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Viddy item discovery is being done through the [[URLTeam]] project, scraping the viddy.it shortener. If you want to take part, join that project, see details on its page. (You'll get tasks of other shorteners as well, they are distributed randomly. You should start multiple threads.) | Viddy item discovery is being done through the [[URLTeam]] project, scraping the viddy.it shortener. If you want to take part, join that project, see details on its page. (You'll get tasks of other shorteners as well, they are distributed randomly. You should start multiple threads.) | ||
==== API Scraping ==== | |||
Through scraping the [http://viddy.com/v1 public API], computerfreak compiled a list of ~8.3 million user IDs and ~1.05 million media IDs. The user IDs are available here: [http://archiveteam.nickproductions.com/viddy/viddy_user_ids.csv.gz viddy_user_ids.csv.gz], and the media data (UserID, MediaID, comment_count, like_count, view_count) here: [http://archiveteam.nickproductions.com/viddy/viddy_medias.csv.gz viddy_medias.csv.gz]. The user IDs were obtained by doing a BFS on user's followers (script stopped after about 2 days of running), and the medias were then obtained by getting the media listings for each user. Obviously this is not every single user or every single video, but it is certainly a good starting point. | |||
== Download Your Data == | == Download Your Data == |
Revision as of 04:08, 28 November 2014
Viddy | |
URL | http://www.viddy.com |
Status | Closing |
Archiving status | Not saved yet |
Archiving type | Unknown |
Project source | viddy-grab, viddy-items |
Project tracker | viddy |
IRC channel | #viddiot (on hackint) |
Viddy is a video hosting service like Instagram. The service has its own url shortener service viddy.it, just to make sure the impact of the closure is even worse.
Viddy announced to be shutting down December 15th 2014 after joining Fullscreen.
Shutdown
Message on viddy.com website:
- "Viddy is powering down, but you’ll hear from us again soon…
- We’ve been building something new and exciting since joining Fullscreen in January, and as we focus on the future, Viddy will be pulled from the App Store on Tuesday, November 4th, 2014, and will officially shut down Monday, December 15th, 2014."
Site Structure
- www.viddy.com/JustinBieber/v/soundcheck-LDS3p9
- www.viddy.com/media/af2745dd-d085-4b3a-9017-085f72f6334a
- www.viddy.it/Syv46W
How can I help?
Content discovery
Viddy item discovery is being done through the URLTeam project, scraping the viddy.it shortener. If you want to take part, join that project, see details on its page. (You'll get tasks of other shorteners as well, they are distributed randomly. You should start multiple threads.)
API Scraping
Through scraping the public API, computerfreak compiled a list of ~8.3 million user IDs and ~1.05 million media IDs. The user IDs are available here: viddy_user_ids.csv.gz, and the media data (UserID, MediaID, comment_count, like_count, view_count) here: viddy_medias.csv.gz. The user IDs were obtained by doing a BFS on user's followers (script stopped after about 2 days of running), and the medias were then obtained by getting the media listings for each user. Obviously this is not every single user or every single video, but it is certainly a good starting point.
Download Your Data
- "We’ve made it easy for you to download your content before this date [December 15th 2014]! Please click the button [...] and log in with your username / password to get started."[1]
The link: http://www.viddy.com/download