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		pattern on June 8, 2012 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: ShowHN: We built this so you can send a mixtape to... Where are you getting the song data (title / artist name) from? If it isn't scraped from YouTube, how do you match up the search results with YouTube videos? Good work! P.S. When viewing source (on Chrome, OS X) it shows the .search and .mixtape divs as blank! Is there a reason for this?

Jonovono on June 8, 2012 [–]

It looks like youtube. If you check the network tab in Chrome.

pattern on June 9, 2012 | [–]

Thank you for bringing this to my attention - I will make good use of the Network tab going forward :) I had only ever really used Console and Elements in the past.

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