VideosZ to Nubiles Tube – FLV dump converter
VideosZ is not directly compatible with the Nubiles Tube FLV dump file format. So we’ll just have to extract the required data from the VideosZ dumps, adjust it to the Nubiles Tube format and then we are ready to import it. This will add a nice list of 5991 extra movies to your tube.
Step 1:
-Download the VideosZ FLV list. Login or.. register and login to your account.
-Use the `FLV Hosted Movie Galleries CSV Export` under `Promotional Tools`, in the left-hand side column of the affiliate control panel.
Links options section:
- Choose a payout program = either PPS or REVS; completely up to you.
- Choose a Tracker if you wanna track the click, or leave as `No Tracker`; completely up to you.
- Nb Galleries = input how many videos you want to pull. 9999 maybe.
- Separator = `|` REQUIRED, conversion will fail if you use a different separator.
- Templates = Since variety is good, use `Random all`; completely up to you.
- DVD/Niche/Pornstar = Use `All` if you run a general content tube, or select a niche if your tube is niched.
Content Options section:
- this display order must be maintained as follows (it defaults to this ordering anyway), or the script will fail
- URL = display order 1; required.
- Description = display order 2; required.
- Screenshot = display order 3; required.
- Screenshot width and height are irrelevant here, the script will automatically go for the largest size you can fit on your tube.
- Genres = display order 4; required.
- Genres separator can be anything, but `|`. This example uses `, `, to space them out.
- Pornstars = display order 5; required.
- Pornstars separator can be anything, but `|`. This example uses `,`.
- Order = completely up to you.
This may look something like this, but only the `Separator` field is mandatory, so it’s up to you:
Generate and download your FLV export.
Step 2:
Convert the bulk exported file to tube compatible file. Download the PHP script and run it from the command line.
If you have saved the PHP script file as vz2nt.php, and the bulk export file is saved as flash_trailers.txt, and you wish to save results to `dump.txt` that would look something like:
Step 3:
Import your new 5991 movies into your tube. Use the `Dump` option from the left-hand side column, after logging in as admin to your tube. You can select a new channel for that. You may also wish to backdate most of the videos so that they already show online and you can instantly boost the amount of online videos.
Note: your tube video description will be in the format
`VideosZ description if any. Featuring: VideosZ pornstars names. Category: VideosZ tags.`
Note: each of the videos will have 3 sub-scenes, automatically appended to the main video.
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Those that are not familiar with PHP and have troubles running the script, can post their questions as comments to this entry.
September 19th, 2008 at 11:09 pm
Couple of things… problems I ran into were 1) trailing slash for FLV & sample thumbs URLs weren’t included on the URL conversion, and 2) URL location for the FLVs. Trailing slash issue was easy to clean up with Excel, but the only way I could see to verify the paths was to manually visit each FHG URL, then view page source.
September 20th, 2008 at 4:16 am
Thanks for the heads up!
Those are the type of issues I kinda expected to occur while transforming the script for public use. I will try to fix them as I write the reply and I will upload the new script.
1) Missing trailing slash for both FLV URL and thumb URL folders
Fixed. The previous public release was missing the final `/` in both of the URLs.
2) Invalid FLV and thumb filenames
Fixed. The previous public release was missing a `videosz-` prefix for all FLV and thumbs filenames.
Actually I hope that the fix #2 is the issue you addressed as `URL location for the FLVs`. I mean that in the previous version of the script, both the URL `folders` and filenames, both for the FLV and thumb, were invalid and needed a fix.
So far, I randomly checked the structure of the dump and it seems ok. Also, I tested the new dump on a local Nubiles Tube install and it seemed to have processed it with 100% saved entries and 0% errors, adding all 5991 current videos.
The corrected version of the script can be found at the same location indicated above, I overwritten it with the updated and corrected one.
PS: Thanks for contributing and always looking for more sponsors to convert to Nubiles Tube