astronaut

https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut I remember looking through the code awhile ago, it's nice and simple! Uses socket.io w node.js + express, a crawler script searches YT periodically to keep the videos fresh. The server iterates randomly through the video list, telling all clients through socket.io which video is next, and when to switch.

> but the idea itself isn't too original It's not immediately clear which one is the "original one", but this one has been around since at least 2012[1]. [1] https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut/commit/a9bdaf0d00588b7a...

> These videos come from YouTube. They were uploaded in the last week and have titles like DSC 1234 and IMG 4321. They have almost zero previous views. They are unnamed, unedited, and unseen (by anyone but you). How does it work, technically? Is there an API to pull videos with a certain title format within a certain range, and then are the sections of video randomly chosen? Edit: Found this https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut - answers some questions: > The server currently pulls in videos daily from youtube. Search criteria is [TAG]XXXX with upload time this week, where TAG is a raw video prefix such as 'dsc' or 'img'. This search turns out to be a good approximation for the data set of home videos created in the last week.

Here's the GitHub repo for the site: https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut - I'm sure you can go from there. :)

Thanks for pointing that out, i raised the issue on their repository: https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut/issues/5

Source code is available at https://github.com/wonga00/astronaut