[Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS

[Pat Lockley (Pgogy)]

Get the JS to make a check for the API key, if API key not found, do 
iframe?

On 2015-07-13 09:03, Julian Tenney wrote:
> You could fix them by embedding the page. It's easy to construct the
> url to embed from the search parameters:
> 
> https://www.youtube.com/results?search_query=xerte
> 
> and then just make an iframe out of that.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Ron
> Mitchell
> Sent: 13 July 2015 13:58
> To: 'For Xerte technical developers'
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS
> 
> Wouldn't we need an api key for that? ;-)
> 
> Isn't the point that if we can we need to fix all the broken LO's
> currently using the feed page or at least any linked from a fixed
> installation.
> 
> I think enabling the feed page to work when exported is a slightly
> different concern although ideally that should work too.
> 
> Obviously an OER exported and imported into another Xerte install will
> use the key of that new install.
> An exported LO for offline use would need online access anyway.
> An LO exported for use via import into a vle seems like the most
> common export where this would currently be a problem.
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Julian 
> Tenney
> Sent: 13 July 2015 13:36
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS
> 
> Thinking differently, why don't we just embed the youtube search page
> and forget about the API calls?
> 
> 
> 
> -----Original Message-----
> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat 
> Lockley
> (Pgogy)
> Sent: 13 July 2015 13:28
> To: For Xerte technical developers
> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS
> 
> Exported is a sort of context neutral reuse, with an OER it is any use
> you feel like doing under the license.
> I may plausibly just want the youtube page and nothing else, and then
> to get other feeds as well.
> 
> If I have something which uses a key I basically take a punt on how
> much it will be used and how techie the reusers are.
> 
> The phoning home makes sense, would make setting up a server easier as
> well (what would stop someone creating a youtube page is the key
> wasn't set up?)
> 
> On 2015-07-13 08:17, Julian Tenney wrote:
>> Not sure what you mean?
>> 
>> The key is going to bind the content to an owner. I wouldn't let my
>> personal key get passed around, nor would I let any keys associated
>> with UoN. I'm not sure it's risky, but it just doesn't feel right as
>> the use of it is tracked and we would lose control over what it's
>> being used for.
>> 
>> All I can think is that the content reaches back to its mothership for
>> the key somehow: the youtube rss functionality will need internet
>> connectivity anyway, but it still makes me a bit uneasy.
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk
>> [mailto:xerte-dev-bounces at lists.nottingham.ac.uk] On Behalf Of Pat
>> Lockley (Pgogy)
>> Sent: 13 July 2015 13:08
>> To: For Xerte technical developers
>> Subject: [Xerte-dev] Re: Youtube RSS
>> 
>> On 2015-07-13 05:10, Julian Tenney wrote:
>>> OK. It's basically working though, if it wants tweaking a bit to line
>>> up with the existing code that's fine.
>>> 
>>> Do you think it would be acceptable if you had to add your own key to
>>> make an exported file work? I can't think of another way: we can't
>>> use a generic 'xerte project' key, and as an institution I would be
>>> uneasy with an exported piece taking my key with it: god knows where
>>> it might end up or what it might be used for.
>> 
>> What if it becomes an OER though?
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