I published the first public alpha! Download it here!
Now it is time for me to get drunk and work on implementing the missing features. Also wait for bugs to rear their head.
I published the first public alpha! Download it here!
Now it is time for me to get drunk and work on implementing the missing features. Also wait for bugs to rear their head.
I’m used to the fact that “Big established Internet Company” does not automatically mean their APIs are any good.
HOWEVER for “Big established Internet and Software Company” – read YouTube/Google this is still rather unpleasantly surprising. Now YouTube is a MASSIVE media platform that gets millions of videos uploaded every day and you would assume that there is a plethora of tools to help you do that. You’d be wrong. Seriously, there is a handful – at best – tools out there that upload YouTube Videos that are actually useful.
Intrigued and disappointed by the lack of tools I set out to create my own and on that journey I suddenly understood why only a selected few made it that far. It is not that no one else took the journey, it’s just that they never got anywhere. Because not only is the way hard and rocky but the backpack Google gives you weighs a metric ton and the included map seems to be for a different planet.
Follow me and I’ll lay bare the snake pit that is YouTubes API and Googles API Client.
Well that is it. Maybe YouTube will fix it’s API at some point.
The development is moving along quite nicely and YouPloader has become quite useable over the last days.
In the spirit of Open Source I’ll follow the release early, release often paradigm and as such the alpha should be ready as soon as I put some work into the Template system.
I am currently setting stuff up. Sorry for the mess 🙂