retrive only mobile-supported video from YouTube API

Question

I'm using the YouTube API to retrieve videos for and Android client.

The program works well but sometimes I get an error like "this video is not allowed to run on smartphones".

So, there is a way to filter that videos? I read this doc but did not find a solution.

Answer 1

There are two concepts embeddable and syndicated. iOS devices use iframe so they basically embed. Android devices that use player API can check syndicated.

When you do a search->list, you can set videoEmbeddable and videoSyndicated to true.

For Android, you should check videoSyndicated.

Or if you are iterating through videos, for each video, you can do a video->list call with video id and check status.embeddable in the response.

Here is a blog post about this topic, even though examples are in v2, information is still relevant.