YouTube RSS

[trigatch4]

So they say if you want the RSS for the tag "monkey" the url is feed://www.youtube.com/rss/tag/monkey.rss

But what if the tag you want is two words long? I couldn't figure it out...

 

[krazyjosh5]

is there a + in between them maybe? or a -?

 

[chatmasta]

It's definitely going to be _ or - or + or %20

Although when you enter tags, you separate them by spaces, and I don't know if they even support multiple word tags. The way their search algorithm is set up may make it unnecessary.

 

[infoTim]

YouTube :: Tag // sweaty monkey balls

looks like the "+" sign works.

 

[trigatch4]

ahhhhAAAHH

you da man

 

[Enigmabomb]

Someone deserves + rep for figuring out there is a dynamic way to search YouTube and have it return in RSS. This seriously helped a project of mine. PLUS, people love to put good descriptions about there videos. Love it.

Josh

 

[trigatch4]

only complaint is that straight from their stream, it spits out a lot of links back to youtube that are embedded. it'd be nice to have a custom scraper that just output the video and description....

 

[Enigmabomb]

I suppose you could couple an FLV ripper and a rss scraper for a powerful combo..

 

[Cellphone]

scrape youtube content and index it in google get tons of traffic

 

[Enigmabomb]

cellphone: =)

 

[hoodmonkey]

The YouTube API is a bit limited right now, but soon you can upload video via the API.

By the way, I wrote a PHP script package a while back to serve as a simple front-end to YouTube. It has search, browse by tag - user - date, you name it. I hosted it on a simple $8 a month VPS and had just over 11,000 pages indexed in Google within a month (or 2 months, I don't remember the time frame, but it was quick).

The domain I was using expired, but I still have the scripts if anyone wants them - for free. You can still see the remains by googling [site:loserpimp.com]. That particular site is dead now, but for the very lack of SEO I put into it, I think it did alright.

Anyway here's a zip file with the scripts. There's a admin user interface (username and password are both "admin" sans quotes). Just change the YouTube DevID with your own or use mine to test stuff out.

If anyone needs it edited for anything, let me know.

www.hoodmonkey.com/youtubeapi.zip