October 04, 2007
UC Berkeley Lectures on Youtube, via Grazr
TechCrunch reported today that UC Berkeley have been putting a wide selection of their lectures up on YouTube: UC Berkeley Puts Courses On YouTube, though AJ isn't much impressed...
I was intrigued as to whether it's possible to search videos by user on YouTube and get the result via a feed using the YouTube/GData API, and it's easy... For example: http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/videos?q=skeletal+biology&author=ucberkeley.
Using a simple bit of GrazrScript, it doesn't take much to build a little search widget around this feed, that you could then embed in your own page.
To make things a little more interesting, though, I also added a feed embellishment via a Yahoo Pipe that adds the movie as an enclosure to the feed so that it can be played directly within the Grazr widget (scroll down on the result in the widget... the embedded player may look a little broken at first, but it works fine if you click on it).
So here it is: UCB Video search via Grazr
I maybe need to look around YouTube to see if there are any more universities putting their content up there.
If you know of any, feel free to add them in a comment.
PS add the UC Berkeley lecture search tool to Facebook with this UCB Video Lecture Search Facebook App