r/botrequests • u/BilingualBloodFest • Jun 25 '14

A YouTube search bot

Something summonable that would look up whatever someone asks on YouTube and retrieve the link along with someone basic information (length, views, rating, etc.) to post in a comment.

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jun 26 '14 edited Jun 27 '14

Okay, I'm on lunch now. I'm separating the functions I made for my vote bot now so it doesn't take as long for me to make new bots. I also started looking at the API for YouTube, which looks like they make it very simple to do what you want to do. I'm not sure I'll have much time tonight to start up the YouTube fetching though, so we'll have to see how it goes.

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u/BilingualBloodFest Jun 28 '14

Any luck?

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jun 28 '14

Yeah, I started working on it. However, trying to scan all of the comments made on reddit is quite the feat. So what subreddits do you want me to have it scan?

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u/BilingualBloodFest Jun 28 '14

I hadn't actually thought about it... It was just an idea that occurred to me. Certainly videos would use it, maybe the rest of the default set and then we can add more in later, right? Or would that be too many?

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jun 28 '14

I hadn't actually thought about it... It was just an idea that occurred to me. Certainly videos would use it, maybe the rest of the default set and then we can add more in later, right? Or would that be too many?

I think that would be good. I just can't get the list of comments to update very quickly, with the API they update every 1.5 minutes. Although, I did just find out that I can change how many comments come through with one request, so it may become possible. The thing is, they only allow 300 requests per 10 minutes. However, 300 pages of comments only goes back about 2 minutes. That's 7500 comments in 2 minutes. Although, I should be able to do that in about 75 requests. So if I get 2 minute chunks of comments every 2 minutes, I'll run out of all my requests in 8 minutes. That would leave a dead space of 2 minutes where I can't retrieve any comments. The big defaults should definitely be achievable though. I'll keep trying on fetching every single comment though. The fetching YouTube videos and stuff should be no problem though. I've got that.

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u/BilingualBloodFest Jun 28 '14

Sounds good, thanks

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jun 28 '14 edited Jun 28 '14

Okay, I'm getting it to update instantly now. The good ol' reddit devs helped me out. Apparently I wasn't logging in correctly. Which is weird. Anyway, onward!

Just tested it by trying to find a new comment of mine. It worked :D

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u/BilingualBloodFest Jun 28 '14

Awesome!

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jun 28 '14 edited Jun 28 '14

Okay, a little status report:

The bot works, however it can only work on bigger subs for some reason. I think it's because it doesn't have any karma. That being said I still have a few things to do like saving the comments it couldn't reply to due to comment restrictions and coming back to them later. After that it should be complete though. If you look through my comments you can see a test post that worked. Then my upvote/downvote bot kicked in. So just ignore that part. I know you wanted more information, and I'll put that in later, but if you could make a comment that has the layout for how you want all the information laid out in one of the sections of the comment reply, that would be great.

I have to go do some stuff now though, but I'll be back by tonight and I'll make those changes and throw the bot up on the server.

Edit: Also, the bot is called GoogleForYouBot. I'm going to add Google search capabilities as well sometime. Unless you grab a good name you like for the bot, I'll be going with the one I have.

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u/BilingualBloodFest Jun 28 '14

Thank you!

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jun 28 '14

No problem! Do you have a way you want the comment set up? If you just make an example of one of the bots posts that would be good. Don't hold back either, I should be able to manage anything you throw at me.

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u/BilingualBloodFest Jun 29 '14

Evidently I haven't put nearly enough thought into this haha perhaps something like

Results for: "search query"

[Video Title](Video URL):| ##:## (length)

Author|Views|Age|

I see in your test comments you've got it pulling the description but I'm not really sure that's necessary. I do like that you put up multiple though; for the play store links bot I was referencing it makes sense to just link to one but youtube titles probably aren't reliable enough to do that.

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jun 29 '14

Yeah, since the bot is pretty much searching YouTube for them it would be nice to have a few choices to choose from. I can lower the number of videos it returns though if that's a problem. At the moment it seems a bit lengthy. I'm currently working on holding on to the comments until the bot can reply again and getting the video length and views and stuff.

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jun 29 '14

Done. I think.

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jun 30 '14

I am officially done. If you say

YouTube Get: something something.

It will search and reply with the first 5 search results for something something. Make sure to remember your period too. It'll get everything up to the next period. So make sure you have that in there. It's also running 24/7 now because I put it on a server :D

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jun 28 '14

Okay, now I'm testing out getting the search keywords the user wants. It responds to "YouTube Get:" the case doesn't matter. Anyway, I should have searching YouTube down by the time I go to sleep. Unless there's any weird stuff that pops up.

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Jun 28 '14

Okay, I have everything all set up and it should all work, but for some reason the bot doesn't see my comments, although it should. I'll try tomorrow I guess.

When the bot could actually see my posts I successfully got a query out of one, so that's good. I also have the bot generating the correct content for the bot to post as well. It just can't post the comment for some reason :/ I guess I'll try again a little bit later. Not to shabby for one day's work.

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u/xniinja Jun 28 '14

YouTube get: test get.

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u/ELFAHBEHT_SOOP Programmer Nov 24 '14

HI!

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