Accessing YouTube data programmatically using Scala

Few days back, I wanted to save the list of vidoes in few youtube playlists for future references. But on a quick google search, I was not able to find any simple examples of accessing youtube data apis using scala (or even in Java).

Here is a quick notes on how I used Google Java data apis to access youtube data in scala.

Setup 0 - build.sbt

First, let's start by creating a simple `build....

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Play Framework: How to Host multiple sites using same Play instance (aka virtualhosts)

Lately I have coded few small services/sites using play framework and I found the need to co-host these multiple sites on a single physcial server.

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Play: How to read a config parameter from application.conf file (post 2.5.x)

Post 2.5.x release, older approach of having Global objects to access configuration parameters available in application.conf is no longer recommended. Instead, it is advised now to use dependency injection to access these.

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