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>Basically I guessed the id of the submission That's... kinda of letdown. Was expecting a more intrigued approach but apparently HN is slow enough for guessing
by forgotpwd16 4y ago
>Basically I guessed the id of the submission
That's... kinda of letdown. Was expecting a more intrigued approach but apparently HN is slow enough for guessing to work.
- tomschwiha 4y agoI actually was first thinking about writing a small script to check if an ID is in use and then auto create a submission.. however I first checked how often the ids actually change.. and in the moment I checked it was about one new comment/submission every 30 seconds. I guess an timezone advantage .. when there is more traffic I guess the automation would win.
- 8n4vidtmkvmk 4y agoyou can reference a YouTube video id in the video itself. that's much harder to do.
- varun_ch 4y agoHere's a short write up about doing this. https://varun.ch/video-id https://varun.ch/video-id :) It works because there are two requests associated with creating a YouTube video. First, the metadata is sent (file size, video title, etc.) and it returns a video ID. Then the actual video content is sent. I cancelled the upload request and replaced the video with a new one I rendered quickly.