Difference between revisions of "Seeqpod"

Latest revision as of 10:39, 3 December 2008

Seeqpod lets you find and play music on the internet. Save your music playlists for future reference and share them with your friends (by email or by embedding the flash player in your blog or wiki). Here's their homepage.

Share

Here's how to embed the flash player in your blog or wiki:

<htm><embed src="http://www.seeqpod.com/cache/seeqpodSlimlineEmbed.swf" 
wmode="transparent" width="300" height="80" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" 
flashvars="playlistXMLPath=http://www.seeqpod.com/api/music/getPlaylist?playlist_id=dd79c8d1cc">
</embed></htm>

Download

Here are some experimental scripts in python and bash that would allow one to extract the mp3 files to the local harddrive:

xspf_scrap.py

This script returns you a nice list of mp3 urls from any xspf playlist:

#! /usr/bin/python
""" Scrap mp3 files from xspf playlist

"""
import sys, string, urllib
from xml.dom import minidom

url=sys.argv[1]
feed=urllib.urlopen(url)
xspf=minidom.parse(feed)
locations=xspf.getElementsByTagName('location')
for location in locations:
        track_url=string.strip(location.firstChild.data)
        print track_url

xspf_scrap.sh

This script builds up on its python homonym to wget the files to the local harddrive:

#! /bin/sh
case "$#" in
 '2')
   ;;
 *)
   echo "Description: Scraping xspf playlists"
   echo "Usage: > `basename $0` url folder"
   exit 99
   ;;
esac

#Safety measure when called from crontab
here="/home/guillaume/downloads/music/"
cd $here

url=$1
folder=$2
mkdir $folder
cd $folder
file='filelist.tmp'
python ../xspf_scrap.py $url > $file
wget -c -nc -i $file
rm $file
cd ..

seeq_scrap.sh

This script downloads the files contained in a seeqpod playlist url. (It requires both previous scripts above):

#! /bin/sh
case "$#" in
 '2')
   ;;
 *)
   echo "Description: Scraping xspf playlists"
   echo "Usage: > `basename $0` url folder"
   exit 99
   ;;
esac

#Safety measure when called from crontab
here="/home/guillaume/downloads/music/"
cd $here

url=$1
folder=$2
uid=`echo $url | perl -ne 'm/plid=(.*)$/ && print$1."\n"'`
playlist="http://www.seeqpod.com/api/music/getPlaylist?playlist_id=${uid}"
./xspf_scrap.sh $playlist $folder

Bookmark

The smartest way is probably by using the download all links tool from your favorite browser. Here's the bookmark that transforms xspf playlists into html pages:

http://www.w3.org/2000/06/webdata/xslt
?xslfile=http://pointpt.user.openhosting.com/~guillaume/xspf2html.xsl
&xmlfile=http://www.seeqpod.com/api/music/getPlaylist?playlist_id=%s
&transform=Submit

External references

• Seeqpod.