Yahoo! Video Warroom

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Planning room for Yahoo! Video.

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Phase One: Username Acquisition

Acquiring the usernames and which have videos is done by the script yvscan. Ask Jason for a copy. The process is somewhat slow, as going to fast gets the dreaded 999. As a result, we need a large number of people and machines doing the work, so we have to put them here to keep track of who's doing what. The scraper pulls in userpics, a copy of the user page, and generates a userlist.txt of all the accounts it has found.

There are roughly 9,500,000 user accounts on Yahoo Video. (Let us not fool ourselves as to thinking these are real people.) Some are "Networks", i.e. collections of other videos (but not many, maybe 1 out of every 50,000, or less.) Most have no videos at all, but to make a hitlist of videos to download, we need those.

0,000,000 Jason Scott 1,000,000 Joey 1,500,000 Joey 2,000,000 Joey 2,500,000 Soultcer 3,000,000 Soultcer 5,000,000 Jason Scott 7,500,000 Jason Scott