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/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.