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Congrats on shipping your first project! This is very similar to something I built a few year back that aggregates music from blogs in the "college music" demog
by hartleybrody 14y ago
Congrats on shipping your first project! This is very similar to something I built a few year back that aggregates music from blogs in the "college music" demographic (hip-hop + pop + electronic).
http://www.thecollegecartel.com/ http://www.thecollegecartel.com/
Are you using Magpie RSS (http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/ http://magpierss.sourceforge.net/) or scraping more directly? I remember that was the first third party library I had ever used.
I found that the simplest thing was to split the list of posts out by site. I was thinking of having a "most recent" section at the top, but -- as others have mentioned -- I had trouble devising a good de-duplication strategy.
The other issue I struggled with was grabbing the actual music file from the site and potentially allowing it to be streamed on my site. I suppose there are a small enough number of embedded audio players used that I could have dissected each one and figured out how to pull the link to the audio file.
But, I grew bored with that project and moved on to other things. I'd love to lend a hand if you have any questions!
- companyhen 14y agoVery nice! I'm actually using SimplePie (http://www.simplepie.org/ http://www.simplepie.org/) which I found a pleasure to work with. I'll take your comments into consideration. I was thinking to try to sort the stories by popularity (measured by # of clicks?) as well. I definitely would like to talk - you can shoot me an email, it's my username @gmail.com!