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...
Creating a video player using HTML5 is not too difficult. But it only plays some video formats such as MP4, OGG, WEBM. To watch more video formats, we must use the HTML5 video player plugin. I tried "Mediaelement.js" and found it great: in addition to the above mentioned formats, it can play YouTube, DaylyMotion, SoundCloud, Facebook, Vimeo, HLS, Dash, FLV and others. In the samples by "Mediaelement.js" I choose only two examples close to satisfy my needs. However in the sample for playlist, the player only plays mp4, mp3, ogg, webm and youtube. Meanwhile, the demo file can play a lot of formats but only play 1 video (when it is clicked) and stops. All the scripts are very short. Most just include only one function with multiple arguments to build the player. Nothing more. So I looked at the source code of the "mediaelement-js.com" page, where all js files are online and have more functions. However, it is very difficult for me...
I have rewritten this html file. You can download the zip-file from "mediafire.com" and test it: https://www.mediafire.com/?672vn6mgn94fwlx (1.82 MB) After downloading, extracting it you will have all the html and jpg files in one folder (index-csancopy). Move that directory so that it is a subfolder of the folder C:\xampp\htdocs\. To view, choose FireFox or Chrome as your default browser. Please run "index-my.html" using the following address: http://localhost/index-csancopy/index-me.html Or localhost/index-csancopy/index-me.html ========================================= So far I've used dynamic tables in my site to prepare the list of video as javascript files. But there was no notes about them. In this post we'll take a closer look on how to use dynamic table. Besides, I also present a simple manual method to collect the IDs of videos. It is nothing less than to copy the URL of the YouTube webpage (taken from the address text box or from ...