YouTube content sources

[dbernheisel]

Today we have the concept of a "Tip" which is user-generated content submitted to this platform. It would be nice to also curate content from other platforms, such as YouTube videos or a Twitter stream (such as hashtag #MyElixirStatus).

This discussion is focused on the YouTube source.

There are several YouTube channels dedicated to Elixir content that we could subscribe to, and as we discover more channels, add those channels to the list. Curation would be important however, because those channels aren't required to publish Elixir content so we would still want to have some curation process to ensure the content is appropriate.

A potential issue with this workflow is that YouTube videos are typically not transcribed to text, which makes searchability more difficult from inside the platform.

Some relevant APIs:

List by Keyword - https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search/list
List by Channel (w/ channel ID param) - https://developers.google.com/youtube/v3/docs/search