By Stephanie
Liu, YouTube APIs and Tools Team
There's been a
small flurry of announcements lately about things the YouTube APIs team has done to make life
easier for our developers, and we wanted to make sure you heard about them!
Backwards compatibility
guidelinesSince we just launched
V2 of
the API, we also published some guidelines and best practices to help ensure that
breaking changes aren't introduced into your app with new versions. Read more in our
"Mandate For
Change" post.
Test your apps against new buildsA week
before new builds are pushed to production, they'll go up on
stage.gdata.youtube.com. Subscribe to our
announcement forum to get
notified about new builds, and do regression testing by pointing your app at
stage.gdata.youtube.com. Read more in our
"All the World's a
Stage" post.
Interactive query generatorWe released
a helpful
tool to play with
API requests in the browser so you can get a feel for the mechanics. Because we show you the
raw request and responses, it's also an easy way to do some quick testing and debugging. Read
the full announcement in our
"Try Before You
Buy" post.
YouTube App GalleryTo help get you get
some exposure and to help new developers get some inspiration, we launched the
gallery. Browse, comment, and rate
projects as well as
submit your
own. Read the full announcement
here.
We hope this helps both new and old YouTube developers alike. Let us know how
it's going in the
discussion
forum.
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There's been a
small flurry of announcements lately about things the YouTube APIs team has done to make life
easier for our developers, and we wanted to make sure you heard about them!