Youtube Api JSON arranges results incorrectly - json

Question

I'm using the Video Picker app (by LockeVN: https://github.com/lockevn/YouTube-video-picker), and the results i'm getting are not ordered like they are on the youtube website (or any other search app on github).
FOR EXAMPLE:
I type in : 'Bizarre Inc feat Angie Brown I'm Gonna Get You'.
The first video I get in youtube is: 'Bizarre Inc feat Angie Brown - I'm Gonna Get You (1992)'.
The first video I get in Video Picker app is:'BIZARRE INC - I'M GONNA GET YOU (SAVERY & MILLER MASHUP MIX)'
NOTE: Both are set to orderby=relevance and the video ordering changes when I change max-results; only when max-result is set to 1, the result is correctly ordered.
Anyone know how this can be fixed?
CODE:
(function ($) {
$.fn.YouTubePicker = function (options) {
// default option
var defaults = {
MaxResults: 10 /* number of YouTube results, per "page" */
, OrderBy: 'relevance' /* what to order the results by */
, Author: null /* Author of the video */
, PlayerNumberOp: 1
, ShowNumOfViews: true /* show number of views for the video */
, Thumbnail: 'small' /* small: 120x90 | large: 480 x 360 */
, ControlIdSuffix: '' /* should give the unique string here if you have multiply of YouTubePicker.
Using elements in this plugin will fetch by "id + ControlIdSuffix" */
, ControlQueryHolder: '.YouTubePickerQuery' /* selector to take a element to be query holder (where we take string to query YouTube) */
, ControlSearchButton: '.YouTubePickerSearch' /* selector to take a element to be SearchButton. Click this element to start search. */
, ControlVideoPlayerHolder: '.YouTubePickerVideoPlayer' /* selector to take a element to render VideoPlayer */
, ControlVideoTitleHolder: '.YouTubePickerVideoTitle'
, ControlVideoList: '.YouTubePickerVideoList' /* selector to take a element to render VideoList */
, ControlSelectedUrlHolder: '.YouTubePickerSelectedUrl' /* When user click to select a video, assign the video's url to this input */
, InitVideoUrl: '' /* Init if no search query existed, you can put YouTubeVideoId here or the full Url */
, PlayerWidth: '240' /* setting for player */
, PlayerHeight: '220' /* setting for player */
, AutoPlay: false /* AutoPlay video right after user click an item in the list */
, ShowRelated: false /* show relate video after finish playing */
, AllowFullScreen: true /* enable FullScreen button of Player */
, EnableJsApi: true /* enable Javascript Api*/
};
options = $.extend(defaults, options);
return this.each(function () {
var $container = $(this);
$(options.ControlSearchButton).click(function () {
/// <summary>
/// handler click on search button
/// </summary>
var requestUrl = 'http://gdata.YouTube.com/feeds/api/videos?alt=json&max-results=' + options.MaxResults;
try {
_RequestYouTubeVideos(requestUrl);
} catch (ex) { }
return false;
});
$(options.ControlQueryHolder).keydown(function (event) {
/// <summary>
/// handler press Enter in query textbox
/// </summary>
if ((event.which && event.which == 13) || (event.keyCode && event.keyCode == 13)) {
$(options.ControlSearchButton).trigger('click');
return false;
}
else {
return true;
}
});
//-------------------------------------------------------//
// take the init video and play it if any
// ERASED THIS PART
// $(options.ControlVideoPlayerHolder + "").html(_GetPlayerHtml(_GetYouTubeIdFromUrl(options.InitVideoUrl)));
// _AssignValueToDivOrTextBox(options.ControlSelectedUrlHolder, options.InitVideoUrl);
$('a.navigation').click(function () {
/// <summary>
/// rebind the list whenever user click to change page
/// </summary>
try {
_RequestYouTubeVideos($(this).attr('href'));
} catch (ex) { }
return false;
});
/**
* Util function, assign value to element. Element can be div, span, or input
*/
function _AssignValueToDivOrTextBox(selectorToElement, valueToAssign) {
try {
