Solution 1 :
I tried fetching it with curl. Your URL uses http instead of https://..., change it to https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=.
Trying to fetch the URL when it starts with just http resulted in a 403 status for me. But https was successful.
URL url = new URL("http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=" + youtubeUrl + "&format=json");
Should be changed to:
URL url = new URL("https://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=" + youtubeUrl + "&format=json");
Solution 2 :
The server does not agree to fulfil the request (error code 403). This is probably due to the protocol. Try using HttpsURLConnection instead of HttpURLConnection.
Problem :
public static class GetTitleTask extends AsyncTask<String, Void, String> {
protected String doInBackground(String... urls) {
try {
String youtubeUrl = urls[0];
if (youtubeUrl != null) {
URL url = new URL("http://www.youtube.com/oembed?url=" + youtubeUrl + "&format=json");
HttpURLConnection connection = null;
BufferedReader reader = null;
try {
connection = (HttpURLConnection) url.openConnection();
connection.addRequestProperty("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows NT 6.1; WOW64; rv:221.0) Gecko/20100101 Firefox/31.0");
connection.connect();
if (connection.getResponseCode() != HttpURLConnection.HTTP_OK) {
Log.d(TAG, "HTTP response code is " + connection.getResponseCode());
return null;
}
InputStream stream = connection.getInputStream();
reader = new BufferedReader(new InputStreamReader(stream));
StringBuffer buffer = new StringBuffer();
String line = "";
while ((line = reader.readLine()) != null) {
buffer.append(line+"n");
Log.d("Response: ", "> " + line);
}
return buffer.toString();
} catch (MalformedURLException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
} finally {
if (connection != null) {
connection.disconnect();
}
try {
if (reader != null) {
reader.close();
}
} catch (IOException e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
}
return null;
}
} catch (Exception e) {
e.printStackTrace();
}
return null;
}
protected void onPostExecute(String title) {
Log.v(TAG, "onPostExecute: " + title);
super.onPostExecute(title);
// ...
}
}
Input for example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hT_nvWreIhg
This always returns null. The HTTP response code is 403. That is why I tried adding a user agent, but it didn’t help.
Is there any way to fix this? I would like to get the video title without using the YouTube API.
