Retrieve Information from YouTube

To retrieve information from YouTube, create a new fetch task by following these steps. The connector runs fetch tasks automatically, based on the schedule that is configured in the configuration file.

To create a new fetch task

  1. Stop the connector.
  2. Open the configuration file in a text editor.
  3. In the [FetchTasks] section of the configuration file, specify the number of fetch tasks using the Number parameter. If you are configuring the first fetch task, type Number=1. If one or more fetch tasks have already been configured, increase the value of the Number parameter by one (1). Below the Number parameter, specify the names of the fetch tasks, starting from zero (0). For example:

    [FetchTasks]
    Number=1
    0=MyTask1
  4. Below the [FetchTasks] section, create a new TaskName section. The name of the section must match the name of the new fetch task. For example:

    [FetchTasks]
    Number=1
    0=MyTask1
    
    [MyTask1]
  5. In the new section, set the following configuration parameters:

    ProxyHost The host name or IP address of the proxy server to use to access YouTube.
    ProxyPort The port of the proxy server to use to access YouTube.
    LuaConfigureScript The name of the Lua script to use to retrieve information. Set this parameter to configure_youtube.lua.
    ApiKey The API key to use to access the YouTube API. You can obtain an API Key from https://code.google.com/apis/console/.
  6. Set one of the following parameters to choose how to retrieve information from YouTube:

    • To retrieve information about videos that match a query, set the parameter Query to the query to use to search YouTube.
    • To retrieve information about videos that belong to a specific channel, set the parameter ChannelID to the ID of the channel.
    • To retrieve information about videos that belong to a specific user, set the parameter Username to the user name of the user.
  7. (Optional) Set the following parameters to specify how much information to retrieve:

    MaxResults The maximum number of videos to retrieve information from.
    MaxComments The maximum number of comments to retrieve for each video. To ignore comments, set this parameter to 0 (zero).
  8. Save and close the configuration file.

    You can now start the connector.