$(selectorToElement).val(valueToAssign);
} catch (ex) { }
try {
$(selectorToElement).text(valueToAssign);
} catch (ex) { }
}
function _RequestYouTubeVideos(requestUrl) {
/// <summary>
/// fire the jsonp request to get data from YouTube Search API
/// </summary>
var query = $(options.ControlQueryHolder).val();
if (options.Author != null) {
requestUrl += '&author=' + options.Author;
}
if (options.OrderBy != null) {
requestUrl += '&orderby=' + options.OrderBy;
}
if (query != null) {
requestUrl += '&q=' + query;
}
$.ajax({
type: "GET",
url: requestUrl,
cache: false,
dataType: 'jsonp',
global: false,
success: _OnYouTubeSuccess,
error: function (result) {
$(options.ControlVideoList).html('<p>Please fill in a search term</p>');
}
,
ajaxComplete: function (data) {
return false;
}
});
}
function _BuildNavigation(feed) {
/// <summary>
/// Build the navigation link Prev and Next base on the return url in the feed (if existed)
/// </summary>
if (feed.link) {
var nextLink = null;
var prevLink = null;
for (var i = 0; i < feed.link.length; i++) {
var link = feed.link[i];
if (link.rel == 'next') {
nextLink = link.href;
}
else if (link.rel == 'previous') {
prevLink = link.href;
}
}
if (nextLink) {
$('.navigation.next').attr('href', nextLink).show();
}
else {
$('.navigation.next').hide();
}
if (prevLink) {
$('.navigation.prev').attr('href', prevLink).show();
}
else {
$('.navigation.prev').hide();
}
}
}
function formatSecondsAsTime(secs) {
var hr = Math.floor(secs / 3600);
var min = Math.floor((secs - (hr * 3600)) / 60);
var sec = Math.floor(secs - (hr * 3600) - (min * 60));
if (hr < 10) {
hr = "0" + hr;
}
if (min < 10) {
min = "0" + min;
}
if (sec < 10) {
sec = "0" + sec;
}
if (hr) {
hr = "00";
}
return hr + ':' + min + ':' + sec;
}
function _ParseYouTubeFeedItem(feedData) {
/// <summary>
/// Extract what we want from YouTube feedData
/// </summary>
var dto = [];
dto.id = _StripFeature(feedData.link[0].href.substring(feedData.link[0].href.indexOf('=') + 1, feedData.link[0].href.length));
dto.url = feedData.link[0].href;
dto.title = feedData.title.$t;
if (options.Thumbnail == 'large') {
var index = 0; // first thumb is large size
} else {
var index = feedData.media$group.media$thumbnail.length - 1; // take the last small thumb
}
dto.thumbnail = feedData.media$group.media$thumbnail[index].url;
dto.description = feedData.media$group.media$description.$t;
dto.author = feedData.author[0].name.$t;
dto.duration = formatSecondsAsTime(feedData.media$group.media$content[0].duration);
if (feedData.yt$statistics) {
dto.views = feedData.yt$statistics.viewCount;
}
else if (!feedData.yt$statistics) {
dto.views = '0';
}
return dto;
}
/**
* Process the json result, render the list
*/
function _OnYouTubeSuccess(result) {
var feed = result.feed;
var rfeed = feed.entry || [];
var relVideos = [];
var $ctrVideoList = $(options.ControlVideoList);
// build the navigation
_BuildNavigation(feed);
if (rfeed.length > 0) {
$(rfeed).each(function (i) {
/// <summary>
/// from feeditem from YouTube, build the video data object
/// </summary>
relVideos[i] = _ParseYouTubeFeedItem(rfeed[i]);
}).ready(function () {
relVideos.sort(_ArraySort);
var $itemsHtml = $('<div>'); // temporary DOM node to append VideoItem to
$(relVideos).each(function (i) {
/// <summary>
/// Create each list item
/// </summary>
$itemsHtml.append('<li class="VideoItem">');
videoItem = $itemsHtml.find('.VideoItem:last');
videoItem.append('<div class="VideoThumb">');
videoThumb = videoItem.find('.VideoThumb');
$('<a>').addClass('YouTubelink').attr('href', relVideos[i].url).append('<img src="' + relVideos[i].thumbnail + '">').appendTo(videoThumb);
videoItem.append('<div class="VideoInfo">');
videoInfo = videoItem.find('.VideoInfo');
videoInfo.append('<strong>' + relVideos[i].title + ' </strong><br /><span class="VideoNumOfViews">' + relVideos[i].views + ' views</span><br /><span></span>' + relVideos[i].duration + '<br />');
