+1 simplicity!
tyty :D
Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
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Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
#52Really good idea and well executed. Would you mind saying a few words behind the code? Do you scrape the whole video, or just the part requested? And is the conversion to gif a library or something you wrote? I'm totally ignorant when it comes to scraping videos and converting them, but I find it interesting.
AWHH! Thank you :D.
Sure! I will email you about this :D. Cheers
Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
#53Earlier quoted context omitted.
If you want to convert GIFs to WebM/MP4/etc you might want to check out the MediaCrush[1] code. Or just use https://mediacru.sh , which is and always will be free. [1]: https://github.com/mediacrush/mediacrush
Thank you! Are you behind midacru.sh?
I am indeed. Happy to answer your questions.
Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
#54Earlier quoted context omitted.
Plan was to get a different domain (suggestions?) and fwd it but still have the GYT functionality I'm not 100% sure if youtube minds. Someone from youtube actually put it on one of their videos (a button for it), and then said youtube community department were having fun and spreading it around We don't use a 3rd party queueing software ^_^.
Awesome concept! I am not a lawyer, but it seems one could easily argue that an "idiot in a hurry" might confuse this for youtube. Which is sort of what the threshold is for this sort of thing nowadays. So, yea, start thinking about a domain that doesn't include youtube
Thank you Paul :D
Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
#55Earlier quoted context omitted.
Absolutely! We actually made a webm version (that's the smallest size to date and the fastest to create), but just wanted to perfect GIF creation and get some captions on the system early before introducing webm. Maybe we should reverse that?
It depends, who is your actual target audience? If it's a general anyone and everyone, gif is the way to go. If it's a more technical audience, who probably know what webm already is, then webm may make more sense And from a more marketing side of things If you went gif first and five months down the line announcing support for webm makes you look innovative and will probably get you posted to a handful of subreddits…
Definitely. At first we wanted to target general audience and then transition into more technical.
It's a little conflicting because I love HN and reddit, so my* general preferences differ from what I think is actually the best transition :3
Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
#56Really good idea and well executed. Would you mind saying a few words behind the code? Do you scrape the whole video, or just the part requested? And is the conversion to gif a library or something you wrote? I'm totally ignorant when it comes to scraping videos and converting them, but I find it interesting.
I'm also interested in how you're doing this. I also wanted to do youtube previews for a website and this seems strictly superior to the thumbnails they offer :)
Also, why don't you throw Adsense on this page?
Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
#57Are you willing to add a way to easily export to Mediacrush (https://mediacru.sh)? Would be super useful.
Re: Show HN: Put “GIF” in front of any YouTube URL and hit enter
#58Excellent job! I love url hacking =). I still frequently type "repeat" after "youtube" in order to loop songs, but I probably wouldn't bother to cut and paste the url into a third party site.