Hello all,
I've been a lurker on the forum for around 10 years now, and in that time I have seen many of the great compilation channels go down, more-so recently. What I think we need is a way of archiving our content so that we aren't subject to as much public scrutiny, especially with PewDiePie's recent video. Additionally, YouTube recommends our channels on a lot of the videos we visit as is. Since I'm a bored software developer, I've been thinking on this for a bit; I haven't figured out an ultimate solution, but I think I can with time.
In the meantime, I've created a program that - given a streamer name - pulls various websites together to download all of the chat messages from any recent broadcasts from that streamer. Then, it goes ahead and scans the messages to find keywords or phrases that may be of interest to us (if you're familiar with regular expressions, you're welcome to modify it, it's far from perfect; just ask me for the source), and ultimately pumps out a file for that user in which all marked messages have their URLs laid right next to them. Attached is one of these files (one of my favorite streamers for entertainment's sake, Dodger). If you're worried about viruses and the like, here's a screenshot of my screen right now; the file is on the left.
I figure the only fair thing would be for me to take requests, so I'm going to. Just post your request, and assuming I remember committing to doing this I will respond with the results. Note that VODs only stay active for around 60 days, and this program is not yet capable of automatically downloading clips from the videos (not yet, working on that), so there's a bit of work to do yourselves, but nothing too terrible.
Those of you that are interested, be sure to give me any recommendations on how to continue improving this. It's far from perfect, but short of complex syntactic analysis of multiple languages (something programmers haven't figured out yet, but... we're trying) the best I can do for us is keyword searches for right now. I plan on supporting this for as long as we want.
Enjoy your weekends,
SeaPooter