});
// clear the list
$ctrVideoList.empty().append($itemsHtml.children());
});
// load inital video after finish rendering the list
// take the first video in the list, take it link, take it href, assign to the Player
// ERASED THIS PART
//var firstVid = $ctrVideoList.children("li:first-child").addClass("selected").find("a").eq(1).attr("href");
//$(options.ControlVideoPlayerHolder + "").html(_GetPlayerHtml(_GetYouTubeIdFromUrl(firstVid)));
$ctrVideoList.find("li a").unbind('click').bind('click', function () {
/// <summary>
/// load video on click of a in li
/// </summary>
try {
var selectedUrl = $(this).attr("href");
// return the selectedUrl to outside (try catch to avoid error in IE)
_AssignValueToDivOrTextBox(options.ControlSelectedUrlHolder, selectedUrl);
$(options.ControlVideoPlayerHolder + "").html(_GetPlayerHtml(_GetYouTubeIdFromUrl(selectedUrl)));
// DIT IS EEN TEST
$(options.ControlVideoTitleHolder + "").html(_GetTitleHtml(_GetYouTubeIdFromUrl(selectedUrl)));
$(this).parent().parent().parent("ul").find("li.selected").removeClass("selected");
$(this).parent().parent("li").addClass("selected");
} catch (ex) { }
return false;
});
} else {
/* if we have no YouTube videos returned, let's tell user */
$ctrVideoList.html('<p>There is no result</p>');
}
} // end _OnYouTubeSuccess
function _ArraySort(a, b) {
if (a.title < b.title) {
return -1;
}
else if (a.title > b.title) {
return 1;
}
else {
return 0;
}
}
function _StripFeature(vidID) {
var featureLoc = vidID.indexOf('&feature=YouTube_gdata');
if (featureLoc >= 0) {
return vidID.substring(0, featureLoc);
} else {
return vidID;
}
}
/**
* Create a Player HTML code to play an YouTubeID, and return it HTML string
*/
function _GetPlayerHtml(YouTubeVideoId) {
// if YouTubeVideoId is null or empty, we provide an empty div with same dimension of the Player
// This will fix a bug of IE (IE will load the swf forever if object movie is empty and/or embbed src is empty
if (!YouTubeVideoId) {
return '<div style="width:240px;height:220px">';
}
var html = '';
var PlayerNumber = options.PlayerNumberOp;
html += '<object height="220" width="240">';
html += '<param name="movie" value="http://www.YouTube.com/v/'+YouTubeVideoId+'?enablejsapi=1&rel=0&showinfo=2&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1"> </param>';
html += '<param name="wmode" value="transparent"> </param>';
// I HAVE CHANGED THIS
html += '<iframe onload="floaded'+PlayerNumber+'()" id="player'+PlayerNumber+'" width="240" height="220" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/'+YouTubeVideoId+'?enablejsapi=1&rel=0&showinfo=2&iv_load_policy=3&modestbranding=1" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen> </iframe>';
html += '</object>';
return html;
};
function _GetTitleHtml(YouTubeVideoId) {
var html = '';
var PlayerNumber = options.PlayerNumberOp;
$.getJSON('http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/'+YouTubeVideoId+'?v=2&alt=jsonc',function(data,status,xhr){
var video_title1=data.data.title;
var finaltext1="<div id='title1'><h5 class='redtext'>USER SELECTED</h5><h5>"+video_title1+"</h5></div>";
$('#YouTubePickerVideoTitle'+PlayerNumber+'').html(finaltext1);
});
return html;
};
function _GetYouTubeIdFromUrl(url) {
/// <summary>
/// use RegEx too grab a YouTube id from a (clean, no querystring) url (thanks to http://jquery-howto.blogspot.com/2009/05/jYouTube-jquery-YouTube-thumbnail.html)
/// <return>empty string if cannot match.</return>
/// </summary>
if (url && url != '') {
try {
var ytid = url.match("[\\?&]v=([^&#]*)");
ytid = ytid[1];
return ytid;
}
catch (ex) { }
}
return '';
};
});
};
})(jQuery);

Answer 1

Deniz.
I'm not sure but guess Youtube uses your preferences to filter video searches.
Try other kind of filter and see what you get.