Return video information in API for videos

#72

The API does not yet return video specific information for videos. For example, in the friend shake, a video may appear as:

{
    "description": null, 
    "height": 360, 
    "name": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JVpy0L5z7s", 
    "original_image_url": "http://mlkshk.com/r/XSM", 
    "permalink_page": "http://mlkshk.com/p/XSM", 
    "title": "Minamisanriku footage", 
    "user_id": 2, 
    "user_name": "andre", 
    "width": 480
}

Per #71, I might expect the same video specific information as would be present in an oEmbed video:

{
    "description": null,
    "height": 360,
    "html": "<iframe class=\"youtube-player\" type=\"text/html\" width=\"550\" height=\"339\" src=\"http://www.youtube.com/embed/6JVpy0L5z7s?rnd=0.374508428366&autoplay=0\" frameborder=\"0\"></iframe>",
    "name": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JVpy0L5z7s",
    "original_image_url": "http://mlkshk.com/r/XSM",
    "permalink_page": "http://mlkshk.com/p/XSM",
    "thumbnail_height": 480,
    "thumbnail_url": "http://mlkshk.com/r/XSM",
    "thumbnail_width": 640,
    "title": "Minamisanriku footage",
    "type": "video",
    "user_id": 2,
    "user_name": "andre",
    "width": 480
}

(That is, type, html, and thumbnail_*.)

Reported by Mark Paschal · March 12th, 2011 @ 11:58 AM

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Mark Paschal

As with #71, it's fine to treat a video as a link object here too:

{
    "description": null,
    "height": 360,
    "permalink_page": "http://mlkshk.com/p/XSM",
    "title": "Minamisanriku footage",
    "type": "link",
    "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6JVpy0L5z7s",
    "user_id": 2,
    "user_name": "andre",
    "width": 480
}

March 16th, 2011 @ 04:07 PM

Andre Torrez
- State changed from new to open
I'm rewriting this part right now so that /api/sharedfile/1 and /api/friends return either a single object or a list of objects that are identical. Poor planning on my part means that it was generating the sharedfile object twice depending if it was a single request or in a group.

We're rolling out Friend Finding in the next hour or so, so I'm going to help with that. This code I'm writing will be live tomorrow for sure.

March 16th, 2011 @ 04:15 PM
Mark Paschal
Is the refactoring still left to do? The API includes "url" data in the friend shake already, so this could be complete.

April 1st, 2011 @ 09:00 PM

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