Posted by rmassamiri on August 10, 2008 at 3:51pm
It would be nice to be able to upload a video (and it's corresponding title, description, category, etc.) to a drupal 6 site and have it automatically cross-post the same video and its info to YouTube, iTunes, and others. I have noticed that blip.tv cross-posts to iTunes and others, but not to YouTube. Any thoughts or suggestions? Thanks.
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Use Tubemogal
I don't know if tubemogul has an api to allow for uploading videos from another site, but is it really necessary? Why not have people upload via tubemogal, and bring in feeds from one of the corresponding accounts?
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology
Alex Urevick-Ackelsberg
ZivTech: Illuminating Technology
Thanks for the suggestions.
Thanks for the suggestions. I checked out tubemogul and this seems like a great service to distribute videos to multiple sites in "one click" and all the analytics are great. Also, your advice on bringing in a feed from one of these sites makes sense as well. It would be nice to bring along all the meta data (title, category, description, etc.) that goes along with each video and it looks like this might be possible with OpenPackage Video except that it is yet to be available for Drupal 6.
The next big thing would be to bring along all the comments/discussions associated with each video from all the other shared sites so that can be consumed in one central place. Tubemogul seems to be able to aggregate all the comments through their comments manager and I have emailed them to inquire more on how they do that and if that information could be made public to viewers of the videos. I will post any information they have.
Thanks.
YouTube API Module
You could also check out the youtube api project at http://drupal.org/project/youtube_api for getting your videos to YouTube. It would require a bit of glue code to interface with the module, but it's not too difficult. I'd be willing to share examples with you if that's the route you decide to go.
Thanks for the info. Yes
Thanks for the info. Yes I'm interested in seeing any examples you may have. Does the YouTube API also integrate analytics and all the other communications such as comments, subscribers, etc.? Thanks.
Analytics?
I'm not quite sure what you mean by integrating analytics. The module does provide information about things like number of video views, average ratings, number of ratings, and associated comments. In addition the API provides functionality to rate and comment on videos directly from your site. All of this does require a bit of coding, which I'm hoping someone else will step up and help out with, but the YouTube API module allows it to be done quite easily. I'll provide some examples shortly.
That's great. I look
That's great. I look forward to seeing the examples. Thanks.