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Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

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Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

#33

Post by ximeng »

Endless youtube is another nice youtube hack. Just put endless before the youtube part of the URL, e.g.

http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg

becomes

http://endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg

It repeats the video, or a portion of it, and has a neat inline search facility.

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

#35

Post by feross »

andrewparker wrote: post #30
Entlin wrote: post #17

Wow, what a brilliant concept. Needs a keyboard shortcut for "give me another one with the same query", though. Then it would be both media bliss and a wonderful way to chill out.

By viewing the source code you can see that the author intends to add a "More Videos" features, but it's currently commented out. http://feross.net/instant/instant.js I'd personally recommend not finishing this "More Videos" feature. I think the simplicity of just 1 video per search is awesome and creates beautiful serendipity. But, I know such a suggestion is very subjective.

Hi there Andrew, I'm the author. After reading the comments on HN and elsewhere, I'm surprised to see my hack being praised for it's simplicity. If I had more time last night, I would have implemented more features - I have a ton of ideas.

I guess it's good that I didn't. It looks like simplicity won.

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

#36

Post by Pyrodogg »

ximeng wrote: post #33

Endless youtube is another nice youtube hack. Just put endless before the youtube part of the URL, e.g. http://youtube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg becomes http://endlessyoutube.com/watch?v=7Nw5j6aI8sg It repeats the video, or a portion of it, and has a neat inline search facility.

Same strategy with http://youtuberepeat.com but you just get the repeating video, not all of the other stuff around the edges.

Re: Heard of Google Instant? Well, I built YouTube Instant.

#37

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feross wrote: post #35
andrewparker wrote: post #30

Earlier quoted context omitted.

By viewing the source code you can see that the author intends to add a "More Videos" features, but it's currently commented out. http://feross.net/instant/instant.js I'd personally recommend not finishing this "More Videos" feature. I think the simplicity of just 1 video per search is awesome and creates beautiful serendipity. But, I know such a suggestion is very subjective.

Hi there Andrew, I'm the author. After reading the comments on HN and elsewhere, I'm surprised to see my hack being praised for it's simplicity. If I had more time last night, I would have implemented more features - I have a ton of ideas. I guess it's good that I didn't. It looks like simplicity won.

Speed it up by not going through your server to get the query suggestions. You can drop the jsonp parameter and just eval the results. Or change the jsonp parameter and include it as a script tag.
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