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Tuesday, November 13. 2007

youtube search - sort by video playtime

The youtube search does a good job of searching videos. In its search page, it allows you to search by popularity/ratings/date. I have found that videos with longer playing time are usually the ones I am interested in, however, there is no option to sort the results by playing time.

I did a bit of digging in the Youtube Developer's guide and saw that they give the length of the video in seconds. The next piece was Yahoo! Pipes. I created a pipe which would fetch videos from youtube and then passes the results through the sort operator to sort the results based on the yt:duration field. Tada! That gives me videos matching my search criteria near the top.

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Posted by Raj Shekhar at 03:34 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0)

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Nice pipe! I run it.
Here is my youtube pipe: http://pipes.yahoo.com/macrostandard/youtube
You can run a lot of interesting Yahoo pipes in my site MacrosReader: http://reader.macrostandard.com/

#1 Dan N. Moldovan (Homepage) on 2007-12-31 10:08 (Reply)

Thanks! Glad you liked it

#1.1 Raj Shekhar (Homepage) on 2007-12-31 17:42 (Reply)

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