Songza debugged !

In an earlier post i had posted the link to this site called songza.com which is a music search and play site.

With some quick analysis of the packet captures i found that its nothing more than a "pretty search wrapper over youtube".

Below is an HTTP request/response session that a search generated.

The HTTP Request to songza.com with my search query string "Kandukondain" was

GET /a/query?q=Kandukondain HTTP/1.1
Host: songza.com
User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.1.8) Gecko/20071022 Ubuntu/7.10 (gutsy) Firefox/2.0.0.8
Accept: text/xml,application/xml,application/xhtml+xml,text/html;q=0.9,text/plain;q=0.8,image/png,*/*;q=0.5
Accept-Language: en-us,en;q=0.5
Accept-Encoding: gzip,deflate
Accept-Charset: ISO-8859-1,utf-8;q=0.7,*;q=0.7
Keep-Alive: 300
Connection: keep-alive
X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest
Referer: http://songza.com/
Cookie: __utmb=41883168; __utma=41883168.246409471.1194922056.1195069878.1195070278.7; __utmz=41883168.1194975040.4.2.utmccn=(referral)|utmcsr=n30bli7z.blogspot.com|utmcct=/|utmcmd=referral; __utmc=41883168


The HTTP response with the contents "GZIP encoded" was:

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2007 20:06:09 GMT
Server: Apache/2.0.54
X-Powered-By: PHP/5.2.2
Vary: Accept-Encoding
Content-Encoding: gzip
Content-Length: 286
Keep-Alive: timeout=2, max=50
Connection: Keep-Alive
Content-Type: text/html

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The GZIP decoded data is as follows

[
{ "id": "76nOCoQ2FKQ", "title": "Yenge Yenathu Kandukondain Kandukondain", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=76nOCoQ2FKQ", "flv": "http://rd.cache.l.google.com/get_video?video_id=76nOCoQ2FKQ", "rating": "-1" },
{ "id": "TftTsber0y0", "title": "Kandukondain Kandukondain - kannamoochi", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TftTsber0y0", "flv": "http://rd.cache.l.google.com/get_video?video_id=TftTsber0y0", "rating": "-1" },
{ "id": "Y8XYNQR4AL8", "title": "kandukondain", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y8XYNQR4AL8", "flv": "http://rd.cache.l.google.com/get_video?video_id=Y8XYNQR4AL8", "rating": "-1" },
{ "id": "i1bu_mdpZdc", "title": "palike gorinka-------priyuralu pilichindi", "url": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=i1bu_mdpZdc", "flv": "http://rd.cache.l.google.com/get_video?video_id=i1bu_mdpZdc", "rating": "-1" }
]

As you can see, all the links are from youtube.