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My weekend hack project - the top tweeted spotify albums from the last 24hrs

3 points by topcat31 16y ago

topcat31 16y ago
Hey, this is my latest project. Hope you like it. A few details for the hackers: Built on: - Google appengine - Pyhton APIs used: - Topsy api (http://corp.topsy.com/developers/api/ http://corp.topsy.com/developers/api/) - Spotify metadata api (http://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/overview/ http://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/overview/) - Last.fm api (http://www.last.fm/api http://www.last.fm/api) - Amazon api (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/deta...) First, I pull the top shared links on spotify from the Topsy api which is dead easy, then process each spotify link with the spotify metadata api to get artist/album. Unfortunately, the metadata api from spotify doesn't give you the artwork so I head over to last.fm and amazon to see if I can get the artwork. Between last.fm and amazon I'm getting 90% of the album art which is nice. Any Q's - hit me up on twitter: @tomcritchlow or ask a question below.
- thehodge 16y ago
  No link to buy on amazon tom, I'm disappointed ;)
  - topcat31 16y ago
    This is done just for the love! :)
- mbesto 16y ago
  Nice! I might have to mashup a similar app for my friends. I had a few friends who would follow me on @mbesto where I would push a link to a new song everyday. It became a bit troublesome to have to search for the song on youtube, crete a bit.ly link and then post to Twitter. I'm wondering if I can make the whole process a lot easier. User clicks, youtube video opens in pop-up, if they like it they purchase it via Amazon. Until Spotify makes it to the US, youtube is the only option.
ntulip 16y ago
Sweet. Best thing that came out of your hard work Beardyman: http://open.spotify.com/album/6nBmbQRXXf3diJFmGr6ubW http://open.spotify.com/album/6nBmbQRXXf3diJFmGr6ubW
robgough 16y ago
This is a really great idea... I'd love to see an RSS feed with each days albums with a simple format something like; <artist> <albumname> <spotifylink> I'm not sure how good the Spotify API is, but could you not also have a spotify playlist of the top ten albums? Anyway, well done!
- topcat31 16y ago
  An RSS feed is definitely on my todo list! Unfortunately making playlists isn't possible in the metadata API (and you can't use the full libspotify api on appengine) so that's not going to happen for a while I think... I wish playlist stuff was in the metadata api - I'd love to write the same app but for playlists instead of albums. I can get the data but can't decode the playlist to figure out who created it and what's in it etc

3 points by topcat31 16y ago

Hey, this is my latest project. Hope you like it. A few details for the hackers: Built on: - Google appengine - Pyhton APIs used: - Topsy api (http://corp.topsy.com/developers/api/ http://corp.topsy.com/developers/api/) - Spotify metadata api (http://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/overview/ http://developer.spotify.com/en/metadata-api/overview/) - Last.fm api (http://www.last.fm/api http://www.last.fm/api) - Amazon api (https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/detail/main.html https://affiliate-program.amazon.com/gp/advertising/api/deta...) First, I pull the top shared links on spotify from the Topsy api which is dead easy, then process each spotify link with the spotify metadata api to get artist/album. Unfortunately, the metadata api from spotify doesn't give you the artwork so I head over to last.fm and amazon to see if I can get the artwork. Between last.fm and amazon I'm getting 90% of the album art which is nice. Any Q's - hit me up on twitter: @tomcritchlow or ask a question below.

thehodge 16y ago
No link to buy on amazon tom, I'm disappointed ;)
- topcat31 16y ago
  This is done just for the love! :)
mbesto 16y ago
Nice! I might have to mashup a similar app for my friends. I had a few friends who would follow me on @mbesto where I would push a link to a new song everyday. It became a bit troublesome to have to search for the song on youtube, crete a bit.ly link and then post to Twitter. I'm wondering if I can make the whole process a lot easier. User clicks, youtube video opens in pop-up, if they like it they purchase it via Amazon. Until Spotify makes it to the US, youtube is the only option.

ntulip 16y ago

Sweet. Best thing that came out of your hard work Beardyman: http://open.spotify.com/album/6nBmbQRXXf3diJFmGr6ubW http://open.spotify.com/album/6nBmbQRXXf3diJFmGr6ubW

robgough 16y ago

This is a really great idea... I'd love to see an RSS feed with each days albums with a simple format something like; <artist> <albumname> <spotifylink> I'm not sure how good the Spotify API is, but could you not also have a spotify playlist of the top ten albums? Anyway, well done!

topcat31 16y ago
An RSS feed is definitely on my todo list! Unfortunately making playlists isn't possible in the metadata API (and you can't use the full libspotify api on appengine) so that's not going to happen for a while I think... I wish playlist stuff was in the metadata api - I'd love to write the same app but for playlists instead of albums. I can get the data but can't decode the playlist to figure out who created it and what's in it etc