Created a website listing all EEVBlog Episodes - Page 1
Forum section: electronics / general

author: zeryl
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 02:59:26 pm
content: So I got tired of trying to hunt and peck using Youtube's wonderful interface, and wrote a quick (hah) script that uses Youtube's data api, and grabbed a list of all episodes, and inserted em to a database. It's been helpful for me so far (search for mailbag and see all of the mailbag episodes).Would anyone else be interested in seeing this/using it? It is currently only updating when I run a script, but easily added to cron to check hourly and auto-insert the new items.I didn't want my first post to be just a website link, so wanted to see if there was any interest first.Edit: Yes, I know about the playlists on the channel, but trying to hope Youtube keeps track of viewed videos, is always a crap shoot, so this works slightly better for me.

author: Richard Crowley
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 03:23:38 pm
content: Yes, please.There is no discernible organization to the seeming-random operation of YouTube.

author: Legit-Design
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 03:35:28 pm
content: http://www.myepisodes.com/frontpage.phpNeat way to keep track of episodes. But it only has series from tvrage.com because it uses their api. Maybe something similar for EEVblog episodes? I find their interface working and some features are just extra.

author: zeryl
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 03:51:25 pm
content: Here's what I have so far.http://kc0udt.cloudns.org/eevblog/I was thinking of how neat it would be (if I can be bothered to do it) to allow a login to it, to let you mark episodes watched, so that you know you have it tracked (at least tracked better than the 'tube can do).Right now, it's just a largeish HTML page, using jquery + datatables to do the "pretty" table/sorting/search/pagination. No other functionality is really included so far.

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 03:55:57 pm
content: Very nice and very useful! Would be useful to have it integrated in the official eevblog.com site.

author: zeryl
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 04:13:43 pm
content: I'm more than willing to pass the code/schema along. Will require someone to setup the Youtube API key in the google dashboard however.Whoever is in charge of the site can contact me, and I'll get the stuff over to them.

author: w2aew
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 04:46:23 pm
content: Quote from: zeryl on June 02, 2014, 03:51:25 pmPretty cool - can you do that for my channel too??? ;-)

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 04:57:07 pm
content: Quote from: w2aew on June 02, 2014, 04:46:23 pmInteresting channel. Just subscribed.

author: zeryl
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 05:10:53 pm
content: Quote from: w2aew on June 02, 2014, 04:46:23 pmDone:http://kc0udt.cloudns.org/w2aew/It's processing through right now, so it may take a few minutes before you see everything listed.

author: mariush
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 05:25:40 pm
content: Interesting. You did some good work.A minor feedback : declar the content as UTF-8, so that text like "µRuler Shipment Update" will show up properly" (it's between eevblog #535 - #536)

author: zeryl
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 05:29:32 pm
content: Quote from: mariush on June 02, 2014, 05:25:40 pmThank you for the feedback, implemented. Didn't even think about it!

author: zapta
author_rank: Super Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 05:30:15 pm
content: Also, would be nice to sort by episode number (currently 2, 3, 1, 4) and have page links with episode number ranges, and make the episode titles also links.

author: jquinn11733
author_rank: Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 05:34:59 pm
content: Just my two cents (from a active lurker), it wouldbe nice to have "all" or "9999", added to thelist of 10, 25, 50, and 100 "show entries".thanks and regards,- JQuinnhttp://kc0udt.cloudns.org/eevblog/

author: zeryl
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 05:41:54 pm
content: Quote from: zapta on June 02, 2014, 05:30:15 pmHrmm, would have to figure out a good way to alter the sort order for it. Unfortunately, it's "natural language" sort when you do a sort on name, and defaults on "posted date" otherwise. It's doing 1, 100, etc. It's not the best, but it's how it is today (I will work on it).For the episode number, you thinking something like 1-100, 101-200, etc?Episode titles as links: done!Quote from: jquinn11733 on June 02, 2014, 05:34:59 pm"All" is now an option for you!

author: rexxar
author_rank: Frequent Contributor
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 05:43:30 pm
content: Quote from: mariush on June 02, 2014, 05:25:40 pmThe mu shows up fine for me

author: zeryl
author_rank: Newbie
timestamp: June 02, 2014, 05:45:34 pm
content: Quote from: rexxar on June 02, 2014, 05:43:30 pmI've already fixed it at this point, so it appears correctly for you