Show HN: How I know what my neighbors uploaded on YouTube

http://tubenearyou.com

by thenewvu • 11 years ago

102 79 11 years ago

tubenearyou.com

alpacaaa• 11 years ago

This is amazing.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

Thank you so much for supporting me.

smy1es• 11 years ago

I'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?

krick2• 11 years ago

Same 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.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

Thank 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.

timothya3• 11 years ago

Looks 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

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

RyJones• 11 years ago

how many products are "just a wrapper"? Why deride someone else's hack?

verbin2172• 11 years ago

Why 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.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

Thank you for supporting me!

timothya3• 11 years ago

I regret using the word "just", sorry for seeming negative. I only meant to clarify that this doesn't expose any information that YouTube isn't purposefully providing as part of the search API. I apologize for the confusion!

SZJX4• 11 years ago

I don't think a "wrapper" is anywhere near the meaning of a "hack". Most of the things we see posted here on HN probably involve more work and creation. Not saying that such a wrapper is not valuable, just that I think this response just intends to point out a fact. To say it's a "derision" is way too reactive. So would you rather nobody point out the fact at all and just leave it be? That would be a far worse situation IMO.

elwell• 11 years ago

Yeah, it's one of the methods that we use to gather event videos automatically: http://wesawit.com/events

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

your site is great, but its pretty slow on my side.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

You're right. I'm trying to do something small first. I have many ideas by now, some big, they will come to life in the near future.

timothya3• 11 years ago

Good on you, it's definitely pretty neat! Sorry, I didn't mean to imply that this was simple or anything! At first I interpreted it as a security / privacy bug where you were exposing what your neighbors were uploading, so my comment was just meant to clarify that this is an intentional behavior of the YouTube API.

A_COMPUTER• 11 years ago

All 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• 11 years ago

Car dealership and "house for sale" videos for me out in the suburbs of North Texas ;)

hodwik• 11 years ago

Same, just outside Phila.

joeletizia• 11 years ago

North Jersey confirming same.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

please search with some keyword, the internet you know.

aw3c22• 11 years ago

Please let me middle/right click on videos so I can open them in tabs.

icelancer• 11 years ago

Agreed. This is so frustrating. Stop trying to reinvent the UI with ridiculous restrictions like this.

dredmorbius6• 11 years ago

I'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• 11 years ago

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.

krick2• 11 years ago

+1. Another nice (and I guess pretty simple) adjustment would be to show a circle on the map, to help user see, how much "5 km" (or whatever) exactly are.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

thank you, I will improve it in the next version.

aw3c22• 11 years ago

Thanks!

m-i-l• 11 years ago

Smallest distance you can select seems to be 5km, and I live in central London, so that's a few million people "nearby".

tommoor• 11 years ago

Yep, San Francisco is even worse as you'd expect - <1km option would be nice :)

hafifuyku• 11 years ago

10m, 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• 11 years ago

Editing the URL to 1km works.

waterlesscloud• 11 years ago

5km when you live in Hollywood brings up a LOT of videos. Heh.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

thank you, I will add more options there.

protomyth• 11 years ago

So 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?

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

sorry, that's my bad. I will fix it. For now, please manually pick your favorite places on the map.

civild• 11 years ago

Someone 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• 11 years ago

Funny, just checked near me (I'm in San Francisco), and lo & behold, chemtrails over SF, too! They're spraying everywhere!! ;)

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

please search with some keyword. the internet, you know.

joehaaga• 11 years ago

i built something similar for twitter. http://student.seas.gwu.edu/~jhaaga/YukOrYay/php/homepage.ph...

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

It's cool. Hope to see a better version in the future.

jnpatel• 11 years ago

It seems strange that it uses HTML5 Geolocation, but still drops me in Russia by default. Are others seeing the same behavior?

Gracana• 11 years ago

I'm tethered to my phone and it showed up with my exact address, so no, it worked maybe a little too perfectly.

nly2• 11 years ago

I'm on home broadband and it got it down to my road... does FF cache your location?

drac• 11 years ago

Before I authorized the browser to send geolocation information, it dropped me in Russia. Maybe it's the default?

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

Thank you, that's a bug.

mahouse• 11 years ago

It does not work here, I have a desktop computer with no geolocation capabilities (no wifi), it just shows a white screen below the text.

laoba• 11 years ago

I saw the same problem, but clicking the "Search" button actually showed results.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

It's a bug when the app can not detect your location. Please manually pick your favorite places in the map for now.

mod• 11 years ago

Well done, this was pretty neat.

Nearly all real-estate walk-throughs, but found a couple of neat things after wading through those.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

Thank you so much!

kruk• 11 years ago

It'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.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

Thank 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• 11 years ago

Pretty much nothing but used car ads for me.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

Please search with some interesting keywords.

stockkid• 11 years ago

Interesting that majority of vids are sales video (car, property, etc.) on many locations I tried.

vonklaus• 11 years ago

I 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.

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

please search with some keyword.

arihant• 11 years ago

I'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• 11 years ago

This 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

SZJX4• 11 years ago

Zumba is a dance.

christiangenco• 11 years ago

My wife noticed a typo:

Specify keyword and radius to get a result near what your want.

s/your/you/

thenewvu18• 11 years ago

thank you so much, sorry for my bad English, I will fix it.

robodale• 11 years ago

Yay - nothing but car dealership videos.

SZJX4• 11 years ago

lol "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.

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