Been playing with the google java API’s for youtube as a part of the Sheffield virtual classroom project. I was shocked to find there weren’t any maven artifacts for the jars. Here’s the commands to take the distributed jars and cram them into your local maven2 repo. (Updated for latest versions as at 22/08/2009).

Download the zip package from googlecode at http://code.google.com/p/gdata-java-client/downloads/list

then cd to the lib directory and run

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=base -Dversion=1.0 -Dfile=gdata-base-1.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=blogger -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-blogger-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=blogger-meta -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-blogger-meta-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=books -Dversion=1.0 -Dfile=gdata-books-1.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=books-meta -Dversion=1.0 -Dfile=gdata-books-meta-1.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=calendar -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-calendar-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=calendar-meta -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-calendar-meta-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=client -Dversion=1.0 -Dfile=gdata-client-1.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=client-meta -Dversion=1.0 -Dfile=gdata-client-meta-1.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=codesearch -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-codesearch-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=codesearch-meta -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-codesearch-meta-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=contacts -Dversion=3.0 -Dfile=gdata-contacts-3.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=contacts-meta -Dversion=3.0 -Dfile=gdata-contacts-meta-3.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=core -Dversion=1.0 -Dfile=gdata-core-1.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=docs -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-docs-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=docs-meta -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-docs-meta-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=finance -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-finance-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=finance-meta -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-finance-meta-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=health -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-health-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=health-meta -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-health-meta-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=media -Dversion=1.0 -Dfile=gdata-media-1.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=photos -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-photos-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=photos-meta -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-photos-meta-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=spreadsheet -Dversion=3.0 -Dfile=gdata-spreadsheet-3.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=spreadsheet-meta -Dversion=3.0 -Dfile=gdata-spreadsheet-meta-3.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=youtube -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-youtube-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true
mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=youtube-meta -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-youtube-meta-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true

Edit - With the latest downloads you will also need to download the collections extensions at http://code.google.com/p/google-collections/ and install using

mvn install:install-file -DgroupId=gdata -DartifactId=youtube-meta -Dversion=2.0 -Dfile=gdata-youtube-meta-2.0.jar  -Dpackaging=jar -DgeneratePom=true