selfstasis

In my previous post I created a widget called “MyTube” which uses the YouTube api to find my favorite videos. It’s actually quite simple - you just make a rest call to youtube’s api services which return an xml to whatever you called. I then just extract the specific child nodes from the xml that need. However, to create a fully customized player, I had to get to the YouTube flv source to stream instead of loading a pre-compiled swf player that YouTube already pushes out. That’s where the flv ripper service comes to use. I take the video id which then goes to the flv ripper service and returns to me a link to stream into the player.

I can’t take credit for the ripper code unfortunately, I don’t have time to write one - but KEJ did with his online ripper called GooTube FLV Ripper and made the php source code available. I took his code modified it to create a serviceable interface for flash so calls to the service returned to me a url bounded to object in flash then created the app below. Pretty sweet. I’m working on creating a flv widget for mac os x and yahoo. I’d like to thank KEJ!

yup. designed. coded. by moi. enjoy. more here and to get it for yourself. credit all goes to YouTube for opening up their APIs for easy access to their content.