[Develop] Adding Truveo Video Search

Nicholas Reville npr at pculture.org
Fri Jan 11 11:01:25 EST 2008


I think the problem is that the feed doesn't have enclosures, which is  
what we need to actually find the video file.  Can the Truveo feeds  
add enclosures?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RSS_Enclosures

nicholas




On Jan 10, 2008, at 7:10 PM, Adam Beguelin wrote:

>
> Yes, we return an RSS feed.   http://xml.truveo.com/rss?query=madonna
> for instance will return the videos for the query 'madonna'.
>
> This doesn't seem to work with Miro.  I've tried adding the feed as a
> channel.  I'm guessing Miro can be extended to handle our feed
> format.   There might be a way to download videos from the Truveo
> results if the redirects are handled correctly as well.
>
> It would also be nice to have Truveo as one of the built in search
> engines.
>
> 	Adam
>
> On Jan 11, 2008, at 5:32 AM, Chris Lahey wrote:
>
>> Do you guys have a search URL that returns RSS?  If so, adding it to
>> miro is completely trivial.
>>
>> If not, IMO, the best thing would be to add a search URL that
>> returns RSS.
>>
>> On Jan 10, 2008 4:50 PM, Adam Beguelin <adamb90 at yahoo.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> I'm interested in adding Truveo video search to Miro.  I co-founded
>>> Truveo, but recently retired, so I have some time on my hands.  :-)
>>>
>>> Any suggestions on where to start?
>>>
>>>        Regards,
>>>        Adam
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