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

["John H." <mistamaila gmail com>]

hmm, so can you actually use drivel with it yet?


On 5/13/06, Tom Parker <palfrey tevp net> wrote:
> 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
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