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[JoyceBabu]

Does anyone know any video sharing script that allows me to display videos from youtube and metacafe on my site.
I am not looking for a script that allows my users to upload videos to my site, but a script that uses the YouTube and MetaCafe api to search and display videos.

[Cirtex]

Hi,
There are quiet a few youtube clones out there that runs on LAMP servers for free but you will need to put some work to customize/differentiate yourself from the rest.
As for the youtube/metacafe api, that's gonna have to be installed as an addon with most of these scripts, shouldn't be too hard to find.
Good luck!

[MikeDVB]

I believe phpMotion and ClipShare both have an addon that allows you to do what you are asking, but you will have to run the searches on YouTube and "embed" the videos into your site as your site won't work as a gateway to YouTube.
I don't know of any Gateway scripts that will allow you to search YouTube from your own site and then display the results within your own site. It's certainly doable but I don't think there is a pre-made script out there for it.

[mdnava]

There's a good take onthe subject on IBM's developerWorks:
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-youtubeapi/

[JoyceBabu]

Thanks a lot for all the replies. I have already created a custom script for YouTube. I just thought it would have been much better if there was a readymade script.
I will search youtube/metacafe/../.. for videos and will provide the url of the video to the script. It just have to retrieve the details about the video and save to database.
I will check ClipShare and phpMotion

[lady2009]

Thanks a lot for all the replies. I have already created a custom script for YouTube. I just thought it would have been much better if there was a readymade script.
I will search youtube/metacafe/../.. for videos and will provide the url of the video to the script. It just have to retrieve the details about the video and save to database.
I will check ClipShare and phpMotion
I have a website that runs phpmotion and has Youtube grabber which works pretty well.
By the way I believe you created the addon for the script. But which script are you using to host videos?

[shahrul]

Hi,
I also want to add ShareMixer (http://www.sharemixer.com) as a video sharing scripts.

[JoyceBabu]

I have a website that runs phpmotion and has Youtube grabber which works pretty well.
By the way I believe you created the addon for the script. But which script are you using to host videos?
I am not hosting any videos. I am planning to create a site, that displays videos from various video sharing sites.

[MikeDVB]

I am not hosting any videos. I am planning to create a site, that displays videos from various video sharing sites.
You may not be able to do exactly what you are wanting, I'm not sure how YouTube/MetaCafe will respond to it when/if they take notice.

[Jedito]

You may not be able to do exactly what you are wanting, I'm not sure how YouTube/MetaCafe will respond to it when/if they take notice.
He wont have any problem, Youtube API is open to everybody http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=yFlR6EEySg8
To the OP, have you tried something like http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2007/06/16/phptube-youtube-api-for-video-upload-download/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-youtubeapi/

[MikeDVB]

Ah, I didn't look into it in any depth, thanks for pointing that out Jedito

[TierNetwork]

There is a mod for phpmotion that allows you to embed youtube videos. But that mod has been dead for couple of months.

[JoyceBabu]

He wont have any problem, Youtube API is open to everybody http://www.youtube.com/blog?entry=yFlR6EEySg8
To the OP, have you tried something like http://nonsmokingarea.com/blog/2007/06/16/phptube-youtube-api-for-video-upload-download/
http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-youtubeapi/
I have already integrated YouTube and MetaCafe. Both of them provide an api for accessing the service. Almost all the sites allow embedding their video in our site. But most of them lack an api, hence it is not possible to get details like duration of the video, rating, thumbnail etc.

[lady2009]

There is a mod for phpmotion that allows you to embed youtube videos. But that mod has been dead for couple of months.
Not sure what you mean by the term "dead for couple of months". I see they are still offering the video grabber mod that grabs videos from major video sharing websites:
http://phpmotion.com/content/view/39/183/