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Ken April 11th, 2008

History

FeedTube began being developed when I noticed there wasn’t a very easy way for me to link/embed all of my YouTube videos. I began investigating some options, but most said you need to use the YouTube Developer API. I then noticed there was an RSS feed for my username and started looking around for ways to parse this XML feed easily. I saw you could do it using the PEAR module, but some servers don’t have that installed. I n then saw there were some great new XML functions in PHP 5, but again, not all servers are running PHP 5. So, I educated myself on using XML in PHP 4 and started getting a working plugin going. The result is FeedTube. It can take any RSS feed from YouTube and embed/link to the videos contained.

Installation

Just download the newest version of FeedTube from http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/feedtube/, unzip the file and upload it to your /wp-content/plugins/ directory. Activate it in your plugin settings in Wordpress and you’re off and running.

Using FeedTube

FeedTube is currently only being developed for Wordpress 2.5+, as it uses the new ShortCode API. To embed/display an RSS feed you only need to enter the [feedtube] token with a couple of parameters. These are (default in bold ):

• feed - any rss feed from YouTube (ex:http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/username/videos.rss)
• limit - 20 (20 is the maximum # of videos)
• style - player or noplayer (embed the first video in the feed)
• showtitle - y or n (show video title?)
• showdate - y or n (show date added to YouTube?)
• showuser - y or n (show user byline?)

A sample token may look like this:
[feedtube feed=’http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/youtube/videos.rss’ limit=’5′ style=’noplayer’ showuser=’n']
And would be displayed like this:

A default token of:
[feedtube feed=’http://www.youtube.com/rss/user/youtube/videos.rss’]
Would be displayed like this:

Help

Questions, comments, bug reports and feature requests can be left here. I’ll do my best to get to them in a timely manner. Specific posts on FeedTube will be located here. Leave any questions here and I’ll try to get to them when I can. The widget is still in development. Thanks!

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