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YouTube released an updated version of its API. The new features are:

• Upload videos and video responses to YouTube: Allows third party websites/applications to upload videos to YouTube and community features like rating videos, post comments and post video responses.
• Add/Edit user and video metadata
• Fetch localized standard feeds
• Customize player UI and control video playback: Lets users to customize the player by adding parameters specified by the API at the end of the URL, including the options for autoplay, looping, and keyboard control.

A JavaScript and ActionScript API were also introduced. They enabled developers to control the YouTube video and get information of the video, such as the video’s size, length, volume.