Wordpress has a too greater layer of abstraction, I really don't understand why you'd resort to it in the first place?

You need to use some sort of server-sided language such as PHP. From there you should use the curl library along with simple html and DOM parsing to crawl through anchor links until you find one leading to a (.mp4/.ogg etc..) file. You can then store these urls in a database. Pretty simple really, I mean you could add checks to see if the movie file is still up etc..

As all urls to the movie files will be in the database you can just call and embed them as needed in either your own flash player or just with html5:

iyop45 wrote Wordpress has a too greater layer of abstraction, I really don't understand why you'd resort to it in the first place?

You need to use some sort of server-sided language such as PHP. From there you should use the curl library along with simple html and DOM parsing to crawl through anchor links until you find one leading to a (.mp4/.ogg etc..) file. You can then store these urls in a database. Pretty simple really, I mean you could add checks to see if the movie file is still up etc..

As all urls to the movie files will be in the database you can just call and embed them as needed in either your own flash player or just with html5:


<video width="300" height="240" controls>
  <source src="<?=$movieURL;?>" type="video/<?=$movieFormat;?>">
</video>


Thank you very much this was really helpful, unfortunately I do not know much HTML or PHP which is why I resorted to Wordpress I am willing to learn HTML and PHP if fully needed.

Well wordpress itself can be manipulated as it's just code.