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Dynamic search for YouTube videos in Android

As discussed on today's stream, my request is a change to the YouTube streaming for the Android version of Launchbox. 

One issue with the current version is the DB pointing to delisted YouTube videos and no video is played. It also relies on someone manually adding a URL to every game ever made any keeping it up to date. 

My suggestion is to add a fallback for when a game doesn't have a URL or when a video is delisted.

Android Launchbox could be set up to automatically search for a video when one isn't found from the URL. So pull the following;

Game name, platform, and something like trailer

So as an example;

Super Mario Kart, Super Nintendo Entertainment System, trailer. 

The first result for me from that search brings up this: https://youtu.be/dyz4tJAmhc8?si=HhF3kn4rKB_WM0wL

Advantages:

No need to have a user enter a URL into the DB

Dynamic, always up to date. A video will always play

Should always return results 

No issue with http and https links like current version (currently some videos don't play but will work if adding or removing the S from HTTP. 

This could be a fallback for when videos don't work from current version. Best of both worlds.

Status: Open To Community

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