MySpace (or things I'm going to regret later)

[Tom Parker <palfrey tevp net>]

Given that I see a number of my friends starting to have MySpace 
profiles, and as the user interface for MySpace tends to make me want to 
do something not-doctor-recommended with an icepick (that and a wish to 
open walled gardens with no APIs), I've decided to do something about this.

Therefore, I am announcing the libmyspace project. It's got a 
SourceForge project (http://sourceforge.net/projects/libmyspace/), and 
initial code that can list all of the blog entries for a given MySpace 
user. The eventual aim is to provide sufficient functionality that 
Drivel can post to MySpace as easily as it would post to any other blog 
system that has a proper API (with the side goal of also letting other 
software use the same interface to access MySpace services). There's now 
a libmyspace-devel list, and so all further communiction regarding this 
should be on that list, not here. (See 
https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/libmyspace-devel to signup)

So, I've got your attention? What can you do to help?

0) Have pcre and libcurl devel packages installed (libpcre3-dev and 
libcurl3-openssl-dev on Debian are a good choice)
1) cvs -z3 
-d:pserver:anonymous libmyspace cvs sourceforge net:/cvsroot/libmyspace 
co -P libmyspace
2) make

You should now have a 'myspace' executable, which you can hand your 
username and password (assuming you trust me... :-) and it should start 
to attempt to list all of your current blog entries. As it goes through 
and starts to try and get things, it caches various files to speed up 
subsequent runs. In fact, right now if it successfully gets everything, 
later runs won't actually do any network traffic and so complete pretty 
damn quickly. What you should expect to see on a later run is like this 
(earlier runs will have lots of libcurl debug messages):

palfrey scrumpy:[~/src/libmyspace] ./myspace myspace tevp net mypassword
converted username = myspace%40tevp.net
token is 053a97f6-63c2-4092-8f00-87b72ac94310
Time = 2006-05-07 (from Sunday, May 07, 2006)

Subject: libmyspace needs more data
cat=Content, content = Flibble, wotsit, bleh
Time = 2006-05-07 11:04:00 PM (from <b>11:04 PM</b>)

mood = bouncy, 
image=http://x.myspace.com/images/blog/moods/iBrads/bouncey.gif
Subject: Testing 1,2,3
cat=Content, content = Blah, blah, blah
Time = 2006-05-07 11:03:00 PM (from <b>11:03 PM</b>)

If you don't see this, I want to know. If you do see this, I also want 
to know. If it breaks, then a log of it's debug information will be very 
useful.

There's still quite a lot of work to be done, but so far things are 
looking pretty good, and I'm hoping there's a few interested parties here.

Tom Parker