ScrapeUp.com Super Secret Beta Update
Hi all- I've made some updates to our new site ScrapeUp.com based on your feedback from the last time I posted. Specifically I've added filtering, dating and pagination.
ScrapeUp is a little tool that scrapes videos off the front pages of VideoSift, Digg, Reddit and a few other sites. The idea is to make things easy to find for submission to VideoSift - or just your own enjoyment.
Please have a look and let me know if you find any buggies. The plan is to add 4 more host sites and then release it live. As it's still locked up- use the following username and pasword: beta/s1ft3r
Thanks for your help!
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Mo meta mo betta - very nice!
Buggie: The "Contact us" link at the bottom is a 404 on VS. Ahh - It should be just "/contact" - you have "/contactus".
ESC to close popup doesn't work once vid has started playing (ffox3,windows)
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Thanks for that. Fixed the contact form, the escape problem might need a bit of thought.
what other sites are you planning to add?
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Well I was going to ask you all about that. I was thinking things that are a little out of the mainstream- maybe liveleak.com, rawstory.com - any suggestions?
LiveLeak is big and diverse which is both good and bad. Rawstory's good for news and politics related posts. I'd suggest milkandcookies.com, I find a lot of stuff there and I like their selection. They also feature lots of The Daily Show and Colbert videos, CC embeds (again, damn regional blocking issue comes up;)
Raw Story would be a GREAT addition. Other suggestions:
-Funny or Die (I even noticed Stumble Video recently added them)
-SuperDeluxe
-Milk And Cookies
-I Am Bored
Problems with "Submit to Videosift"-
There was a single quote in vid title ("you'll").. VS got very confused.
^That is because Siftbot hates contractions. They are a sign of laziness, and if Siftbot has to work as hard as it does then the least you can do is write "you will".
Meatbags! What are you going to do with them, Sifty?
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Good bug there- thanks winkler, I'll fix that.
Thanks for the suggestions- I'll add the easiest to scrape out of those suggested hosts and add it to the site.
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in /var/www/links.php on line 53
Could not connect: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
Been that way for a while I think
>> ^winkler1:
Warning: mysql_connect() [function.mysql-connect]: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2) in /var/www/links.php on line 53
Could not connect: Can't connect to local MySQL server through socket '/var/run/mysqld/mysqld.sock' (2)
Been that way for a while I think
Ditto
^ Ditto Ditto
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Oops. Our host found a bad drive last night and had to reboot the box. MySQL didn't come back up. It's OK now. Glad it's just us at this point.
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