How are these youtube pages doing this?

Discussion in 'HTML & Website Design' started by toykilla, Aug 14, 2006.

  1. #1
    I have run across alot of sites that are generating lists of youtube videos and apparently loading the videos into iframes. I could use something like this on my site.

    I really like this site:
    http://ummyeah.com/

    but could settle for this type of iframe site:
    http://www.1500videos.com/


    (I am not looking for ads, just how the videos are being pulled and listed)
     
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  2. mike323

    mike323 Well-Known Member

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    Those are pretty cool. I'd like to know how it's done too. Looks fairly easy, though.
     
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  3. Stillersnation

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    Just sign up for a free username/password.

    Find the video you want - and you should see the options on the page.

    For the page on my blog: http://stillers-nation.blogspot.com/2006/08/still-one-of-our-favorites-its.html

    I just clicked on "Blog This Video" link from the original page:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3aujaEafmDo

    But there are also EMBED tags if you want to cut and past code into your html page.

    By using the BLOG THIS VIDEO link, all of the work (i.e. page creation) is automatically done since Blogger is integrated with YouTube. I just reformatted the text size color and that was about all I need to do.
     
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  4. toykilla

    toykilla Peon

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    No. I understand how to embed videos. However on my site i would like a list of maybe "My favorite videos" where users can click them and it shows that video. I dont want to have to manually cut and past all of the embed tags.
     
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  6. toykilla

    toykilla Peon

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    They are all hosted on youtube.com. I am trying to figure out how these people are putting the pages together to automatically pull the content from youtube..
     
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  7. toykilla

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    I figure out a manual way to do it:

    http://www.350z-tech.com/zwiki/350z_Encyclopedia:Sandbox

    Using this method you can use an iframe and just post links to the video source. This should work with youtube and google video.

    
    <iframe id="videos" name="videos"  src='#' scrolling="auto" width="400" height="326" frameborder="0" marginheight="0" marginwidth="0"></iframe>
    
    <a target='videos' href='http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=6461206364702334507&hl=en'>BMI: GT-R - The Prodigy - part 1</a><br>
    <a target='videos' href='http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-3841655904351326109&hl=en'>BMI: GT-R - The Prodigy - part 2</a>
    
    Code (markup):
    Now, it would be great to figure out how to do it automatically from your youtube favorites.
     
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  8. Connections

    Connections Well-Known Member

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    the content is not autimatically comming from youtube they have done it by hand very fast,my guess is that have some how just coppied it all from say a search engine and then just coppied the codes from that. thats the quickest way I can think off..
     
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  9. slickricky

    slickricky Active Member

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    Most likely its done through an RSS feed, and a cronjob. I do this with videos, on google. You can perform a search of the site and have the search output as an rss feed, and then use that rss feed to display video.

    So when I search google, I simply search for the name of my website, because I put that into the descriptions of all the videos, and other people aren't likely to use my website name in their videos, so the search returns only the videos I've "tagged" with my name.

    So maybe they're doing something along the same line.
     
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    Is www.350z-tech.com your site? Just curious.
     
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