1 00:00:00,120 --> 00:00:04,860 Hello and welcome, everybody, and in the upcoming lessons, I'm going to take you through how to set 2 00:00:04,860 --> 00:00:09,420 up a YouTube API from scratch, connecting to a YouTube API. 3 00:00:09,420 --> 00:00:14,760 You can search for whatever term you want and it will return back results so you can set up and you 4 00:00:14,760 --> 00:00:16,620 can move through the different results. 5 00:00:16,650 --> 00:00:22,260 So we've got a previous we've got it next that all of the data and everything coming from the API. 6 00:00:22,270 --> 00:00:24,990 So this is a result coming back from the API. 7 00:00:24,990 --> 00:00:28,830 And as you can see, there's a ton of information available on YouTube. 8 00:00:29,010 --> 00:00:34,170 So we're going to show you how you can make use of that and restructure it and output it so that you 9 00:00:34,170 --> 00:00:37,780 can utilize it within your own code and within your own application. 10 00:00:38,040 --> 00:00:40,470 So we've got it coming in in a different format. 11 00:00:40,650 --> 00:00:47,850 And then we've taken that information and output it as a title, an image, an ID, a description. 12 00:00:47,940 --> 00:00:55,230 And using each one of these that's being returned back, we can link out to the video, see the description, 13 00:00:55,380 --> 00:00:57,630 as well as the title of the video. 14 00:00:57,870 --> 00:01:01,560 And all of this information is available just through that API. 15 00:01:01,560 --> 00:01:07,660 So we make a request using Fetch JavaScript fetch and we get the data and then we make use of the data. 16 00:01:07,680 --> 00:01:10,170 So this is also presented as JSON data. 17 00:01:10,410 --> 00:01:18,000 We bring it in as a JavaScript object and then we utilize it as its object format and output it into 18 00:01:18,030 --> 00:01:18,280 the. 19 00:01:18,300 --> 00:01:21,240 And as you can see, we do focus on JavaScript. 20 00:01:21,330 --> 00:01:23,910 So HTML and access is going to be a minimal. 21 00:01:24,030 --> 00:01:30,060 And you can also take this code, you can apply your own success in your own HTML and I'm sure make 22 00:01:30,060 --> 00:01:31,530 it look a whole lot better. 23 00:01:31,800 --> 00:01:34,110 Source code is also included. 24 00:01:34,290 --> 00:01:40,560 So you take the code, try that within your own editor and your own browser and get familiar with what 25 00:01:40,560 --> 00:01:42,120 it is and what it's doing. 26 00:01:42,120 --> 00:01:47,820 And I do suggest that as you work through the lessons that you do, try the code out as it is the best 27 00:01:47,820 --> 00:01:52,710 way to learn if you have any questions or comments or need clarity on anything that's being covered 28 00:01:52,860 --> 00:01:58,410 within the course and the course lessons you can please ask me within the Q&A section. 29 00:01:58,530 --> 00:02:03,000 I'm always happy to help or if you have any suggestions to improve the course, make it even better. 30 00:02:03,180 --> 00:02:07,620 I'm always happy to listen to that as well, so I know you're excited to get started. 31 00:02:07,770 --> 00:02:08,970 So let's set this up. 32 00:02:09,120 --> 00:02:14,790 And also one other prerequisite before we begin is that you do have a Google account so that you can 33 00:02:14,790 --> 00:02:20,910 connect and get your own epik in order to connect to the Google API, dive right in and start coding 34 00:02:20,910 --> 00:02:22,050 some JavaScript.