Video-Production System With Social-Media Features

A method comprising:

• selecting a publisher of social media (SM) content items on a SM platform;
• periodically retrieving, from the SM platform, one or more SM content items published by the selected publisher;
• storing each retrieved SM content item in a cache storage of a computing system;
• selecting a SM content item on the SM platform to be integrated in a video program;
• responsive to selecting the SM content item, determining that the selected SM content item is stored in the cache storage;
• and
• using the selected SM content item stored in the cache storage to integrate the selected SM content item into the video program.

A non-transitory computer-readable medium having stored thereon, program instructions that when executed by a processor, cause a computing system to perform a set of acts comprising:

• (a) accessing, by a computing system, a social media (SM) platform;
• (b) selecting, by the computing system, a SM content item published on the SM platform;
• (c) responsive to selecting the SM content item, accessing, by the computing system, a webpage of the SM platform;
• (d) detecting that the webpage contains a nested link object on the webpage, wherein the nested link object is selectable to display one or more hidden SM content items on the webpage;
• (e) selecting the nested link object on the webpage to display the one or more hidden SM content items on the webpage;
• (f) responsive to selecting the nested link object, the computing system evaluating the displayed one or more hidden SM content items on the webpage to determine whether the selected SM content item is displayed on the webpage;
• (g) repeating acts (d)-(f) until the computing system determines that the selected SM content item is displayed on the webpage;
• and
• (h) responsive to determining that the selected SM content item is displayed on the webpage, the computing system retrieving the selected SM content item via the webpage.