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It's apparently even been done before, see here at around the three minute mark: https://youtube.com/watch?v=UMYTSJTU0Vk https://youtube.com/watch?v=UMYTSJTU0Vk

sunebeck 7y ago
What an odd video!
rebane2001 7y ago
Oh hi, creator of the video here! It's just a fun video of me messing around with Windows 8.1 I made a while back, trying out different "apps" and stuff. I thought it'd be a fun easter egg to download the video itself when I was trying out that strange YouTube MP3 downloader app :D I didn't do it with the API (even though I tried to at first), just the normal youtube.com/upload site. I used Fiddler (Burpsuite alternative) to achieve this I am not the first person to do this however, Insane Doll Gallery has made a video demonstrating this [youtu.be/ufq2Eb78kSU] (apparently used the API) and the channel NightFalls Studios has also used this trick in their My Little Pony comic animations [youtu.be/FDLvR9xrCag and youtu.be/7oXsOmqs6R4]
- hanniabu 7y ago
  I always see creators popping up when something they made is mentioned. I find it too coincidental that you just happened to be on HN and happened to find the comment mentioning it. Do you use a service that scrapes sites and pings you of keyword mentions?
  - leppr 7y ago
    Websites can use the "referer" [1] property to show you where visitors are coming from. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
    - rebane2001 7y ago
      This is true, but for YouTube, the "referer" stats won't appear for a couple of days
  - rebane2001 7y ago
    I do use a keyword notifier on Reddit (mostly just for my name), but in this case, I just coincidentally noticed the spike of views on my video and put the video url into Google, which led me here
whycombagator 7y ago
so: https://youtu.be/UMYTSJTU0Vk?t=175 https://youtu.be/UMYTSJTU0Vk?t=175

sunebeck 7y ago

What an odd video!

rebane2001 7y ago

Oh hi, creator of the video here! It's just a fun video of me messing around with Windows 8.1 I made a while back, trying out different "apps" and stuff. I thought it'd be a fun easter egg to download the video itself when I was trying out that strange YouTube MP3 downloader app :D I didn't do it with the API (even though I tried to at first), just the normal youtube.com/upload site. I used Fiddler (Burpsuite alternative) to achieve this I am not the first person to do this however, Insane Doll Gallery has made a video demonstrating this [youtu.be/ufq2Eb78kSU] (apparently used the API) and the channel NightFalls Studios has also used this trick in their My Little Pony comic animations [youtu.be/FDLvR9xrCag and youtu.be/7oXsOmqs6R4]

hanniabu 7y ago
I always see creators popping up when something they made is mentioned. I find it too coincidental that you just happened to be on HN and happened to find the comment mentioning it. Do you use a service that scrapes sites and pings you of keyword mentions?
- leppr 7y ago
  Websites can use the "referer" [1] property to show you where visitors are coming from. [1]: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Referer https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/Headers/Re...
  - rebane2001 7y ago
    This is true, but for YouTube, the "referer" stats won't appear for a couple of days
- rebane2001 7y ago
  I do use a keyword notifier on Reddit (mostly just for my name), but in this case, I just coincidentally noticed the spike of views on my video and put the video url into Google, which led me here

whycombagator 7y ago

so: https://youtu.be/UMYTSJTU0Vk?t=175 https://youtu.be/UMYTSJTU0Vk?t=175