Tubalr, YouTube without all the bullshit.

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Post by cjstewart88 » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 4:22 AM UTC

Tubalr, YouTube without all the bullshit.
tubalr.com

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Post by cjstewart88 » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 4:27 AM UTC

give it a shot

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Post by michaelpinto » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 4:33 AM UTC

Looking at this it's shocking to me how Google who became famous for their "less is more" approach to interface design have turned YouTube into a cluttered mess which reminds me of MySpace.

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Post by lappet » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 5:03 AM UTC

How does it find similar artists?

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Post by mdonahoe » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 5:05 AM UTC

michaelpinto wrote: post #3

Looking at this it's shocking to me how Google who became famous for their "less is more" approach to interface design have turned YouTube into a cluttered mess which reminds me of MySpace.

Youtube has always been kinda cluttered. I hear youtube is run mostly independently from the rest of google, so im not surprised that it is hasnt gotten the minimalist treatment

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Post by mcnemesis » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 6:12 AM UTC

interesting, was able to scroll Canibus's music as if it was a DVD menu! lovely. Using apis, scraping or pattern mining?

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Post by akanet » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 8:00 AM UTC

this is neat, can we get a tech overview of what's going on behind the scenes?

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Post by bartl » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 10:54 AM UTC

I don't like the wooden background. I think it's tacky, and it's precisely not the minimal approach you are promoting.

Otherwise: good work. The selection of music it gets me when selecting an artist is rather impressive. I can see me using this a lot.

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Post by cjstewart88 » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 11:59 AM UTC

lappet wrote: post #4

How does it find similar artists?

I take the top 20 similar artist from the last.fm API and then take the number one video for each artist and serve them up :)

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Post by cjstewart88 » Sun, Apr 10, 2011, 12:03 PM UTC

akanet wrote: post #7

this is neat, can we get a tech overview of what's going on behind the scenes?

Heres something quick and dirty:

A user input's a band or artist... or really anything they want to. You can insert Football, Funny, LOL Cats, or anything else you can think of. I'm aiming for people to use Tubalr for bands and artists, but it dosnt really matter, long as it has a use!

Then Tubalr posts to YouTube.com and retrieves a list of the top YouTube videos for whatever was searched excluding videos that dont allow embeding(I post to gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/… to determine if its embeddable, and throw it out if its not). Then Tubalr does some parsing and rips out the video ids and puts them away for the next step.

Once there is a list of all the videos, I then use YouTube's API to embed the YouTube player with the correct video. The YouTube API allows you to determine on the fly if a video is paused, finished, or any other state you can think of. Once a video is complete, it simply embeds the next video, using some jquery and a .php file with the player in it.

So what if a user hits the "Similar Artist/Bands"... well, Tubalr uses audioscrobbler.net's API by doing something like below!

Tubalr hits ws.audioscrobbler.com/2.0/artist/ARTIST_NAME_HERE/… and grabs the top 20 similar artists/bands and stores them for the next step.

Once Tubalr has the list of 20 similar bands/artists, it hits YouTube up for the number one video for each artists.

Then, after Tubalr has all the similar videos we just use the YouTube API to embed just like we did for the default option!