from json import loads from urllib import urlencode categories = ['videos'] search_url = 'https://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos?alt=json&{query}' def request(query, params): params['url'] = search_url.format(query=urlencode({'q': query})) return params def response(resp): results = [] search_results = loads(resp.text) if not 'feed' in search_results: return results feed = search_results['feed'] for result in feed['entry']: url = [x['href'] for x in result['link'] if x['type'] == 'text/html'] if not len(url): return # remove tracking url = url[0].replace('feature=youtube_gdata', '') if url.endswith('&'): url = url[:-1] title = result['title']['$t'] content = '' thumbnail = '' if len(result['media$group']['media$thumbnail']): thumbnail = result['media$group']['media$thumbnail'][0]['url'] content += ''.format(url, thumbnail) if len(content): content += '
' + result['content']['$t'] else: content = result['content']['$t'] results.append({'url': url , 'title': title , 'content': content , 'template':'videos.html' , 'thumbnail':thumbnail}) return results