To do a search in YouTube, try: http://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=xyz
where you replace xyz with your search terms On Oct 18, 2:18 pm, Bob Paige <bobpa...@gmail.com> wrote: > I have a TW of songs we perform at my church, one song per tiddler. So far > I've been manually looking for youtube links for those songs, but I'm > wondering if there is some way to do this more automatically, or at least > without having to switch back and forth so much between browsers. > > My current solution (assuming you know the youtube url for the song) is a > macro that takes the URL as a parameter and displays it with this: > "+++[<img src =http://www.youtube.com/favicon.ico>]<html><object width='425' > height='355'><param name='movie' value='" + link + "'></param><param > name='wmode' value='transparent'></param><embed src='" + link + "' > type='application/x-shockwave-flash' wmode='transparent' width='425' > height='355'></embed></object></html>===" > > This gives me a youtube icon that, when I click on it, expands to show an > embedded youtube player. Works well. > > What would be cool is to have a macro that, given the song title, queries > youtube and parses the resulting html for song links, then display them as > options for the user (they could be embedded youtube viewers similar to > above). The user could select one and that URL would be placed in my > videolink field (an extended field I have on the tiddler). > > I think the big part I'm missing is the html-parsing; is there any existing > code to help me with this, or do I just need to roll my own in javascript? > > Or is there another elephant in the room I'm not seeing? > > -- > Bobman -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TiddlyWiki" group. To post to this group, send email to tiddlyw...@googlegroups.com. To unsubscribe from this group, send email to tiddlywiki+unsubscr...@googlegroups.com. For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tiddlywiki?hl=en.
