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steveseguin / social_stream

Consolidate your live social messaging streams and much more
http://socialstream.ninja/
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Display YouTube Comments (not live chat) #111

Closed maxwo007 closed 1 year ago

maxwo007 commented 1 year ago

Would it be possible to integrate YouTube comments under the videos (i.e. not the live chat)?

steveseguin commented 1 year ago

Possible, but it's not entirely clear to me how it would work

Do I show existing messages after a page refresh?

How do I handle replies? will I see them if not expanded, and if manually expanded to show replies, do I then load then? With what context?

What about users who don't want comments to show - do I hide this option behind a toggle?

Do you want to only load messages that you manually select; such as by me adding a button next to each comment? Does it go to the dock? or do you only want this for a featured chat overlay?

I've previously added twitter (non-live) support for example, so I've done it for other sites, but I'd need more context of what you are needing and what your expectations are before I can judge the request.

maxwo007 commented 1 year ago

Thanks for your time and effort you put into the project and this reply here.

The idea is not to show live comments, but to comment on existing comments under YouTube videos in the livestream. To do this, I encourage my viewers to write comments under my YouTube video, which I then respond to live in the stream some time later.

Comments should preferably be individually selectable. This way, users can decide for themselves which comments they want to respond to.

Replies to comments would then probably also be counted as a single comment. If you want to show the entire conversation in the stream, you simply go through answer by answer. This way you can also skip unwanted replies if necessary.

Now in my case I was looking for a tool to not have to take screenshots of comments to show them in the stream. At first sight I thought that social_stream would be my solution. Therefore, I had wondered with the abundance of supported platforms, why standard youtube comments are not there yet.

Thank you very much :-)

steveseguin commented 1 year ago

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Added. Press SS, then select the comment you wish to push to the dock in socialstream. You can have the dock auto-publish to the highlight page, if you dont want to re-select the messages there as well.

maxwo007 commented 1 year ago

Fantastic. thank you very much!