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General Overview

The availability of video content on the Internet is increasing much thanks to the popularity of video sharing sites, video on demand and online television. Searching and discovering video content is becoming one of the biggest challenges on the Web. Truveo’s video search engine provides the most comprehensive results of any major search engine online, through a sophisticated video search engine that has a global index of over 300 million videos that are available on the Internet.

This index is continuously updated, cleaned and expanded to include the latest videos from the most popular video destinations on the Web. Truveo provides all its video search and browsing functionalities, along with its index through a variety of APIs. This allows third parties to develop applications that feature video search results. The rich functionality of these APIs enables you to build a wide variety of video-based web applications.

Truveo is the search engine that powers many of the Web's most popular video destinations. Truveo currently powers video search for AOL, Microsoft Corporation, Tiscali, CNET's Search.com, Brightcove, Qwest, Kosmix, CSTV, Infospace, Excite, and hundreds of other web sites worldwide.

Features

Screenshot of the Truveo Web SiteThe Video Search API allows you to:

  • Turn your website into the ultimate destination for online video by putting millions of videos at your users' fingertips. Our APIs make it easy for you to create search functionality that will let users find video located either in your own video library or on thousands of websites across the Internet.
  • Enhance your existing website with relevant video clips. Our APIs can be used to identify videos relevant to a particular topic. Links to these videos can be placed alongside other content on your website to build a more engaging experience.
  • Build an online community for sharing video. Our APIs provide a range of features that allow users to easily save and share favorite videos and watchlists. These personalization features provide a simple and powerful framework for building a thriving online video community.

The Truveo Video Search APIs come in four flavors: XML, AJAX, Flash, and Ruby. The XML API allows users to submit REST-style queries and receive XML-formatted results to standard HTTP GET requests. The AJAX API runs in the browser and lets client applications access video search results directly from JavaScript. The Flash API runs in Macromedia Flash and allows Flash applications to access video search results. The Ruby API is a mapping of the XML API for use in Ruby programs.

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Sample Code

Together with its partners, Truveo has built a variety of applications that have been developed using the Truveo Video Search APIs. All applications are available to the public here, where the full gallery of free applications can be viewed and downloaded.

 

More About Truveo

Enhance your web site with video search
The Truveo APIs are a great tool for adding video to your web site. These APIs give your users access to millions of videos and are available in a number of flavors:
  • The XML API delivers XML-formatted video search results.
  • The AJAX API lets any browser access video search results using JavaScript.
  • The Flash API lets Flash applications access video search results.
  • The Ruby API is a mapping to the Truveo APIs for Ruby.
Let users discover your video
Truveo operates one of the largest video search distribution networks, reaching over 40 million unique visitors every month. As a result, Truveo can put your video in front of millions of users across many of the most popular web destinations:
  • If your video is already on the web, you can submit a feed to our search engine by signing up for a Truveo Director Account.
  • If your video is not yet on the web, you can upload your video to AOL Video and it will become searchable across the Truveo video search network.
Build cool new video applications
The rich functionality of the Truveo video search service lets you build a variety of video applications like
  • an online community for sharing and discussing video,
  • a next-generation video browsing and searching portal, or
  • an online video guide personalized to your tastes.

See more examples in the Truveo video search application gallery.

Share your favorite videos with others
The personalization features of Truveo video search let you
  • keep track of all your favorite videos,
  • build watchlists to discover video you might like, and
  • get personalized suggestions for cool new video.

All of your video favorites can be shared on your homepage or blog using the helpful modules available in the application gallery.

 

Contact Truveo

For questions about Truveo’s APIs, you may contact Truveo at info@truveo.com

» Submitted by Developer Network on January 4, 2008 - 2:30pm.