Video categories for synched videos

[bedeho]

• When a new creator signs up with a channel, it should be possible for that API call to provide a default video category which will be used with all subsequent uploads for videos from that channel. Make sure the category provided actually exists, otherwise fail. The information about this will come from the app, which will have sufficient context to figure this out in some way, such as asking the user.
• This value should be possible to manually update later by an admin.

[mochet]

Not sure if it is known, but maybe the metadata from the video on YouTube could be utilized as the source of category information?

Metadata of YouTube videos does contain a numerical categoryId https://mattw.io/youtube-metadata/ The list of category IDs is available via the YouTube API (requires API key): https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/videoCategories/list

Additionally the metadata also includes topicCategories which looks like this:

    "topicCategories": [
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lifestyle_(sociology)",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Technology",
        "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vehicle"
    ]
}

and keywords that look like this:

"keywords": "education animated aviation wendover productions half as interesting"

and tags but I do not think many users still use this feature anymore

I believe this information is available via the API as well as being embedded within the page source of each video.

[bedeho]

Not sure if it is known, but maybe the metadata from the video on YouTube could be utilized as the source of category information?

the problem is that the categories on youtube do not have any automatic way of mapping to the categories found in a given atlas instance.

[dmtrjsg]

@dmtrjsg to create a separate issue to address it (rather than AC in this issue:

• https://github.com/Joystream/atlas/issues/3322)

[dmtrjsg]

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