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I would like to know how to create a huge playlist from many

Posted: Wed Jul 28, 2010 12:00 pm
by petter-e
Hi there,

I would like to know how to create a huge playlist from many separate YouTube Playlists - have a look at this:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/stan ... y_featured

The feed above will play in a Flash player such as JW player (http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/jw ... xample=213)

Now have a look at this:

http://www.youtube.com/view_play_list?p ... 756912D7CB

...That's one of my playlists - it is limited to a certain amount of videos, I can play it in JW but it will only show a maximum of 25-50 videos.

Now, let's say I want to create a huge playlist with hundreds or thousand of entries from many shorter ones such as the last one - they still need to be in a format that plays in JW - I've been trying to do this for quite a while...

I was discussing this with another fella and he suggested that I should "use a simple serverside PHP script to request 10,000 playlists of 50 items each" and his solution seemed to almost work but in the end it sort of broke, possibly due to some recent changes on YT's side (you can compare this question with a previous thread on the JW forum: http://www.longtailvideo.com/support/fo ... ment-82026)

If anyone knows how to do this, please help.

Kind regards

Pongy

Re: I would like to know how to create a huge playlist from

Posted: Thu Jul 29, 2010 2:31 pm
by Jade
I'm not sure how this ended up in the javascript section. What errors are you getting when you try to run the php file?

Re: I would like to know how to create a huge playlist from

Posted: Fri Jul 30, 2010 10:42 am
by petter-e
Jade,

Well I can run the PHP file and receive a rather neat playlist; I think the problem may be that it needs to be in this format:

http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/stan ... y_featured

On a separate note, I think this may be the right forum after all, JW is Javascript based and this would be a serverside script in PHP - correct me if I'm wrong.

Thinggynoly,

Well let's work on this till we found a solution then, I know there are lots of us out there that want to create long YT playlists but it may not be very easy.