diff --git a/settings_local.py.example b/settings_local.py.example
index 0ef051f..e5a7134 100644
--- a/settings_local.py.example
+++ b/settings_local.py.example
@@ -103,3 +103,6 @@ FLOWPLAYER_SWF = 'http://releases.flowplayer.org/swf/flowplayer-3.2.8.swf'
 
 # Enables google analytics
 GOOGLE_ANALYTICS_ID = None
+
+# Youtube API KEY https://console.developers.google.com/start
+YOUTUBE_API_KEY = ''
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diff --git a/traveler/models.py b/traveler/models.py
index b944b2a..c6c8a20 100644
--- a/traveler/models.py
+++ b/traveler/models.py
@@ -449,7 +449,7 @@ def process(self):
         conn.close()
 
         # it exists! (302 is a redirect for sharing links i.e. youtu.be)
-        if r1.status == 200 or r1.status == 302:
+        if r1.status == 200 or r1.status == 302 or r1.status == 301:
             self.content_provider = url_data.hostname.lstrip('www.')
             query = cgi.parse_qs(url_data.query)
 
@@ -463,16 +463,13 @@ def process(self):
                     self.content_provider = 'youtube.com'
                     self.url = 'http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=' + self.video_id
 
-                data_url = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/' + self.video_id + '?v=2&alt=json'
+                data_url = 'https://www.googleapis.com/youtube/v3/videos?id='+ self.video_id+'&key='+ settings.YOUTUBE_API_KEY +'&part=snippet'
                 youtube_data = simplejson.load(urllib.urlopen(data_url))
+                item = iter(youtube_data['items']).next()
 
-                thumbs = youtube_data['entry']['media$group']['media$thumbnail']
-                if len(thumbs) > 1:
-                    self.screenshot = thumbs[1]['url']
-                elif len(thumbs):
-                    self.screenshot = thumbs[0]['url']
+                self.screenshot = item['snippet']['thumbnails']['standard']['url']
+                self.caption = item['snippet']['title']
 
-                self.caption = youtube_data['entry']['title']['$t']
 
             # vimeo
             elif self.content_provider == 'vimeo.com':