rkrug wrote: > Any chance that this can be made available as a new (or updated) > plugin for JazzFM? Anybody can take what I have posted and put it online. I updated the plaugin because playing JazzFM is no longer dependent on BBCiPlayer plugin and it needs to be separate.
Creating a plugin is easy - maintenance & support is where the effort lies and needs committment. Already I have spent about twice as much time answering posts and giving support as it took to update the plugin. To support the plugin you need somebody who wants to use the plugin usually someone who will play the station on a regular basis. I don't play this station. donmatter wrote: > Do I understand that the URLs will need periodically updating? Not just the URLs - but the undertstanding the contents and layout (i.e html) of a web page. JazzFM dos not have an official feed for programs so the plugin relies on screen scraping which emans for each "catchup" find the relevant web page and then look through HTML of the page to find where the "right" info is located". Ihave used the webpage for Mobile because the "pages" are simpler. Screen scraping is high maintenance because websites are updated frequently changing layout of pages (marketing people seems to think if layout stays the same listeners will stop listening) which means HTML is changed so plugin will have to be updated "find" the info again. > Can anyone do it? Yes - with a bit of time to learn a limited amount of HTML and Perl. > Where do you get them from? They are not published - they are found by examining the JazzFm website after a change is made. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ bpa's Profile: http://forums.slimdevices.com/member.php?userid=1806 View this thread: http://forums.slimdevices.com/showthread.php?t=102210 _______________________________________________ plugins mailing list [email protected] http://lists.slimdevices.com/mailman/listinfo/plugins
