This tool allows users to build their own custom Minecraft video playlists from various Minecraft YouTube series. Currently, Hermitcraft and the Life Series are supported.
The site works by using the Fandom Wiki's public API with the Hermitcraft and Life Series wiki data to source which creators appear in a particular season of a series. Then, this data is used to query Google's YouTube API to receive metadata about the matching videos, such as their title, date, and creator. This data is stored in an Azure SQL database. The client can retrieve parts of this data from the backend.
Users can create an account on the site using their Microsoft or Google account. They can create their own playlists, choosing a particular series, season, and set of creators who appeared in that season. Users are able to access these playlists and mark particular videos as watched.
The inspiration for this project came from my own desire for a tool like this. In a series like Hermitcraft, there can be over 20 creators appearing in a particular season, each with dozens of their own videos. It is thus quite challenging to follow along with more than two or three creators' videos over the course of a season. YouTube currently does not have functionality for allowing users to sort their playlist videos by upload time, meaning that following multiple creators' perspectives chronologically can be challenging. My hope is that this tool will encourage fans to watch creators that they normally would not be able to because of this limitation.
I am currently not hosting the site publically anywhere, but I have plans to do so in the future!