Re: [Rhythmbox-devel] libunrest

[Matt Novenstern <fisxoj gmail com>]

On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 00:29 +0100, Peter Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-08-21 at 16:04 -0400, Matt Novenstern wrote:
> > Hello all,
> >
> > 	I've been trolling through some rb bugs, and I noticed that there is no
> > library for interfacing with RESTful services like the current
> > implementations of last.fm, libre.fm, and discogs.com.  So, I started
> > writing one, which is currently at http://gitorious.org/libunrest and
> > works to a certain degree (there's a working lastfm demo in the examples
> > dir, you need to run it as LD_PRELOAD=../src/libunrest.so) and I'm
> > working on getting discogs.com to work, which involves decoding gzipped
> > http responses.  I've been trying to use zlib, which is supposed to be
> > able to infalte gzipped data, but, I cannot for the life of me get it to
> > work.  It seems to not like having a gzip header.  If anyone can help me
> > fix that, there should be nothing stopping anyone from adding any number
> > of web services to rhythmbox (and other programs).
> 
> Moblin actually also has a librest that has support for various social
> network protocols (lastfm/twitter/myspace/flickr and possibly
> facebook) and oauth that might be worthwhile looking at using rather
> than reinvesting the wheel. Its used for their mojito social network
> aggregator.
> 
> Useful links.
> http://moblin.org/projects/librest
> http://git.moblin.org/cgit.cgi/librest/
> 
> Peter
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I saw that, but it has specific code for most of those sites, and I
wanted something that was a more general solution.

-Matt