Metafilter Youtube Rolling Playlist? December 14, 2013 2:36 PM Subscribe
I want to see all of the metafilter-linked youtube videos in a single Youtube playlist.
Here is a list of all the youtube playlist search results for 'Metafilter'. It looks like 200 is the max, so it would be a rolling playlist. Automated by scraping metafilter? If this is not done, I can try to figure it out, shouldn't be too hard. Should I open a project in MeFi Projects? Anyone wanna help?
Here is a list of all the youtube playlist search results for 'Metafilter'. It looks like 200 is the max, so it would be a rolling playlist. Automated by scraping metafilter? If this is not done, I can try to figure it out, shouldn't be too hard. Should I open a project in MeFi Projects? Anyone wanna help?
YouTube does this. Here's their MetaFilter Channel. This list is auto-generated by YouTube somehow. Maybe using referrers? I'm not sure how it works, but it pulls YouTube videos linked from MetaFilter.
posted by pb (staff) at 3:16 PM on December 14, 2013 [33 favorites]
posted by pb (staff) at 3:16 PM on December 14, 2013 [33 favorites]
That is amazing. My feeble attempts at time management are forever doomed, but whatever.
posted by ambrosia at 5:12 PM on December 14, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by ambrosia at 5:12 PM on December 14, 2013 [4 favorites]
Metafilter: forever doomed, but whatever.
posted by mannequito at 6:22 PM on December 14, 2013 [5 favorites]
posted by mannequito at 6:22 PM on December 14, 2013 [5 favorites]
I came to make a comment about how pb's powers of pony-request answering could only reach so far.
I am embarrassed and proud to have been preemptively schooled.
posted by anotherpanacea at 6:54 PM on December 14, 2013 [2 favorites]
I am embarrassed and proud to have been preemptively schooled.
posted by anotherpanacea at 6:54 PM on December 14, 2013 [2 favorites]
You know when they talk about the Googleplex? It's pb.
posted by arcticseal at 8:34 PM on December 14, 2013 [1 favorite]
posted by arcticseal at 8:34 PM on December 14, 2013 [1 favorite]
"YouTube does this. Here's their MetaFilter Channel. This list is auto-generated by YouTube somehow. Maybe using referrers? I'm not sure how it works, but it pulls YouTube videos linked from MetaFilter."
Wow. I just subscribed to it. And I had no idea there were that many YT videos linked in posts. There's way more than I notice. I guess it's been a long time since I read every post. Ah, well.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 12:48 AM on December 15, 2013 [1 favorite]
Wow. I just subscribed to it. And I had no idea there were that many YT videos linked in posts. There's way more than I notice. I guess it's been a long time since I read every post. Ah, well.
posted by Ivan Fyodorovich at 12:48 AM on December 15, 2013 [1 favorite]
it appears that the YouTube Metafilter channel may only pull videos that are above the fold, and possibly only one from each post even then? My current post links to several videos and playlists, and two are before the [more inside] but only one of them is listed.
posted by zarq at 4:37 AM on December 15, 2013
posted by zarq at 4:37 AM on December 15, 2013
This is an evil and diabolical pony that subsists uniquely on a diet of hay and ALL OF YOUR FREE TIME EVER.
posted by cacofonie at 7:07 AM on December 15, 2013 [4 favorites]
posted by cacofonie at 7:07 AM on December 15, 2013 [4 favorites]
This is really neat! I like how they link back to the original Metafilter post as well.
it appears that the YouTube Metafilter channel may only pull videos that are above the fold, and possibly only one from each post even then? My current post links to several videos and playlists, and two are before the [more inside] but only one of them is listed.
I think it just picks the first video linked to in the entire post. I made a post about the moon a few days ago with a couple YouTube links below the fold (none above). And the channel just picked the first one.
posted by bluefly at 11:29 AM on December 15, 2013
it appears that the YouTube Metafilter channel may only pull videos that are above the fold, and possibly only one from each post even then? My current post links to several videos and playlists, and two are before the [more inside] but only one of them is listed.
I think it just picks the first video linked to in the entire post. I made a post about the moon a few days ago with a couple YouTube links below the fold (none above). And the channel just picked the first one.
posted by bluefly at 11:29 AM on December 15, 2013
That's pretty awesome. I had no idea Youtube did that automatically.
posted by codacorolla at 11:31 AM on December 15, 2013
posted by codacorolla at 11:31 AM on December 15, 2013
Does Youtube do this for all domains over a certain amount of traffic? If so, is there a way to find it for a specific domain?
posted by codacorolla at 2:57 PM on December 15, 2013
posted by codacorolla at 2:57 PM on December 15, 2013
I don't know, codacorolla. But you might try searching Google for "youtube [site name] channel". If you do that with 'metafilter', the YouTube channel is the first result.
posted by pb (staff) at 9:38 PM on December 15, 2013
posted by pb (staff) at 9:38 PM on December 15, 2013
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posted by zarq at 2:46 PM on December 14, 2013