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December 4, 2011 12:32
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My take on retrieving YouTube JSON feed by CommonJS module for Ti Mobile, remains work in progress.
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// To call, use this statement in app.js: | |
// require('fetchYouTubeJSON').fetchJSONData('https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/...'); | |
// fires app-level event to return data, use to populate TableView or similar | |
// | |
// maybe add some cache features? http://pastie.org/1541768 | |
// http://pastebin.com/Eq1DLsdP | |
// once again, ripping from the talented @skypanther | |
exports.fetchYouTubeData = function(url) { | |
// Pulls the JSON feed data and returns it to caller | |
var xhr = Titanium.Network.createHTTPClient(); | |
// default JSON feed url | |
url = (url) ? url : "https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/users/NATOACT/uploads?alt=json&v=2&max-results=10"; | |
xhr.open('GET',url); | |
xhr.setRequestHeader('User-Agent', 'mobile agent') | |
xhr.send(); | |
xhr.onload = function() { | |
// Data is returned as JSON, start parsing | |
Ti.API.info('Got data!'); | |
var jsonObject = JSON.parse(this.responseText); | |
Ti.API.info('length: '+jsonObject.feed.entry.length); | |
var data = []; | |
// begin looping through videos | |
for (var i = 0; i < jsonObject.feed.entry.length; i++) { | |
var idArray = jsonObject.feed.entry[i].id.$t.split('video:'); | |
var movieId = idArray[1]; | |
data.push({ | |
videoTitle: jsonObject.feed.entry[i].title.$t, //video title | |
videoLink: "http://www.youtube.com/embed/" + movieId+ "?av=1&autoplay=1", | |
}); | |
} | |
/* | |
for (var i = 0; i<data.length; i++) { | |
Ti.API.info(data[i].postTitle); | |
} */ | |
// fire an app-level event to notify the UI that the JSON data is available | |
Ti.App.fireEvent('net:youTubeDataReturned',{ | |
feedTitle: jsonObject.feed.title.$t, | |
dateUpdated: jsonObject.feed.updated.$t, | |
blogPosts: data | |
}); | |
}; | |
xhr.onerror = function(e) { | |
// should do something more robust | |
Titanium.API.info(e.error); | |
}; | |
}; // end getJSONData() |
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