[ale] An API Problem

[James Sumners]

Maybe a hint as to what this mysterious API is supposed to would help?

On 10/22/07, Terry Bailey <terry at bitlinx.com> wrote:
>
>  Hi,
>
>  I have hesitated about sending this question because I thought it might not
> be acceptable, but since it looks like the OS at YouTube is Linux, I have
> decided to send it. I sent the question to a forum at YouTube, but I think I
> might get a better answer here.
>
>  I have one email account and have set up several authors
> (auth1,auth2,auth3, etc) with auth1 being the first one set up and they all
> have been set up using this email account.  Note: These author names are
> dummy names. But there is an API problem.
>
>  The following works:
>
>  http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos?author=auth1
>
>
>  The following do not work:
>
>
>  http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos?author=auth2
>
>
>  http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos?author=auth3
>
>
>  I am wondering if the API requires a one-to-one correspondence between
> authors and email addresses?
>
>  Does anyone know of a workaround?
>
>  Thinks,
>
>  Terry Bailey
>
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