Using the YouTube APIs, can I “hack” my own account?
Question by pinacoladaxb: Using the YouTube APIs, can I “hack” my own account?
I don’t want to do anything malicious here. I’m re-uploading some of my old YouTube videos in higher quality, and I do not want to lose certain stats from the old videos.
I was wondering if it would be possible to transfer ratings, views, and/or comments from the old videos to the new videos, using either the Zend Gdata library or a modded version of it. Is that possible?
Zend Gdata documentation: http://framework.zend.com/manual/en/zend.gdata.html
PHP Developer’s Guide: http://code.google.com/apis/youtube/2.0/developers_guide_php.html
It seems to me that Google is opening itself up here for people to potentially screw around with its databases…
Best answer:
Answer by Stephen M
No it isn’t possible I am afraid. I worked with Youtube on a national advertising channel and when the client uploaded new videos they couldn’t transfer any hits, ratings or comments over from previous videos uploaded. And this client spent a good bit of money on their channel 
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