Of course this is an unofficial and unsupported solution, so it might break at any time and without warning!

YouTube username (for example homestarrunnerdotcom): Show me!

And the following one is from friends (these are in German, but many of them can be enjoyed even if you don’t know the language):

Some of the highlights from both of the channels:

In a previous post I wanted to embed two youtube channel gadgets, but after pasting the official code, I kept getting the following error message: “The URL is not valid and cannot be loaded.”

After looking into it a little, it seems at one step the following code is generated: <iframe src=”http://?… (the domain is missing). After searching around a little, I came up with the following Perl script which generates (what seems to be) the correct embed code:

use strict;
use warnings;
use LWP::Simple;

my $youtubeCN = get(shift @ARGV);
die("Script tag not found!n")
 unless $youtubeCN =~ /<script src="(.*?)">/;
my $youtubeScr = $1;
$youtubeScr =~ s/&/&/g;
$youtubeScr =~ s/&/&/g;
my $gmodScr = get($youtubeScr);

$gmodScr =~ s/http://?container/http://www.gmodules.com/ig/ifr?/;
print "<script type="text/javascript">$gmodScr</script>n"; 

It needs one parameter, the URL of the youtube channel: perl bork_youtube_channel.pl 'http://www.youtube.com/user/pennsays' and it will spit out the code you need to insert. Warning! This is an unofficial method and has the drawback that it may break later on when YouTube changes their embed model. You can download the latest version of the script from my SVN repo.

PS: it seems that playing videos with the channel gadget is more permissive than directly on Youtube, in the sense that I didn’t get a single “this can not be played due to age/location restriction” message.

PS2: Does anybody have an idea why do I have to do the replacement twice? When I do it only one, it doesn’t seem to “stick”.

Update: so I’m an idiot, the URL was double-encoded for some reason…

An other interesting (to me, and hopefully to you dear reader) YouTube channel is the one of Weird Al Yankovic. Unfortunately here most of the videos are not viewable from Romania, but the ones which are, are still worth it:

Finally a very “chill-outy” song from a fellow blogger:

Or use the following bookmarklet: HQ YouTube. All you will have to do is to drag the link on your bookmark bar, and when you are on a Youtube page, click it and it will generate the modified embed tag for you.

Intel Video Ad Directed by Christopher Guest #1

And here are some others I’ve found clicking around:

Intel Video Ad Directed by Christopher Guest #2

“Mac or PC” Rap Music Video – Mac vs PC

South Park Mac vs. PC