"Sorry, there was a Youtube error"

[Peabody]

When I go to www.eevblog.com to view the latest video, I get a black Youtube window, below which it says "Sorry, there was a Youtube error."  If I click on the Play triangle anyway it says "An error occurred, please try again later."  It's been that way for a few days now.  If I go to the EEVBlog on Youtube directly, it all works fine - all five of the current series are there.  So it looks like something is wrong with the website.

[gir]

Probably whatever wordpress plugin Dave uses stopped working. I think he complained about Youtube suspending his API keys, somewhere? @eevblog: In case you want to write your own and not rely on any APIs: the youtube-provided rss-feed returns your last 15 videos. I haven't written PHP in ages, but extracting the video id from that is fairly easy:

Code: [Select]

<?php
$xml = file_get_contents("https://www.youtube.com/feeds/videos.xml?channel_id=UC2DjFE7Xf11URZqWBigcVOQ");
$xmldata = simplexml_load_string($xml);
$id = $xmldata->entry[0]->children("https://www.youtube.com/xml/schemas/2015")->videoId;
echo '<iframe src="https://www.youtube.com/embed/'.$id.'"></iframe>'; 
caching is left as an exercise for the reader

[Doctorandus_P]

I'm still seeing this on 2020-05-28 and I think this may need a bump.

[Gixy]

Hi,
Same here for several weeks and already signaled on another thread with no answer. Sometimes things come back normal but not for a long time.