Small Vod Thread. - Page 271

On March 31 2009 17:28 Pholon wrote:
Dear Updaters,

Time and time again, I find that, when making a post I have to type the same stuff again and have to scroll up, or even go back pages, to find the right images. No more! I made a kind of tool that, I hope, will help making posting here much easier. You can find it here. Any suggestions to make it better are very welcome. I'll PM fishyjoes, CDRdude, Vivi57 and JoxxOr about this (being the most recent updaters), if I should PM anyone else let me know. Also, I put the file on my dad's server, please don't go poking around on it.

Happy posting!

On April 01 2009 15:27 fonger wrote:

First off, thanks again for your work in keeping this thread up to date

EDIT: Just had a thought. If nevake was to use a certain format in the naming of his videos, I think I could put together a script that would automate the entire process :p Basically, you'd go to my link, hit a button that would scan nevake's page and pull out the games then provide you with the TL code on the fly for copy/paste. With a little careful averting of the eyes while copying and pasting and TLPD-izing, you could make a complete Small VOD Thread post without even getting spoiled yourself :p

On April 01 2009 16:45 zatic wrote:

Somebody wants to code TLPD2 :-)

You can easily write such a "scanner" using the Youtube Data API or just by parsing this feed:
http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/users/nevake/uploads?orderby=published

On April 01 2009 15:27 fonger wrote:

First off, thanks again for your work in keeping this thread up to date

I know some of you guys have this down to a fine art, but I've hacked together a script that might (with some tweaking perhaps) be useful. I've used the recent Protoss vs Terran Racewars match to demonstrate how it works:

+ Show Spoiler [Example] +
+ Show Spoiler [!!!RACEWARS SPOILER!!! - Input for above] +

Here's the link - should be fairly self-explanatory. Didn't take long at all, so no problem if you'd rather stick to doing things the way you have been :p

Several minor changes are necessary for it to be flexible enough for any matches (this draft is only really meant for WL-style matches), and it should be straightforward to incorporate the stuff from your link to do the banners automatically etc too.

EDIT: Just had a thought. If nevake was to use a certain format in the naming of his videos, I think I could put together a script that would automate the entire process :p Basically, you'd go to my link, hit a button that would scan nevake's page and pull out the games then provide you with the TL code on the fly for copy/paste. With a little careful averting of the eyes while copying and pasting and TLPD-izing, you could make a complete Small VOD Thread post without even getting spoiled yourself :p

On April 01 2009 18:17 fonger wrote:

Thanks for the link + info on YouTube API. Looked it up and found some interesting YouTube features, particularly the "Chromeless Player" which I suspect would be ideal for watching VODs (no progress bar etc).

I've put together a very simple "player" with only some of the bare essentials, but I'll work on making it more functional and presentable tomorrow (fullscreen and volume controls etc).

URL format is similar to YouTube's: http://www.starcraft.co.nz/svodt/view_vod.php?v=video_id_here

Example: http://www.starcraft.co.nz/svodt/view_vod.php?v=N7I7CEJg6a8

Pretty interesting stuff

On April 01 2009 18:49 Pholon wrote:


Fonger that's amazing! Major props man. I think automating the entire process is a bit far-fetched as of yet but can you incorporate the following points (don't know if it's hard to do):
- Banner. If you ask what league these matches are played in (by ticking a box - OSL/MSL/PL) you can easily include a banner in the UBB code. Maybe you can also use this checkbox to not include player's names within spoilers in non-WL PL and to just leave them out in 1v1s - If you can do this at least my tool will be completely redundant.
- TLPD-izing. If you type a map or player name in google, add 'tlpd' and hit "I'm feeling lucky" I almost never fail to get to the correct page. Is his doable in your script?
But again man, cheers. When the VODs start coming in again we'll see in which way people start using thes tools and we can really start improving them
(Also you incorporated the tiger link lol)

On April 01 2009 19:22 zatic wrote:

Something link this?

http://www.teamliquid.net/blogs/viewblog.php?topic_id=87579

On April 03 2009 22:54 Bob123 wrote:
There are LOTS of MSL preliminaries games up here.

23 of them to be exact! Don't know which games that are Idra's, they are not named properly.