{"id":342,"date":"2012-07-22T23:23:19","date_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:23:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/garysieling.com\/blog\/?p=342"},"modified":"2012-07-22T23:23:19","modified_gmt":"2012-07-22T23:23:19","slug":"reading-the-youtube-api-from-phantomjs","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.garysieling.com\/blog\/reading-the-youtube-api-from-phantomjs\/","title":{"rendered":"Reading the Youtube API from PhantomJS"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The following code will retrieve the duration of a video from the Youtube API. 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