The latest articles on DEV Community by Mohamad Harith (@harithmohamad97). https://dev.to/harithmohamad97 https://media2.dev.to/dynamic/image/width=90,height=90,fit=cover,gravity=auto,format=auto/https:%2F%2Fdev-to-uploads.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fuploads%2Fuser%2Fprofile_image%2F144417%2F38049fc8-6116-4a37-b3f1-09fc1a743142.jpg https://dev.to/harithmohamad97 en Mohamad Harith Mon, 11 Mar 2019 17:36:49 +0000 https://dev.to/harithmohamad97/random-youtube-song-player-9ah https://dev.to/harithmohamad97/random-youtube-song-player-9ah <h1> Random Youtube Song Player </h1> <p>(<a href="https://rahmanify.harith.xyz">https://rahmanify.harith.xyz</a>)</p> <p>Hi,</p> <p>I am just getting started with web development and have built <a href="https://rahmanify.harith.xyz">this</a> fun project. It is a random song generator from a list of albums of a well known Indian composer, A.R. Rahman. </p> <p>I have used an API from <a href="https://musicbrainz.org">https://musicbrainz.org</a> to get the album database of the composer in JSON format. Then I randomly select a song from the list and pass it to the Youtube search API which will return a list of search results. However, I only return the top result which is always accurate.Then the web app redirects the page to youtube with the returned video ID. Finally, the web app is hosted on Firebase.</p> <p>Limitations of this app:</p> <ol> <li>Couldn't filter the year of the album due to the limitations of the API.</li> <li>Doesn't work on Safari and Firefox yet.</li> <li>Youtube API only accepts around 200 requests per IP, I think.</li> </ol> <p>Any form of suggestions on how I could improve this simple app is highly appreciated,<br> Thank you.</p> youtube api beginners showdev