Can I play / stop YouTube videos using external software?

Question

Can I play / stop YouTube videos (inside a web browser like FireFox) using external software (C #)?

Answer 1

I would suggest that this is prohibited in the YouTube Terms of Service, but I'm not sure. In any case, if this is a more interesting project or proof of concept, here are some thoughts:

• I doubt there are any existing libraries, etc. that can do this b / c TOS points.
• Perhaps you could build this yourself:
  • Load the page into the form element of the WebBrowser form.
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Answer 2

, JavaScript, #. API YouTube.

http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/overview.html