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YouTube Expands API: Good for Embedded Media Field
So YouTube just added some new features to their API:
- Upload videos and video responses to YouTube
- Add/Edit user and video metadata (titles, descriptions, ratings, comments, favorites, contacts, etc)
- Fetch localized standard feeds (most viewed, top rated, etc.) for 18 international locales
- Perform custom queries optimized for 18 international locales
- Customize player UI and control video playback (pause, play, stop, etc.) through software
How does this apply to Embedded Media Field? And how about to Drupal as a whole?
Embedded Media Field still needs to tie into the Media Mover module, firstly, to even allow uploading (harvesting) videos and sending them to YouTube (processing) before storing them in the content field. Once it does that, though, we can get a little smarter. Perhaps allowing users to post responses through the API, which would become YouTube videos showing up in response to a video there, and automatically also becoming a response to the Drupal content.
We can also tap into the custom queries when selecting video to embed.
Finally, we should be able to have more control over the UI, and could use jQuery to control the playback of the video, perhaps autoplaying a few seconds after the page load, or maybe jumping forward to our favorite part of the video. We'll have to see about that.
What does that mean for the Internet? As pointed out by Erick Schonfeld at TechCrunch, Google's just flexing their muscles a bit more, trying to ensure the bulk of video on the Internet goes through GooTube. At least Embedded Media Field is taking a more open approach, independently supporting many other providers, such as Blip.TV, Revver, and Brightcove.
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I think the feedapi integration patch is all that's really holding up a release, if you want to go over there and help test it...
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Tim (not verified)
when you say near term, is that near as in the next couple of weeks or near as in the next year? I have a job right now that could make use of this, I would like to stall for time until some sort of release, so an indication of any sort of release would be awsome. (I would be a willing tester)
cheers,,,, looks awsome.
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Oleg Terenchuk (not verified)
Interface building is already possible: http://drupal.org/project/atck
besides the benefits this technology brings (ajax stuff), we have to remain on our toes not to overload the system, because for example the sproutcore system is painfuly slow.
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TravisC (not verified)
Kinda interesting, it would be cool to see drupal apps going in this direction
http://www.sproutcore.com/ http://ajaxian.com/archives/an-interview-with-280-north-on-objective-j-a...From a design standpoint It would pretty neat to build apps in visual interface builder. Sproutcore is heading this direction already. http://developer.apple.com/documentation/DeveloperTools/InterfaceBuilder...
for these kind of apps SEO really isn't necessary.
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Oleg Terenchuk (not verified)
My battle plan was to offer API to other modules to display their content in 2 steps:
step 1) this is the first time content is being displayed. this will dump plain HTML from the server to the user
step 2) this will take the content in step 1 and attach actions to it so that when user interacts with that content it will isolate individual sections and communicate it back to the server via AJAX at which point content will be served through JSON + AJAX bypassing module's own theming layers.the flaw with step 2 is that the module will be limited only to theme functions that are currently defined by js_theming module.
I will take care to come up with with some solution that will enable misc modules expand the javascript theming functionality. the project is still in very early stage of it's life and it already supports item lists, table theme, handles drupal status messages in a smart and admin configured way, allows table themes to offer table sorts just like drupal core does. offers themes for l() and url() functions. i think i forgot to mention other things but as you can see its growing rapidly and pretty soon will include more features to aid user end javascript theming.
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It is pretty interesting how long took Youtube to release the API, I hope the drupal community can take advantage of this new option of customization.
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With that API open, we now already have a basic implementation, and Embedded Media Field support is on the way. I love how Open Source works: with its organic growth, it doesn't take long for it to embrace new things, particularly when the benefit for everyone is obvious.
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Note to self: see the
Note to self: see the discussion at http://groups.drupal.org/node/9829
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