Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets • Hacker News Board

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by jalada » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 2:22 PM UTC

brotchie wrote: post #9

Wow, surreal. Vine = immediately broadcast 6 second .gifs? My brain doesn't really want to accept that these snippets are live.

Someone might wait a while before submitting I guess. These are just picked up as soon as they are shared on Twitter.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by brador » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 2:24 PM UTC

A little help please! so I have a vine link, say http://vine.co/v/b53lmWrxtQr.

How do I get the .mp4 link to the vine video itself? is there a vine api or do I hard scrape?

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by citricsquid » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 2:27 PM UTC

brador wrote: post #12

A little help please! so I have a vine link, say http://vine.co/v/b53lmWrxtQr . How do I get the .mp4 link to the vine video itself? is there a vine api or do I hard scrape?

https://vines.s3.amazonaws.com/ videos/FED404A9-A4BE-4575-A73B-8542E146FA71-52962-0000207E5EF700D9_1.0.3.mp4? versionId=E5rpcmqj9ySK91RTSGuF3rjYuSPBOgzG>

I think maybe the Twitter api (what vinepeek is using) may return it, because it's part of a twitter card thing?

edit: no it doesn't, you'd need to scrape.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by [deleted] » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 2:27 PM UTC

brador wrote: post #12

A little help please! so I have a vine link, say http://vine.co/v/b53lmWrxtQr . How do I get the .mp4 link to the vine video itself? is there a vine api or do I hard scrape?

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Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by isharabash » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 2:28 PM UTC

brador wrote: post #12

A little help please! so I have a vine link, say http://vine.co/v/b53lmWrxtQr . How do I get the .mp4 link to the vine video itself? is there a vine api or do I hard scrape?

Looks like it would be easy to scrape, grab the src attribute from the video element.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by matt2000 » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 2:29 PM UTC

I also didn't realize that vine was making real movies with sound, thought it was just animated gifs then someone turned on a blender in a clip and I freaked out, hah.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by utopkara » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 2:30 PM UTC

Fantastic idea!

Broadcast TV distorts our model of the world by showing us only the extremes. Vinepeek puts normality in its proper place.

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by muratmutlu » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 2:38 PM UTC

Left this on my second monitor while I work, so mesmerising . I didn't think Vine would be this interesting when I first heard about it.

Maybe they've found mobile videos sweet spot?

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by thesorrow » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 2:43 PM UTC

Looks like youtube finally have something to worry about...

Re: Show HN: Vinepeek - watch the world in realtime in 6 second snippets

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Post by geori » Sat, Jan 26, 2013, 2:48 PM UTC

This is going to blow up. Coolest thing I've seen in quite some time. I love how there's no wait and it jumps from clip to clip.