Battlerobo.com » Google Video http://www.battlerobo.com Musings of a Chicago Web Developer Sun, 08 Jan 2012 05:22:51 +0000 en-US hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.4-alpha-19719 feel great. http://www.battlerobo.com/2007/02/test/ http://www.battlerobo.com/2007/02/test/#comments Thu, 22 Feb 2007 19:32:44 +0000 Jay http://www.battlerobo.com/?p=185

Really old Internet video. It’s still awesome though.

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I also wanted it to handle Google video as well, but they haven’t implemented an API yet. So, I had to do some slight hacking and managed this:

If it’s working like it’s supposed to, you should be seeing a thumbnail of the video that you can click and view the Google Video. The thing about this is, I can’t look up video data based on its unique ID. I had to work around that and do a search on the video title and format and parse it to and from XML. Basically, this is done by appending ‘&output=rss’ to the search results URL. So, ta dah! Google Video is now supported here… well, just barely.

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