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Show HN: How I know what my neighbors uploaded on YouTube
- protomyth 11y agoSo the site asks if it can use my location and I click yes. Safari asks if it can use my location which I allow. I then hit the search button and am dumped into a map of Russia. Oh well. Tried on iPhone and it gives an address in the next town over, but the map shows the pointer in the correct town. What the heck?
- thenewvu 11y agosorry, that's my bad. I will fix it. For now, please manually pick your favorite places on the map.
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- alpacaaa 11y agoThis is amazing.
- thenewvu 11y agoThank you so much for supporting me.
- smy1es 11y agoI'm pretty impressed by this. It certainly shows a whole bunch of stuff happening near me that I had no idea about. So, how many videos are typically geotagged on Youtube? Most of them, or just those uploaded from phones and tablets with GPS?
- krick 11y agoSame thoughts here. Nothing really impressive in my case, but since I'm used to think that where I live is pretty boring place it's somewhat relieving to see that there's actually life happening around me. I guess I should take a walk more often.
- thenewvu 11y agoThank you! Usually, travel videos are geotagged, you can search with keyword "street food", "restaurant", "trip", "travel". And that is the primary purpose of the site.
- timothya 11y agoLooks like this site is just a wrapper around the YouTube search API, which allows you to specify a location to retrieve results from. From the documentation[0], "The location parameter, in conjunction with the locationRadius parameter, defines a circular geographic area and also restricts a search to videos that specify, in their metadata, a geographic location that falls within that area. The parameter value is a string that specifies latitude/longitude coordinates." Looks like you can add a location to your video in the Advanced Settings panel in the video settings: http://i.imgur.com/AtnTu7F.png http://i.imgur.com/AtnTu7F.png As far as I can tell, location is not added by default (I tried uploading a video that has embedded location data and that location was not added to YouTube; I would have to add the location manually). [0]: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list
- RyJones 11y agohow many products are "just a wrapper"? Why deride someone else's hack?
- verbin217 11y agoWhy infer derision from a statement that needn't necessarily have been? That something required a small amount of code or effort is valuable information. And actually, among hackers, usually positive.
- A_COMPUTER 11y agoAll church services and used car sales near me, haha. So, is there any way to get the exact geotagging location, or is this obscured by Youtube?
- lukeadams 11y agoCar dealership and "house for sale" videos for me out in the suburbs of North Texas ;)
- thenewvu 11y agoplease search with some keyword, the internet you know.
- hodwik 11y agoSame, just outside Phila.
- thenewvu 11y agoplease search with some keyword, the internet you know.
- joeletizia 11y agoNorth Jersey confirming same.
- thenewvu 11y agoplease search with some keyword, the internet you know.
- thenewvu 11y agoplease search with some keyword, the internet you know.
- aw3c2 11y agoPlease let me middle/right click on videos so I can open them in tabs.
- icelancer 11y agoAgreed. This is so frustrating. Stop trying to reinvent the UI with ridiculous restrictions like this.
- dredmorbius 11y agoI'd far prefer some sort of interface to allow me to queue the motherfucking videos in the queue-capable viewer of my choice. VLC has some of these features, though its tendency to catch fire and halt (destroying the queue in the process) is annoying.
- pdkl95 11y agohttps://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl https://github.com/rg3/youtube-dl 1. right-click -> "Copy Link Location" 2. middle click to paste the link into you shell 3. run "youtube-dl" on the URL(s) 4. watch the videos in whatever video player you want One of these days I should make a quick firefox extension that adds a context-menu option to collapse it down to one step. You will have to update youtube-dl every time (see the "-U" option) Google decides to change the obfuscation. Also, you may want to try the --list-extractors and --extractor-descriptions options, to see the long list of sites that are supported, which includes support for things like youtube playlists searches.
- dredmorbius 11y agoThat is in fact my working solution. The disadvantage over VLC is that you've got the videos sitting on disk, sucking space, while VLC will queue and buffer videos. Depending on what you're watching, youtube-dl can suck up a lot of space. Mind the -F and -f options -- these list and select video quality. I find '43' for YouTube (640x360) is usually sufficient for instructional materials (lectures/presentations).
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- m-i-l 11y agoSmallest distance you can select seems to be 5km, and I live in central London, so that's a few million people "nearby".
