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SEARCH VIDEOS USING YQL PROXY SERVER

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To use this page you don't have to install XAMPP web server on your PC. However if you've installed XAMMP, it's best to use it. You can do as the following: Firstly: Create the file "yql-proxy.html" inside your folder C:\xampp\htdocs\proxy\ Next: Choose Fire Fox as your default browser. Finally: simply click on the file name "yql-proxy.html" to watch it. It will be better if you correct "file:///C:/xampp/htdocs/" to "localhost/" then reload the page. The benefit of opening the pages in the XAMPP local server is that we can view more video clips. You can try my page "yql-proxy.html" at the address below: http://play-videos.url.ph/1609/proxy/yql-proxy-1.html The server http://query.yahooapis.com will give us the code wrapped inside <body> and </body> tags. After that we'll start writing our script: We can quickly switch from the "php-jquery-proxy" method to &qu
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PHP JQUERY PROXY DEMO

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Proxy script (or proxy program) is a script, wich is located between the user's browser and the "target server". Here I'would like to make a simple demo for PHP-Jquery-script proxy method. So far in my blog I just use YouTube API v.3 and JavaScript-jQuery to find videos. This time I try to use PHP language and jQuery to find videos. We often hear about "Web scraping with PHP," which can be roughly considered to include 9/10 PHP and 1/10 jQuery. Now I want to do it again but with 1/10 PHP and 9/10 jQuery. This page ("php-jquery-proxy.html") is for web scraping using mainly jquery-ajax in combination with only one function from PHP language (get_file_contents function). Using it I can get video ids, video titles from the source code of youtube pages and watch those videos continuously. To use this page you don't need to have Youtube API-3 key but need to download from Internet the XAMPP package
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