gdata

= GData

• http://code.google.com/p/gdata

== DESCRIPTION:

Ruby wrapper for working with Google Data APIs

== SYNOPSIS:

yt = GData::Client::YouTube.new yt.source = 'my_cool_application' yt.clientlogin('username', 'password') yt.client_id = 'CLIENT_ID' yt.developer_key = 'DEVELOPER_KEY' feed = yt.get('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/uploads').to_xml

creating, updating, and deleting a playlist

entry = <<-EOF Ruby Utility Unit Test

This is a test playlist.

EOF

response = yt.post('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/playlists', entry).to_xml

edit_uri = response.elements["link[@rel='edit']"].attributes['href']

response.elements["summary"].text = "Updated description"

response = yt.put(edit_uri, response.to_s).to_xml

yt.delete(edit_uri).to_xml

uploading a video

test_movie = '/path/to/a/movie.mov' mime_type = 'video/quicktime' feed = 'http://uploads.gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/default/uploads'

entry = <<EOF media:group <media:title type="plain">Test Movie</media:title> <media:description type="plain"> This is a test with the Ruby library </media:description> <media:category scheme="http://gdata.youtube.com/schemas/2007/categories.cat">People </media:category> media:keywordstest,lame</media:keywords> </media:group> EOF

response = @yt.post_file(feed, test_movie, mime_type, entry).to_xml

== REQUIREMENTS:

• A sunny disposition

Tested against Ruby 1.8.6 patch level 114

== INSTALL:

sudo gem install gdata

To generate documentation:

rake doc

To run unit tests:

cp test/test_config.yml.example test/test_config.yml

edit test/test_config.yml

rake test

== LICENSE:

Copyright (C) 2008 Google Inc.

Licensed under the Apache License, Version 2.0 (the "License"); you may not use this file except in compliance with the License. You may obtain a copy of the License at

  http://www.apache.org/licenses/LICENSE-2.0

Unless required by applicable law or agreed to in writing, software distributed under the License is distributed on an "AS IS" BASIS, WITHOUT WARRANTIES OR CONDITIONS OF ANY KIND, either express or implied. See the License for the specific language governing permissions and limitations under the License.