Check out my YouTube Observation Report

[WestCoastJTF]

I've been fooling around with this...I've had a hard time keeping track of everything we have on YouTube so I whipped this up:

http://www.jtfarchive.org/youtube_report.pl

I have a job that searches YouTube nightly (at 3am) for various JTF-related search terms (described in the header of the page).  It then builds a report of all videos it finds, including links, thumbnail pics, description, keywords, ratings summary, number of views, etc.

It's subject to YouTube's Developer API limitations...you can only get 1,000 results for any search term at the moment.  Searching for "JTF" is useless because there's some game called "Joint Task Force" that has a gazillion hits.  So I narrow down by what's in the keywords and descriptions.

[Boeregeneraal]

Very nice-did you program that robot?

[WestCoastJTF]

Yes, it's all done in perl.

Before someone mentions it, I'm aware it's not Unicode-compliant (yet), which is why some of the video titles in Hebrew print out as garbage...I'm not used to working with non-Latin-alphabet languages.  I will fix that once I read up on Unicode.

[Boeregeneraal]

Yes, it's all done in perl.

Before someone mentions it, I'm aware it's not Unicode-compliant (yet), which is why some of the video titles in Hebrew print out as garbage...I'm not used to working with non-Latin-alphabet languages.  I will fix that once I read up on Unicode.

wow! Great work West Coast!!!
I bet chaim would be very glad about this

[mord]

Thats great WestcoastJTF

[Boeregeneraal]

what other things can you program?

[WestCoastJTF]

What did you have in mind?

FYI, as regards YouTube...querying YT is easy, because they have an interface for that.  Doing something like "automatically login from 10 accounts and rate/favorite/comment on videos" is hard because they do not have an interface for that and Web 2.0 sites (like YT) are hard to automate.  There are YT bots out there...for example, a little googling turned this up:

http://www.tubetoolbox.com/