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It would be more useful if Google / Youtube's API allowed 'reserving a slot' which would create a video ID endpoint but not finalize the content. Accounts migh
by mjevans 7y ago
It would be more useful if Google / Youtube's API allowed 'reserving a slot' which would create a video ID endpoint but not finalize the content. Accounts might have a per-account limit of some small number of floating slots which would also timeout after a day or two.
This wouldn't violate the write-once model since the submission wouldn't be completed, it'd just defer finalizing and publishing it for a little.
- MichaelApproved 7y agoMore useful for what application? Other than a novelty, why would anyone need a reserved spot?
- josinalvo 7y agoTo provide a link to next week's video/ the next of a series inside the previous?
- cameronbrown 7y agoURL shorteners do this trick, can just update the redirect. Most people just put videos in a playlist so it comes recommended next though.
- judge2020 7y agoAnd end cards were made for exactly this purpose - you can't put them in the description but at the end you can link to latest video in a playlist.
- anticensor 7y agoVideo descriptions can be edited.
- amerine 7y agoSome workflows around video production might find it useful to have the actual YouTube URL early in the process.