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	// TubeKit Beta 4
	// http://www.tubekit.org
	// Author: Chirag Shah
	// Date: 10/22/2009
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			<td><i>TubeKit</i> is a toolkit for creating YouTube crawlers. It allows one to build one's own crawler that can crawl YouTube based on a set of seed queries and collect up to two dozen different attributes. <i>TubeKit</i> assists in all the phases of this process starting database creation to finally preparing analysis reports from the collected data. <p>Requirements: a UNIX-based system (Linux, Solaris, Mac), Web server with PHP and MySQL support, PHP 5 or higher, and MySQL 4 or higher. Most UNIX-based systems should have these already installed.  Optionally, if you want to download flash videos from YouTube, you need <a href="http://bitbucket.org/rg3/youtube-dl/wiki/Home">youtube-dl</a> (a copy included here) and Python 2.4 or higher. For converting them to mpeg, you'll require <a href="http://ffmpeg.mplayerhq.hu/download.html">ffmpeg</a> tool.</td>
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			<td><br>Steps to create your YouTube crawler with <i>TubeKit</i>:
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					<li>Provide basic information (project name, directories to store Flash and MPEGE videos).</li>
					<li>Set up the database.</li>
					<li>Select up to 17 different attributes to collect for a YouTube video.</li>
					<li>Set up various schedules for crawling.</li>
					<li>Enter seed queries.</li>
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		<tr><td>You can find detailed information in the <a href="documentation.php">documentation</a>. If you still have any problem, feedback/comment, or for the bug report, you can contact <a href="#" onclick="o='@';o='&#99;&#104;&#105;&#114;&#97;&#103;&#115;'+o;o='mailto:'+o;o+='rutgers.edu';this.href=o;">Chirag Shah</a>. To get started with creating a crawler, go to <a href="setup.php">Setup</a>.<br /><br /></td></tr>
		<tr><td><a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/"><img alt="Creative Commons License" style="border-width:0" src="http://i.creativecommons.org/l/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/88x31.png"/></a> <span xmlns:dc="http://purl.org/dc/elements/1.1/" property="dc:title"><i>TubeKit</i></span> by <a xmlns:cc="http://creativecommons.org/ns#" href="http://comminfo.rutgers.edu/~chirags" property="cc:attributionName" rel="cc:attributionURL">Chirag Shah</a> is licensed under a <a rel="license" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0/us/">Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 United States License</a> and is meant to be used in a research setting. You are requested to look at the licence agreements of the third party tools and services that you may use for <i>TubeKit</i>. The author does not take any responsibility for license violation of those products or misuse of <i>TubeKit</i>.
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