Youtube Data API: Retrieving multiple Video entries by IDs in a single request

Question

I am wondering if there is a way to query YouTube for multiple random videos (video id\'s are known) in a single query? I am storing video id\'s in the local db and need to show

Answer 1

I too had exactly the same problem, I needed a list of video objects related to an arbitrary list of video id's, i.e. not conforming to any of the feeds.

The batch processing option is very tempting, but the implementation seems quite heavy for what should be pretty simple functionality.

At the end of the day, doing a basic video search for the id's separated by pipe "|" achieves the required result:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?q=h5jKcDH9s64|elzqvWXG1Y

Hope this helps