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  1. POVideo Tags No Longer Available Via YouTube API?
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    <p>About a month ago YouTube decided to get rid of it's "tags" from the frontend of their website: <a href="http://youtubecreator.blogspot.com/2012/08/tags-removed-from-video-watch-pages.html" rel="nofollow">http://youtubecreator.blogspot.com/2012/08/tags-removed-from-video-watch-pages.html</a></p> <p>Which also in turn left <strong>media:keywords</strong> blank through any API feed request as read here: <a href="http://apiblog.youtube.com/2012/08/video-tags-just-for-uploaders.html" rel="nofollow">http://apiblog.youtube.com/2012/08/video-tags-just-for-uploaders.html</a></p> <p>The nice thing was for another month or so (until a few days ago) you could still access a video's "tags" or "keywords" through the API by looping through the <strong>category term</strong>(s)</p> <p>It seems YouTube has taken that away also and it now only displays ONE category term for each API feed...and most of the time they are the basic YouTube categories like "Music" or "People" etc.</p> <p>My questions to the YouTube development team is why was this taken away from the API (I understand taking it away from the frontend of the website) and will it ever return in any form to the API?</p> <hr> <p>In the original Creators blog post you guys stated:</p> <p>"<em>Tags remain an important way to organize and help others find your videos. We strongly encourage you to continue tagging videos -- this will help increase your audience by improving the discoverability of your content.</em>"</p> <p>So if Tags are still important and still utilized for search results...why in the world are they not available through the API anymore?</p> <hr> <p>Any help and/or info would be greatly appreciated as this has completely destroyed the functionality of MANY of my sites! Thank you.</p>
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