On Sun, May 31, 2009 at 4:53 AM, grand_unifier <jijodasgu...@gmail.com>wrote:
> > i have written a code to get all tweets that have urls in them in atom > or json format..... > > now i want a way to: > > 1>separate the urls from the tweets....like a tweetmeme way... > 2>find out if the url represents a video... > > how will i do that?? I don't think anyone can answer this in detail without knowing what language are you writing this code in. You should be able to use a regular expression to extract the URLs and then use the file extension to detect whether or not it is a direct link to a video file. But if it is a link to a page that contains a video, you'll have to fetch the page and examine its links. There are some URL patterns that you probably can assume point to pages that contain video, such as YouTube URLs. Nick
