old_contents: import json
  import locale
  import re
  import urllib2
  
  from util import hook
  
  locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
  
  youtube_re = re.compile(r'.*youtube.*v=([-_a-z0-9]+)', flags=re.I)
  url = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/%s?alt=json'
  
  #@hook.command(hook=r'(.*)', prefix=False)
  def youtube(inp):
      m = youtube_re.match(inp)
      if m:
          j = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(url % m.group(1)))['entry']
          
          out = '\x02%s\x02' % j['title']['$t']
  
          rating = j.get('gd$rating')
          if rating:
              out += ' - rated \x02%.2f/%.1f\x02 (%d)' % (rating['average'],
                      rating['max'], rating['numRaters'])
  
          stats = j.get('yt$statistics')
          if stats:
              view_count = int(stats['viewCount'])
              out += ' - views \x02%s\x02' % locale.format('%d', view_count, 1)
  
          out += ' - length \x02'
          length = int(j['media$group']['yt$duration']['seconds'])
          if length / 3600: # > 1 hour
              out += '%dh ' % (length / 3600)
          if length / 60:
              out += '%dm ' % (length / 60 % 60)
          out += "%ds" % (length % 60)
  
          return out
  
new_contents: import json
  import locale
  import re
  import time
  import urllib2
  
  from util import hook
  
  locale.setlocale(locale.LC_ALL, '')
  
  youtube_re = re.compile(r'youtube.*?v=([-_a-z0-9]+)', flags=re.I)
  url = 'http://gdata.youtube.com/feeds/api/videos/%s?v=2&alt=jsonc'
  
  #@hook.command(hook=r'(.*)', prefix=False)
  def youtube(inp):
      m = youtube_re.search(inp)
      if m:
          j = json.load(urllib2.urlopen(url % m.group(1)))
  
          if j.get('error'):
              return
  
          j = j['data']
  
          out = '\x02%s\x02' % j['title']
  
          out += ' - length \x02'
          length = j['duration']
          if length / 3600: # > 1 hour
              out += '%dh ' % (length / 3600)
          if length / 60:
              out += '%dm ' % (length / 60 % 60)
          out += "%ds\x02" % (length % 60)
  
          if 'rating' in j:
              out += ' - rated \x02%.2f/5.0\x02 (%d)' % (j['rating'],
                      j['ratingCount'])
         
  
          if 'viewCount' in j:
              out += ' - \x02%s\x02 views' % locale.format('%d',
                                                           j['viewCount'], 1)
          
          upload_time = time.strptime(j['uploaded'], "%Y-%m-%dT%H:%M:%S.000Z")
          out += ' - \x02%s\x02 on \x02%s\x02' % (j['uploader'],
                      time.strftime("%Y.%m.%d", upload_time))
  
          return out
  
subject: rewrite youtube plugin again to use jsonc interface and report more information