Finding out the destination YouTube URL when uploading videos to YouTube via youtube_it gem with Rails

I've gotten the 'youtube_it' working great in conjunction with Paperclip to handle video uploads through the browser using the following code:

videos_controller.rb

  def create
    @video = Video.new(params[:video])
    if @video.save
      uploader = YouTubeIt::Upload::VideoUpload.new( :username => AppConfig[:youtube_user], 
                                                     :password =>  AppConfig[:youtube_pass], 
                                                     :dev_key => AppConfig[:youtube_api_key])
      uploader.upload open( params[:video][:attachment] ), :title => @video.title,
                                                           :description => @video.description,
                                                           :category => 'some category',
                                                           :keywords => ['some keyword 1', "some keyword 2"]
      @video.deliver_video_notification
      flash[:notice] = 'Your video is under review for approval.<br/> Please check back in 48 hours.'
      redirect_to videos_url
    else
      @errors = @video.errors
      @current_video = params[:v].blank? ? Video.newest : Video.find(params[:v])
      render :action => :index
    end
  end开发者_运维知识库

However once the video is uploaded, I have no idea what URL YouTube created for the video without manually logging into the YouTube channel and looking it up. I didn't see any callback in the logs or the response.body that revealed the destination. I'd like to programatically save the destination in some kind of after_save method. As it works right now, it is saving the video object, and after save it is uploading the video to youtube.

The upload method returns a YouTubeIt::Model::Video, which has a player_url attribute. So just catch the return value from the upload method, and call player_url on that, and voilà, you have the URL to the video. For a list of the other attributes that model has, check the source code.

Example:

def create
  @video = Video.new(params[:video])
  if @video.save
    uploader = YouTubeIt::Upload::VideoUpload.new( :username => AppConfig[:youtube_user], 
                                                   :password =>  AppConfig[:youtube_pass], 
                                                   :dev_key => AppConfig[:youtube_api_key])
    uploaded_video = uploader.upload open( params[:video][:attachment] ), :title => @video.title,
                                                         :description => @video.description,
                                                         :category => 'some category',
                                                         :keywords => ['some keyword 1', "some keyword 2"]

    puts uploaded_video.player_url # This will print the URL to the log

    @video.deliver_video_notification
    flash[:notice] = 'Your video is under review for approval.<br/> Please check back in 48 hours.'
    redirect_to videos_url
  else
    @errors = @video.errors
    @current_video = params[:v].blank? ? Video.newest : Video.find(params[:v])
    render :action => :index
  end
end

How about getting the list of videos uploaded by the user and choosing the latest one?

$ client.my_videos

https://github.com/kylejginavan/youtube_it