New version 3.0 of Youtube API: Stakes and Opportunities for Developers

Since December 14, 2012, Google team developers teach us that in December 2012, the YouTube Data API has become one of Google’s most popular APIs by request volume.

In fact during the past 5 years the YouTube API has known a good growth with the developers. Since December 14, 2012 version 3.0, is available in the goal to help you make better integrated video experiences. ..

Therefore the new release aims to be more or less easy to use and include: rich client library support; improved tooling, reference documentation and integration with Google’s common API infrastructure; using JSON rather than XML; Freebase integration via topics, and universal search. In addition, we have channel bulletin post and full subscriber list management.

For more about the YouTube API version 3.0, in addition to the API documentation, go to this playlist (a place to start.). NB: Version 3.0 is still experimental.