Show HN: How I know what my neighbors uploaded on YouTube

[timothya]

Looks like this site is just a wrapper around the YouTube search API, which allows you to specify a location to retrieve results from.

From the documentation[0], "The location parameter, in conjunction with the locationRadius parameter, defines a circular geographic area and also restricts a search to videos that specify, in their metadata, a geographic location that falls within that area. The parameter value is a string that specifies latitude/longitude coordinates."

Looks like you can add a location to your video in the Advanced Settings panel in the video settings: http://i.imgur.com/AtnTu7F.png

As far as I can tell, location is not added by default (I tried uploading a video that has embedded location data and that location was not added to YouTube; I would have to add the location manually).

[0]: https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list

[RyJones]

how many products are "just a wrapper"? Why deride someone else's hack?

[elwell]

Yeah, it's one of the methods that we use to gather event videos automatically: http://wesawit.com/events

[thenewvu]

You're right. I'm trying to do something small first. I have many ideas by now, some big, they will come to life in the near future.

[smy1es]

I'm pretty impressed by this. It certainly shows a whole bunch of stuff happening near me that I had no idea about.

So, how many videos are typically geotagged on Youtube? Most of them, or just those uploaded from phones and tablets with GPS?

[krick]

Same thoughts here. Nothing really impressive in my case, but since I'm used to think that where I live is pretty boring place it's somewhat relieving to see that there's actually life happening around me.

I guess I should take a walk more often.

[thenewvu]

Thank you! Usually, travel videos are geotagged, you can search with keyword "street food", "restaurant", "trip", "travel". And that is the primary purpose of the site.

[aw3c2]

Please let me middle/right click on videos so I can open them in tabs.

[krick]

+1. Another nice (and I guess pretty simple) adjustment would be to show a circle on the map, to help user see, how much "5 km" (or whatever) exactly are.

[dredmorbius]

I'd far prefer some sort of interface to allow me to queue the motherfucking videos in the queue-capable viewer of my choice. VLC has some of these features, though its tendency to catch fire and halt (destroying the queue in the process) is annoying.

[icelancer]

Agreed. This is so frustrating. Stop trying to reinvent the UI with ridiculous restrictions like this.

[thenewvu]

thank you, I will improve it in the next version.

[m-i-l]

Smallest distance you can select seems to be 5km, and I live in central London, so that's a few million people "nearby".

[rrrrob]

Editing the URL to 1km works.

[waterlesscloud]

5km when you live in Hollywood brings up a LOT of videos. Heh.

[tommoor]

Yep, San Francisco is even worse as you'd expect - <1km option would be nice :)

[thenewvu]

thank you, I will add more options there.

[civild]

Someone living near my parents looks to have uploaded a hundred or so "chemtrail attack" videos. I honestly had no idea that people in the UK were into that sort of thing, but that's the internet I guess.

[A_COMPUTER]

All church services and used car sales near me, haha. So, is there any way to get the exact geotagging location, or is this obscured by Youtube?

[lukeadams]

Car dealership and "house for sale" videos for me out in the suburbs of North Texas ;)

[joeletizia]

North Jersey confirming same.

[hodwik]

Same, just outside Phila.

[thenewvu]

please search with some keyword, the internet you know.

[arihant]

I'm not sure what should surprise me more. The fact that I'm somehow living at epicentre of Zumba thumpquake or that I was completely unaware of so many women my age in my 1 km radius.

Jokes aside, the sad thing is that YouTube would most likely have locations set by IP. So I'm certain the distances are off. At best this thing can tell me videos from my city. Still a neat hack.

[PhasmaFelis]

This post is currently the only Google result for "Zumba thumpquake". No quotes, even. So I still don't know what the heck it is, but thanks for helping me achieve a Googlewhack. :D

[protomyth]

So the site asks if it can use my location and I click yes. Safari asks if it can use my location which I allow. I then hit the search button and am dumped into a map of Russia. Oh well. Tried on iPhone and it gives an address in the next town over, but the map shows the pointer in the correct town. What the heck?

[kruk]

It's fun! I didn't know YouTube had this functionality.

A few comments:

- It could use a couple of smaller radius settings though (1km and 100m). Nothing that Chrome Console can't fix but not everyone is a developer.

- The intro page is a bit confusing, at first glance it might seem like an Android application, "Google Play" button being most prominent.

- The search bar is a bit short, if you just type the number and street name it's likely you'll end up in a different country or state.

[thenewvu]

Thank you so much for the feedback. I come from a C++ dev, hope you know how hard to be good at Web UI :D. But trust me, it will be better in time.

[mahouse]

It does not work here, I have a desktop computer with no geolocation capabilities (no wifi), it just shows a white screen below the text.

[jnpatel]

It seems strange that it uses HTML5 Geolocation, but still drops me in Russia by default. Are others seeing the same behavior?

[drac]

Before I authorized the browser to send geolocation information, it dropped me in Russia. Maybe it's the default?

[Gracana]

I'm tethered to my phone and it showed up with my exact address, so no, it worked maybe a little too perfectly.

[thenewvu]

Thank you, that's a bug.

[joehaaga]

i built something similar for twitter. http://student.seas.gwu.edu/~jhaaga/YukOrYay/php/homepage.ph...

[thenewvu]

It's cool. Hope to see a better version in the future.

[christiangenco]

My wife noticed a typo:

> Specify keyword and radius to get a result near what your want.

s/your/you/

[thenewvu]

thank you so much, sorry for my bad English, I will fix it.

[mod]

Well done, this was pretty neat.

Nearly all real-estate walk-throughs, but found a couple of neat things after wading through those.

[thenewvu]

Thank you so much!

[robodale]

Yay - nothing but car dealership videos.

[stockkid]

Interesting that majority of vids are sales video (car, property, etc.) on many locations I tried.

[vonklaus]

I had this result as well. At first, I thought I was getting spammed but every result for the first few pages were real estate and car dealerships. As noted above, you may have to manually make the location available so that would self select gor these services.

[thenewvu]

please search with some keyword.

[SZJX]

lol "travel the world". Don't be so grandiose. The only way to actually explore and travel the world is to set your feet out and get around, learn the language and culture. This is such nonsensical branding.

[nsxwolf]

Pretty much nothing but used car ads for me.

[alpacaaa]

This is amazing.

[thenewvu]

Thank you so much for supporting me.