How to aggregate videos feeds from most popular sources?

[sleidia]

Hi guys,

I'm a PHP/mySQL programmer and web designer and I was asking myself the following question :

What should be the first things I should look into if I wanted to create a website that would aggregate/embed videos about specific themes of my choice from all the existing popular video websites?

Actually, I don't know where I should start.

Thanks for the help :)

[mlseim]

You would find any RSS feeds that the video sites offer
and then use PHP to read (or parse) those XML files.

This can be done using a couple different methods (Magpie, Simplepie)
and this: http://www.codingforums.com/showthread.php?t=153887

You first have to find out if your video sites even offer the RSS feed
with the correct information that you're going to need. Then within
those RSS feeds, find out if you can pick out the genre or types of
videos you need.

This might not be an easy task ... tell us what some of your sites are going to be.
We have no idea if you're talking about music videos, youtube, ???