SocialEngine Video Feed Plugin

Vincent — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 08:10:53 +0000

NOTE: This page is for SE v4, if you are looking for SE v3, please visit Video Plugin Plugin for SocialEngine v3 page. If you have Video Feed plugin license for SE v3, and would like to upgrade to v4, please visit Video Feed Plugin – Version Upgrade v4 page

This plugin allows your social network to have dynamic, content rich videos on your website without lifting your fingers. Great utility for displaying videos for your community. It doesn’t require you to upload any of the actual video content to your server. This plugin would dynamically pull in YouTube content based on varieties of settings and filters that you specify in admin area. Members can also associated their YouTube accounts which would get listed on their profile page as well as member feeds.

Key Features

Main public pages are widgetized, and managable via Admin :: Layout Editor
Wide range of supported search parameters such as keywords, author, category, duration, time, region etc..
Pre-Filterring for browse / search videos such as main keyword, category, country restriction, search-search.
Supported major YouTube standard feed types such as Top Rated, Favorties, Most Viewed/Popular/Recent/Discussed/Responded, Recently Featured.
Member can associate their YouTube account to auto pull videos which integrated on their profile pages.
etc..

Built-in Widgets

Below are built-in widgets with a lot of configuration options / settings allowing you to customize the video feedpages via Layout Editor anyway you like.

General Widgets

List-Query Video Feeds: display a set of videos that match a particular search term. The API supports a variety of standard Google Data query parameters and custom parameters specifically related to video search. For example, you can search for videos uploaded by a particular author or videos associated with a particular YouTube category.
- Title Header
- Max Items (control number of videos to be displayed)
- Sorting (varieties of ordering, such as relevance, published date, view count, or rating)
- Author (only video uploaded by a particular YouTube account)
- Keyword (match videos with certain tags, search string)
- Category (restrict video in selected category)
- Restriction (only display video per country restriction rule)
- Time (limit video published within defined period, such as 24 hours, weekly, monthly etc..)
- Duration (video length: short, medium, or long)
- Safe-Search (restrict content mode: none, strict, moderate)
- Display Style: support 4 different types of displaying video result
  - Wide mode (main / middle column)
  - Narrow mode (narrow / left & right side column)
  - Slideshow format
  - News Ticker format
- Display Output (control what to show: photo, meta, description)
Standard Video Feeds: standard feeds are lists of videos that either reflect YouTube user behavior, such as top-rated and most viewed video feeds, or were selected by YouTube staff, such as recently featured and mobile video feeds. You can filter videos by feed type, category, region etc.. and control how videos would be displayed.
- Title Header
- Max Items (control number of videos to be displayed)
- Feed Type (Top Rated, Favorties, Most Viewed/Popular/Recent/Discussed/Responded, Recently Featured)
- Category (restrict video in selected category)
- Region (only display video in certain region)
- Display Style: support 4 different types of displaying video result
  - Wide mode (main / middle column)
  - Narrow mode (narrow / left & right side column)
  - Slideshow format
  - News Ticker format
- Display Output (control what to show: photo, meta, description)
Main Menu Navigation: (Browse Petitions | My Petitions | Share New Files)
Search Form: display form to search for petitions

Profile Integration Widgets

Profile (Member) Video Feed: Displays a member video feed on Member Profile page.
- Title Header
- Max Items (control number of videos to be displayed)
- Sorting (varieties of ordering, such as relevance, published date, view count, or rating)
- Display Output (control what to show: photo, meta, description)

Video Profile Widgets

Below are built-in widgets which let you build Video Profile Page (view sample page) via Layout Editor

Video Profile – Breadcrumb: display navigation path to the video in breadcrumb style
Video Profile – Related Videos: display videos related to main current viewing video, as determined by YouTube, on its profile.
Video Profile – Social Shares: displays a petition’s social shares such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg etc..using AddThis service.

Member Feed Profile Widgets

Below are built-in file widgets which let you build Member Feed Profile Page (view sample page) via Layout Editor

Member Video Feed – Breadcrumb: displays a member video feed’s breadcrumb on its profile.
Member Video Feed – Member: displays member’s photo and display name on its profile.
Member Video Feed – Social Shares: displays social shares such as Facebook, Twitter, Digg using AddThis service on its profile.

Back-End

Manage / search member video feeds
Pre-Filterring for browse / search videos such as main keyword, category, country restriction, search-search
Permission to view: no, yes and for owner only, all petitions
Permission to create: no, yes
etc..

Demo

For demonstration purposes, we have turned off some options / features on purpose to prevent abuse. Some pages may require you to log in or special permissions, please feel free to create an account for full test-drive experience.

Screenshots

Below are selected sample screenshots in admin control panel. For user front-end screenshot, please check out the live demo section above.

Video Feed Plugin for SocialEngine v3

Vincent — Sat, 08 Aug 2009 06:57:55 +0000

NOTE: This page is for SE v3, if you are looking for SE v4, please visit SocialEngine Video Feed Plugin page.

This plugin allows your social network to have dynamic, content rich videos on your website without lifting your fingers. Great utility for displaying videos for your community. It doesn’t require you to upload any of the actual video content to your server. This plugin would dynamically pull in YouTube content based on keywords you specify in admin area. Users can also search for videos. Popular tags are also available as a great way to understanding more about your users.

Main Features:

User now have his/her own video page which pull out videos from his/her own or favorite youtube account
Sorting result by Relevance, Publish, View Count etc..
Pre-Filter listing by real “YouTube” Category like Animal, Comedy, Education etc.. you can get full list of categories on YouTube
Country Restriction
Restrict video uploaded within the specified time
Restrict title, description or keywords in a specific language like Arabic, Dutch, French etc..
Restricts the search to videos uploaded by a particular YouTube user.
Auto updated content from YouTube
Uses YouTube new GData API
Search engine built-in
Popular tag system and tagcloud
Unlimited keywords and categories
Targeted video content for your niche
Caching mechanism to minimize server load

Requirements:

SocialEngine v3
SocialEngine v2
This plugin is independent and does not require any other plugins in order to run.

Demo:

Video Feeder

Radcodes » youtube