Science Friday Video Feed for Stations and Partner Web Sites

Quick start

Include select videos from Science Friday in your own site just by including a line of JavaScript in your site's html. Sample: <script type="text/javascript"src="http://www.sciencefriday.com/feed/scifrivideofeed.php?size=m&styling=yes&desc=yes"> </script>

You choose the style and the size - we provide the rest!

Web Partners

A.C. Gilbert's Discovery Village, Salem, OR
Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, Ann Arbor, MI
Boot Heel Youth Museum, Malden, MO
Burke Museum of Natural History and Culture, Seattle, WA
California Science Center, Los Angeles, CA
Fermilab, Batavia, IL
The Imagine Science Film Festival, New York, NY
Impression 5 Science Center, Lansing, MI
Liberty Science Center, Jersey City, NJ
Louisiana State University Museum of Natural Science, Baton Rouge, LA
The Museum of Broadcast Communication, Chicago, IL
Museum of the Earth, Ithaca, NY
The National Science Center (Fort Discovery), Augusta, GA
Nature Discovery Center, Bellaire, TX
NY Hall of Science, Queens, NY
Reuben H. Fleet Center, San Diego, CA
Ohio Center of Science and Industry, Columbus, OH
Science Central, Fort Wayne, IN
ScienCenter, Ithaca, NY
Science Hobbyist, Seattle, WA
St. Louis Science Center, St. Louis, MO
Western Illinois University, Tri States Public Radio, Macomb, IL

Science Friday^® is produced by ScienceFriday Inc. Science Friday, 4 West 43rd St, Suite 306, New York, New York 10036.

We're happy to make a feed of selected videos from our site available for use on the web sites of radio stations that carry SciFri and other partner institutions.

How does it work?

Just include a line of JavaScript into your web site's html code. That code will display a video picked by the Science Friday web team on your site. You can choose from three video sizes, and can either use our styles for how the video is displayed, or define your own styles using CSS to match your site's look and feel.

What's the code?

<script type="text/javascript"src="http://www.sciencefriday.com/feed/scifrivideofeed.php?size=m&styling=yes&desc=yes"> </script>

The above code produces a medium sized video, with player dimensions of 200x240 pixels. Styling is turned on (styling=yes) -- it will style the video according to the rules we've set in this css file: http://www.sciencefriday.com/css/scifristationvideo.css. Set styling=no to define your own styles. The code above will cause the video's description to be included. Set desc=no to display a player with just the video title and credits.

Here's what that all looks like:

What are the defaults?

<script type="text/javascript"src="http://www.sciencefriday.com/feed/scifrivideofeed.php"> </script>

will produce a medium-sized player, styled with Science Friday's stylesheet, and including the text description of the video. Default value for size is m, default value for styling is "yes", default value for desc is "yes".

What are the sizes?

size=s produces a player that is 180x213px.

size=m produces a player that is 200x240px.

size=l produces a player that is 260x320px.

Style it yourself!

Set styling=no to skip our stylesheet and use your own. Each part of the video feed item is wraped in its own div tag to allow easy styling using your site's CSS rules. Available div id's are:

"scifrivideo" is the whole video nugget
"scifrividplayer" is the player itself
"scifrividtext" is all the text
"scifrividtag" is our headline, currently 'SciFri Pick of the Week'
"scifrividtitle" is the video title
"scifrividcopy" is the description
"scifrividcredits" are the credits
"scifrividicon" is the tiny SciFri logo graphic

By using those css hooks, you can style the player in a variety of ways, changing text sizes, fonts, colors, borders, and layout options.