[Develop] Adding Truveo Video Search

Adam Beguelin adamb90 at yahoo.com
Tue Jan 15 00:36:29 EST 2008


I'll mention it to the Truveo folks.  Maybe they can add it.

	Adam

On Jan 11, 2008, at 11:01 PM, Nicholas Reville wrote:

> 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
>
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>
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> 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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