Videopian : get everything about a video

1. Introduction

1.1 Requirements

• PHP >= 5.2
• allow_url_fopen = TRUE

1.2 Supported services

• Blip
• Dailymotion
• Flickr (API key required)
• Google Video
• Metacafe
• MySpace
• Veoh (API key required)
• Vimeo
• YouTube

1.3 Available information by service

		Blip	Dailymotion	Flickr	Google Video	Metacafe	MySpace	Veoh	Vimeo	YouTube
Site identifier	string	blip	dailymotion	flickr	googlevideo	metacafe	myspace	veoh	vimeo	youtube
URL	string	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Title	string	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Description	string	•	•	•	×	•	×	•	•	•
Tags	array	•	•	•	×	•	×	•	•	•
Duration	int	•	•	?	•	×	×	•	•	•
Author login	string	•	•	•	×	•	–	•	•	•
Author profile URL	string	•	•	•	×	•	–	•	•	•
Publication date	DateTime	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Last update date	DateTime	×	×	•	×	×	×	×	×	•
Thumbnails	array	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Flash player URL	string	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Files URL	array	flv, mov	flv	mp4	avi, flv, mp4	×	flv	flv	–	–
XML data URL	string	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•	•
Caption • Available × Unavailable ? Unknown – To be implemented

When a data is unavailable, the property is NULL or an empty array.

Details on formats

• Publication and update dates : DateTime objects
• Duration : seconds
• Thumbnails : array of objects with 3 properties : url, width and height, ordered by size, in ascending order.
• Files URL : associative array mime-type => url

MIME types of the video formats

• AVI : video/x-msvideo
• FLV : video/x-flv
• MOV : video/quicktime
• MP4 : video/mp4

2. Example of use

With

$Videopian = new Videopian();
$video = $Videopian->get('http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2bein_vwater_ads');

or

$video = Videopian::get('http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2bein_vwater_ads');

$video contains :

object(stdClass)#1 (14) {
  ["url"]=>
  string(50) "http://www.dailymotion.com/video/x2bein_vwater_ads"
  ["site"]=>
  string(11) "dailymotion"
  ["xml_url"]=>
  string(43) "http://www.dailymotion.com/rss/video/x2bein"
  ["title"]=>
  string(7) "V_WATER"
  ["description"]=>
  string(0) ""
  ["tags"]=>
  array(10) {
    [0]=>
    string(6) "london"
    [1]=>
    string(9) "animation"
    [2]=>
    string(6) "vwater"
    [3]=>
    string(5) "water"
    [4]=>
    string(4) "kick"
    [5]=>
    string(4) "glow"
    [6]=>
    string(6) "shield"
    [7]=>
    string(9) "de-stress"
    [8]=>
    string(6) "stress"
    [9]=>
    string(7) "vitamin"
  }
  ["duration"]=>
  int(79)
  ["author"]=>
  string(9) "tudoempaz"
  ["author_url"]=>
  string(36) "http://www.dailymotion.com/tudoempaz"
  ["date_published"]=>
  object(DateTime)#11 (0) {
  }
  ["date_updated"]=>
  NULL
  ["thumbnails"]=>
  array(1) {
    [0]=>
    object(stdClass)#12 (3) {
      ["url"]=>
      string(57) "http://www.dailymotion.com/thumbnail/320x240/video/x2bein"
      ["width"]=>
      int(320)
      ["height"]=>
      int(240)
    }
  }
  ["player_url"]=>
  string(37) "http://www.dailymotion.com/swf/x2bein"
  ["files"]=>
  array(1) {
    ["video/x-flv"]=>
    string(101) "http://www.dailymotion.com/cdn/FLV-80x60/video/x2bein?key=d4dddf3023e601f760a90fe253ad761213d7df6.flv"
  }
}

3. Demo

Please enter an video URL below to test Videopian :

4. Download

Source v0.1.1 – 29KB
Zip version v0.1.1 – 5KB

5. Roadmap

• additionnal data support : video dimensions, more video files URLs
• additionnal services support : Imeem, Revver, Sevenload, Viddler
• experimental mode which parses the HTML to get the information not available through the API

6. Changelog

v0.1.1 (17.07.2009) : fixing a bug for Dailymotion videos when using the get static method

v0.1 (16.07.2009) : first stable version