Originally published at: https://boingboing.net/2018/04/13/tube-minimalist-youtube-searc.html
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Apparently not functional on an iOS device.
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no recommendations, no nonsense
And no results, for me.
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Neither on Firefox Android as well it seems
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Or on desktop Chrome. I think it’s just dead.
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Lamest April Fools joke ever.
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It “works” for me but always returns the same list of movies, which are un-related to my search. Amazing.
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Sorry about that.
I am seeing the same thing, I think. Is an Avengers trailer at the top? I think something is up with my API key, looking into it.
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Hmm. What browser? I am not seeing the same on my device.
What browser + OS? I was doing a bit of work on it so you may have caught in-between, sorry about that.
(Also, I apologize if I am using BB wrong. I’ve never used it before but spotted you all in my analytics. :))
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strike one: no support for Firefox search bar. Youtube supports search from the browser and that’s the only way I search YT, but I want to get the minimal embed, so let’s just try it out and I can make a bookmark or something.
strike two: I type in chuck berry and this is what was returned:
A search for richard feynman yields the same exact thing. Not ready for prime time, folks.
Edit: @madeline, if you can get the search working and esp. if you can add the FF search support I will completely abandon YT forever. This is an idea whose time has come.
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Just look at the tube.
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Safari, iOS 11.3
However, it appears to be working now.
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I searched for “Stink Banana” and it came back with “Official Marvel Avengers Trailer”
I searched for “pig” and it came back with exactly the same result.
#NailedIt
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You don’t suppose we’ve been rickrolled, do you?
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at least a rickroll would’ve been funny
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@madeline there are a number of styling fixes that would make this much nicer once you sort out the API issues, like removing padding/margins from the html/body tags, and I think it should be possible to make the video actually fit the screen by simplifying the .embed-container styles, though I haven’t tried portrait screens. You’d probably quickly hit API limits anyway if this took off, but it’s an interesting experiment if nothing else.
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Fixed search. It was a weird issue.
Make sure to refresh your cache if you don’t immediately see the fix.
I’ll look into the FF search support, sounds interesting
Yeah, I can take a look at the /watch page next. I actually copied that code directly from someone else, so I haven’t really taken an in-depth look at it.
(I am not super worried about hitting the API limit yet. I can handle about ~300,000 queries / day before Google I hit the cap, if I calculated right. :))
