Viddler link video

gistfile1.js

/* This is a poorly designed, hardcoded, workaround hack... and will easily break */
CmdUtils.CreateCommand({
  name: "watch viddler from",
  author: { name: "Kris Walker", email: "[email protected]"},
  license: "GPL",
  description: "Opens a browser tab, starting a Viddler video from the selected time stamp in the new tab.",
  help: "Out of all the web pages on the planet, this command works for 10 of them."
    +" But, if you dare, select a time code on the page, or enter one here on the command line.",
  takes: {"time stamp": noun_arb_text},
  preview: function( pblock, input ) {
    pblock.innerHTML = "Out of all the web pages on the planet, this command works for 10 of them."
    +" But, if you dare, (and this page contains the correctly embedded video) "
    +"select a time code on the page, or enter one here on the command line.";
  },

  /**
   * TODO: Hack me!
   * This is a basic lookup table.
   *
   * Lookup the wiki.mozilla.org/labs URL and you get the corresponding viddler.com URL.
   * == The wiki page is where the user is located,
   * == The viddler page is where the tagged video is located.
   *
   * Just manually stick another key/value pair in here to
   * register a new video page on the wiki.
   */
  _URLDictionary: {

    "https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Usability/Usability_Testing/Fall_08_1.2_Tests/Tester_11":
      "http://www.viddler.com/explore/indolering/videos/4/",

    "https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Usability/Usability_Testing/Fall_08_1.2_Tests/Tester_09":
      "http://www.viddler.com/explore/indolering/videos/15/",

    "https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Usability/Usability_Testing/Fall_08_1.2_Tests/Tester_08":
      "http://www.viddler.com/explore/indolering/videos/8/",

    "https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Usability/Usability_Testing/Fall_08_1.2_Tests/Tester_07":
      "http://www.viddler.com/explore/indolering/videos/17/",

    "https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Usability/Usability_Testing/Fall_08_1.2_Tests/Tester_06":
      "http://www.viddler.com/explore/indolering/videos/10/",

    "https://wiki.mozilla.org/Labs/Ubiquity/Usability/Usability_Testing/Fall_08_1.2_Tests/Tester_05":
      "http://www.viddler.com/explore/indolering/videos/18/"
  },

  /**
   * Make a string into a timestamp (number of seconds)
   */
  _validateTimeStamp: function(aTimeStamp) {
    CmdUtils.log(aTimeStamp);
    // cover the basics first
    if(typeof(aTimeStamp) != "string" || aTimeStamp.length < 1) {
      displayMessage("Ubiquity needs you to select, or enter a timestamp to make this work.");
      return false;
    }

    // split the string by the ":"
    var s = aTimeStamp.split(":");

    // if we get more that two parts, or less than 1, we return false
    if(s.length != 2) {
      displayMessage(aTimeStamp +" must have one ':' in it to work.");
      return false;
    }

    // remove non numeric chars from each part of the string
    // and set these strings as integers so javascript can do some math
    var s1 = parseInt(s[0].replace(/\D/g, ""));
    var s2 = parseInt(s[1].replace(/\D/g, ""));

    // if we have nothing left, return false
    if(s[0].length < 1 || s[1].length < 1) {
      displayMessage(aTimeStamp +" needs to have some numbers in it to work.");
      return false;
    }

    // multiply the first half by sixty
    s1 = s1 * 60;
    // add it to the second half
    var r = s1 + s2;

    // poof.. the number is a string again
    return r.toString();
  },

  execute: function(input) {
    // this just get the current document URL -- using a little magic
    var url = CmdUtils.getDocument().documentURI;

    // lookup our current URL in our manually created dictionary
    var newURL = this._URLDictionary[url];
    if(typeof(newURL) == "undefined") {
      displayMessage("This page is not recognized as holding a viddler video: "
          +"Hack this command to make it work!");
      return true;
    }

    // what did the user select... mmmm..  we hope it was a video timecode
    var timestamp = CmdUtils.getSelection();

    // We clean up the input for backward compatibility issues regarding
    // command names that did not accept spaces in them -- 2009.01.06
    var inp = input.text.replace(/viddler from/, "");

    // if our user did not select a timestamp... maybe they entered one in?
    // so, a user entered timstamp will override a selection
    if(inp.length > 1)
      timestamp = input.text;

    // before we move on...
    timestamp = this._validateTimeStamp(timestamp);
    if(!timestamp)
      return true;

    // append the timestamp in seconds to the end of the viddler URL
    newURL += timestamp +"/";

    // load, or focus, the new URL
    Utils.focusUrlInBrowser(newURL);
    return true;
  }
});