Can Filemaker get the time of a youtube video in a web viewer

[mistery]

Hello

I am sorry but I do not have a clue how to do this.

 

I have a project where I have a lot of online youtube videos that I need to extract the url page and put it into a field called "URL" Also I need to extract the title under the video on the youtube page to a field called "title"  I haven't any understanding on how to do this but i need to accomplish this ASAP. I would be most grateful for help to do this?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Ps. If anyone from filemaker is listening we really need an android client

 

[Fitch]

You are talking about displaying in a FileMaker web viewer, right?

 

Start with GetLayoutObjectAttribute.

[Lee Smith]

Do not multiple post your question. If you want to add to the existing question, just post it as a reply.

 

Now that you explained what you are trying to do, then you could simply have a url and a web viewer. You create a new record for each video, copy the URL into your field and then have the url as a calculation for the Web View calculation.

 

Here is a simple example of what I mean.

 

 

mistery.fmp12.zip

[mistery]

I am at a loss what to say. I mistakenly reposted from another friends computer who is also online without realizing I was in his account.  So I have 2 posts and probably need to start over. I don't know how to do this except to apologize for my mistake. 

My first post was about trying to web scrape the title of youtube videos within the web viewer. But I don't even realize if it is possible to get the source code of a web page within the web viewer into filemaker automatically because I am not familiar enough to know what I am asking for. 

 

I just wanted to automate the extraction of the TITLES of videos in youtube. I have thousands of youtube URLs and I need to automate the extraction of the titles. I don't know if that is possible. If it is nothing filemaker can even do through calculation then I apologize but I don't even know.

 

The second post from the other account which was meant to be separate. I wanted to see if it was somehow possible for filemaker to move from one record to the next with records that contain youtube videos being played through the web viewer.  With a container field video i is easy to move to the next record when the video is done playing but in the case of video played online through the web viewer is quite another matter.  I was trying to see if this could be done. 

But since I messed all this up in the way I posted, it probably won't be answered.   

I have to use different computer because I lost my house in a flood last june . I am working out of mcdonalds wifi. I can't always answer right away. 

My apology to anyone I have offended. I just wanted to get some help with these two problems.

 

Thank you

[mistery]

Can Filemaker pull down the time of a youtube video through a webviewer? I would like to determine the time on a whole bunch of youtube videos.

[mistery]

I am trying to find a way to play through a bunch of youtube videos not on a playlist. That is why I am asking if there is a way for filemaker to determine the time of a given video.  I really wish there was some way to play through videos from several filemaker webviewer records in succession. Like a playlist does within youtube.

 

So if I had 10 filemaker records with a webviewer that displayed a youtube video in each record, i would like to find a way to finish playing each video in the order filemaker sorted those files at. Is this possible?

[Lee Smith]

Please keep all of your questions about this Web Viewer need in one topic and do not multiple post your questions.

[Fitch]

Sounds like you ought to be looking at the YouTube API.

[David Jondreau]

Sure, you can do this.

 

You need to grab the text of the page into a variable or a field. You can do this using a named Web Viewer and the GetLayoutObjectAttribute() function. Or maybe Insert from URL[].

 

Then, using the Position() and Middle() functions parse the text looking for the <title> and <length_seconds> tags.

[mistery]

thank you for the good answer. It is appreciated   I wasn't able to locate a <length_seconds> tag however. Any other way to get the time?