Youtube – How to watch the own videos

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Google moved My Videos section to YouTube Studio, I can't actually figure out a way to make a video I've uploaded play, let alone find a link to it. I see all sorts of options to change the thumbnail, description etc., but not the most important one.

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In the YouTube Studio, if you hover above an entry, it shows a quicklink to the watch page (the YouTube icon), as well as a ... next to it, which allows you to get shortlinks to share on social media.

The Studio is still in beta, so send feedback if you want a link to your video somewhere else, too – it's more likely that they'll make changes to the system now.

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Youtube – How to get a video-entry’s RSS “description” via the API

import gdata.youtube
import gdata.alt.appengine
import gdata.youtube.service

class Index(webapp.RequestHandler):
    def get(self):
        client = gdata.youtube.service.YouTubeService()
        feed = client.GetRecentlyFeaturedVideoFeed()
        gdata.alt.appengine.run_on_appengine(client)

        self.response.out.write('<html><body>')
        for entry in feed.entry:
            self.response.out.write('<div>%s</div>' %entry.media.description)
        self.response.out.write('</html></body>')

If you are using a rendering template like Django, instead of self response call the rendering function of the template and pass the variable feed, in your html file call Django variables like this:

replace the self.response with:

templates.render(self, 'home.html',
                    feed=feed,
                 )

and add to your html:

{% for entry in feed.entry %}
    <div>{{entry.media.description}}</div>
{% endfor %}

YouTube – Deeplinking in Video Descriptions

So this is what worked for me, after signin:

Load the video, put a place holder description in.
Click your username in the top right corner, then click "Video Manager" is the list below.
Find the video you'd like to add deeplinks to within the video's description.
Under that video, click "Edit Info"
Use the format "Text 00:00" - which is the same as the comments format and only support minutes and seconds, not hours, half-seconds, etc.

Note: It possible this works when loading the video, but already had the video loaded, and on other forums it said that didn't work anyway, so I didn't even bother to test it.

If it matters, the real format I used was "Text (00:00)" - which to me was easy to read and understand, especially after the time becomes hyperlinked and blue.

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YouTube – Deeplinking in Video Descriptions

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