- tommoor 11y agoYep, San Francisco is even worse as you'd expect - <1km option would be nice :)
- hafifuyku 11y ago10m, 100m should work. "Valid measurement units are m, km, ft, and mi. For example, valid parameter values include 1500m, 5km, 10000ft, and 0.75mi."
- rrrrob 11y agoEditing the URL to 1km works.
- waterlesscloud 11y ago5km when you live in Hollywood brings up a LOT of videos. Heh.
- thenewvu 11y agothank you, I will add more options there.
- civild 11y agoSomeone living near my parents looks to have uploaded a hundred or so "chemtrail attack" videos. I honestly had no idea that people in the UK were into that sort of thing, but that's the internet I guess.
- slater 11y agoFunny, just checked near me (I'm in San Francisco), and lo & behold, chemtrails over SF, too! They're spraying everywhere!! ;)
- sillygeese 11y agoRelevant: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2rgWsv2kjA https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=A2rgWsv2kjA
- thenewvu 11y agoplease search with some keyword. the internet, you know.
- thenewvu 11y agoplease search with some keyword. the internet, you know.
- joehaaga 11y agoi built something similar for twitter. http://student.seas.gwu.edu/~jhaaga/YukOrYay/php/homepage.php http://student.seas.gwu.edu/~jhaaga/YukOrYay/php/homepage.ph...
- thenewvu 11y agoIt's cool. Hope to see a better version in the future.
- jnpatel 11y agoIt seems strange that it uses HTML5 Geolocation, but still drops me in Russia by default. Are others seeing the same behavior?
- Gracana 11y agoI'm tethered to my phone and it showed up with my exact address, so no, it worked maybe a little too perfectly.
- nly 11y agoI'm on home broadband and it got it down to my road... does FF cache your location?
- drac 11y agoBefore I authorized the browser to send geolocation information, it dropped me in Russia. Maybe it's the default?
- thenewvu 11y agoThank you, that's a bug.
- mahouse 11y agoIt does not work here, I have a desktop computer with no geolocation capabilities (no wifi), it just shows a white screen below the text.
- mod 11y agoWell done, this was pretty neat. Nearly all real-estate walk-throughs, but found a couple of neat things after wading through those.
- thenewvu 11y agoThank you so much!
- kruk 11y agoIt's fun! I didn't know YouTube had this functionality. A few comments: - It could use a couple of smaller radius settings though (1km and 100m). Nothing that Chrome Console can't fix but not everyone is a developer. - The intro page is a bit confusing, at first glance it might seem like an Android application, "Google Play" button being most prominent. - The search bar is a bit short, if you just type the number and street name it's likely you'll end up in a different country or state.
- thenewvu 11y agoThank you so much for the feedback. I come from a C++ dev, hope you know how hard to be good at Web UI :D. But trust me, it will be better in time.
- nsxwolf 11y agoPretty much nothing but used car ads for me.
- thenewvu 11y agoPlease search with some interesting keywords.
- stockkid 11y agoInteresting that majority of vids are sales video (car, property, etc.) on many locations I tried.
- vonklaus 11y agoI had this result as well. At first, I thought I was getting spammed but every result for the first few pages were real estate and car dealerships. As noted above, you may have to manually make the location available so that would self select gor these services.
- thenewvu 11y agoplease search with some keyword.
- arihant 11y agoI'm not sure what should surprise me more. The fact that I'm somehow living at epicentre of Zumba thumpquake or that I was completely unaware of so many women my age in my 1 km radius. Jokes aside, the sad thing is that YouTube would most likely have locations set by IP. So I'm certain the distances are off. At best this thing can tell me videos from my city. Still a neat hack.
- PhasmaFelis 11y agoThis post is currently the only Google result for "Zumba thumpquake". No quotes, even. So I still don't know what the heck it is, but thanks for helping me achieve a Googlewhack. :D
- SZJX 11y agoZumba is a dance.
- christiangenco 11y agoMy wife noticed a typo: > Specify keyword and radius to get a result near what your want. s/your/you/
- thenewvu 11y agothank you so much, sorry for my bad English, I will fix it.
- robodale 11y agoYay - nothing but car dealership videos.
- SZJX 11y agolol "travel the world". Don't be so grandiose. The only way to actually explore and travel the world is to set your feet out and get around, learn the language and culture. This is such nonsensical branding.