Fin.

That's it. I'm holding off on changing the youtuber for a while to start on some other stuff. See the page called "plans for the future of Youtuber" for information on the future of youtuber. Alternatively, you can check the Background page, for background.

Video URL

the video URL is the youtube internal reference to a video. The default value is a charming movie about a panda.

Count

the count is how many comments it will grab, starting from the most recent one. currently the total maximum is 1000 - youtube imposes this constraint, but it could (will) be circumvented with a screen scraper

load comments

load comments grabs the comments, showing the load wheel. It also finds the initial 'top comment', or most representative of all the comments (it does that by counting the occurrences of all of the words in all of the posts - "common words", like "the, and, it" etc. are shown in red, and are added to an 'excluded' list.. these are ignored for the purpose of finding the top comment. the graph shows the individual words and their frequencies, in order.
the top comment is calculated by assigning the frequency of each "non-common" word as a score for that word - since panda occurs a lot, the word 'panda' will score more highly, and all of the posts that contain 'panda' will have a higher score.
The total comment score is divided by the deviation from the average comment length.. longer and shorter posts are penalized and we end up with a surprisingly representative comment in most cases.