The Magma video search allows for queried search of known videos, matching against title and description. These results are returned in order of relevance.

While the results are identical to a regular channel request, the search does not offer as many parameters.

URL
    http://mag.ma/search.format

Formats
    XML, RSS, JSON, YAML, HTML, text

HTTP Method
    GET

Authentication
    none

Rate Limited
    none, however please attempt to cache your requests.

Parameters

• query. Required. Keyword query for video search.
• page. Optional. Default value is 1.
• callback. Optional. Specify a function callback (JSON format only)

Response

   XML Example:

              <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
              <channel>
                <created_at type="datetime" nil="true"></created_at>
                <featured type="boolean">false</featured>
                <nsfw type="boolean">false</nsfw>
                <updated_at type="datetime" nil="true"></updated_at>
                <canonical_url>http://mag.ma/search%3Fq=FAT+Lab</canonical_url>
                <description nil="true"></description>
                <image_small>http://mag.ma/logos/small/missing.png</image_small>
                <image_large>http://mag.ma/logos/large/missing.png</image_large>
                <image_icon>http://mag.ma/logos/icon/missing.png</image_icon>
                <following_count type="integer">0</following_count>
                <followers_count type="integer">0</followers_count>
                <tagline nil="true"></tagline>
                <title>Search Results for 'FAT Lab'</title>
                <type>search</type>
                <videos_count type="integer">0</videos_count>
                <website nil="true"></website>
                <videos type="array">
                  <video>
                    <created_at type="datetime">2010-02-26T19:00:07Z</created_at>
                    <description>In February, the world's top curators and critics nominated the 100 best 
                    design of 2009. Three projects by FAT Lab fellows were in the hunt... but only one can 
                    win. But anyway, it will probably be that dead fashion designer... Free Art and 
                    Technology Lab: playing above our heads since 2007.</description>
                    <embed>
                        &lt;object width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;225&quot;&gt;
              
                          &lt;param name=&quot;allowfullscreen&quot; value=&quot;true&quot; /&gt;
                          &lt;param name=&quot;allowscriptaccess&quot; value=&quot;always&quot; /&gt;
              
                          &lt;param name=&quot;movie&quot; value=&quot;http://vimeo.com
                          /moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9749744&amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;
                          show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=&amp;amp;fullscreen=1&quot; /&gt;
                          &lt;embed src=&quot;http://vimeo.com/moogaloop.swf?clip_id=9749744
                          &amp;amp;show_title=0&amp;amp;show_portrait=0&amp;amp;color=
                          &amp;amp;fullscreen=1&quot; type=&quot;application/x-shockwave-flash&quot; 
                          allowfullscreen=&quot;true&quot; allowscriptaccess=&quot;always&quot;
                          width=&quot;400&quot; height=&quot;225&quot;&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;
              
                        &lt;/object&gt;
                        </embed>
                    <id type="integer">420278</id>
                    <nsfw type="boolean">false</nsfw>
                    <score type="float">5.1</score>
                    <source>vimeo</source>
              
                    <thumbnail>http://ts.vimeo.com.s3.amazonaws.com/492/116/49211644_200.jpg</thumbnail>
                    <title>2009: Year of the FAT</title>
                    <updated_at type="datetime">2010-03-13T00:19:30Z</updated_at>
                    <canonical_url>http://mag.ma/jamiew/420278</canonical_url>
                    <in_channel_url>http://mag.ma/greg/420278</in_channel_url>
                    <views_count type="integer">667</views_count>
              
                    <comments_count type="integer">2</comments_count>
                    <likes_count type="integer">0</likes_count>
                    <links_count type="integer">0</links_count>
                    <tags_list nil="true"></tags_list>
                    <categories_list nil="true"></categories_list>
                    <source_url>http://vimeo.com/9749744</source_url>
                  </video>
              
                  ...
              
                </videos>
              </channel>
              

Example Usage

    cURL request:
        curl http://mag.ma/search.xml?q=FAT+Lab 

 

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