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Google Videos on boxee

the Google Videos app lets you search Google Videos (including sorting by quality, duration, view count, etc.) and is a good addition to video search offered by YouTube.

it is the second app developed by Walter Moore (first was Bass Edge).

Walter Moore in his own words:

Google Videos is my attempt to bring a better video search experience to
Boxee.  When I can’t find a video of something, Google Videos usually can.

On the technical side this application is fairly simple.  The content
displayed in the application is fed by RSS, both the ‘Hot videos’ section
and the search results.  To create the search portion I played around with a
few advanced searches in my browser while keeping track of the request
parameters in Firebug.  Once I had the URL and the params I was able to
begin coding.  I used several other apps for examples, mainly the Songza app
and the Joost app.  I would love to hear any feedback or suggestions about
this app from the Boxee community – http://www.twitter.com/waltermoore

June 15, 2009 at 10:06 am

One Response to “Google Videos on boxee”

  1. J. Féli says:

    Wow! That's awsome! I'm excited about access the whole google videos throught my boxee powered htpc!