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Ingrid Elise Rekaa
Ingrid Elise Rekaa
2,268 Points
Posted by Ingrid Elise Rekaa
Ingrid Elise Rekaa
2,268 Points

How to use YouTube API in Swift?

This is unrelated to any course. I am trying to make an app using Swift and want to use a youtube api. I found this page, but it assumes that I am using Cocoa: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/guides/ios_youtube_helper

Is there a YouTube api for Swift? Or do I have to combine Swift and Cocoa to make this work?

X. Szuh
X. Szuh
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X. Szuh
X. Szuh
2,486 Points

There isn't a specific APi for any programming language. YouTube will return its query results using JSON. That will contain the data and links to what you want to display. So you will fetch the JSON using NSURLSession and use NSJSONSerialization to parse it. You might also look into using Swifty JSON. It's easier to use. See Github.

Ingrid Elise Rekaa
Ingrid Elise Rekaa
2,268 Points
Ingrid Elise Rekaa
Ingrid Elise Rekaa
2,268 Points

Thanks for the really quick reply!