Grab the Video thumbnail from RSS?
Superhive3
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May I have your advice? We are considering skinning SmugMug videos in Flash. From the feed below we are requesting Title, MP4 media, and Video Thumbnail
Now Title and Guid are pretty straightforward to grab. But the IMG is buried in this description node, which I'm having some trouble getting at.
I am wondering, is this something I want to use the API for? So far I have been following the theory (posted in API notes) that "Often, if you just want to read data and not write it, it's often easier to just grab and parse one of our feeds." I buy that!
I browsed the API docuementation and did not find an API call for 'video thumbnail' I'm hoping that there might be a different way to associate the thumbnail with the video that would allow me to simply parse the feed.
Now Title and Guid are pretty straightforward to grab. But the IMG is buried in this description node, which I'm having some trouble getting at.
<description><p><a href="http://superhive.smugmug.com">superhive</a><br />INDY 500</p><p><a href="http://superhive.smugmug.com/Other/mantradesign/9733284_4AABX#658919975_aXQGu" title="INDY 500"><img src="http://superhive.smugmug.com/photos/658919975_aXQGu-Th-2.jpg" width="150" height="76" alt="INDY 500" title="INDY 500" style="border: 1px solid #000000;" /></a></p></description>
I am wondering, is this something I want to use the API for? So far I have been following the theory (posted in API notes) that "Often, if you just want to read data and not write it, it's often easier to just grab and parse one of our feeds." I buy that!
I browsed the API docuementation and did not find an API call for 'video thumbnail' I'm hoping that there might be a different way to associate the thumbnail with the video that would allow me to simply parse the feed.
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