrieved entries, you can find tags like this for lecturer and material information.  A course that has that information is "Structure and Interpretation of Computer Programs", which is popular in the computer science category.

    <media:credit scheme=”urn:youtube”

                  role=”lecturer”>Prof. Dr. Example</media:credit>

    <yt:material type="homework"

                 name="Exercise 1"

                 url="http://foo.edu/~example/ex1.pdf"

                 description="Your dog can't eat the PDF homework!"/>

--Günther