I’m a retired Unix sysadmin. Over the years I’ve built things in COBOL, FORTAN, C, perl, rexx, PHP, visual basic, various Unix shells and maybe others. Nothing has been a real “application” - mostly just utilities to help me get things done.
Now that I’m retired, and it’s cold outside, I’m curious to try some more coding - and I have an idea.
The music communities here seem to post links to YouTube. I generally use Lemmy on my phone but don’t use YouTube, or listen to music, on my phone if I can help it. I’d like to scrape a music community here and add the songs posted to a playlist in my musicbrainz account.
Does that sound like a reasonable learner project? Any suggestions for language and libraries appreciated. My preferred IDE is vim on bash and I have a home server running Linux where this could run as a daemon, or be scheduled.
I’m going to assume you’re going to go ahead with the idea. You could make use of the fact that every lemmy based community has an RSS feed.
Yes, I’m working on it now. Struggling with basic stuff like pulling values out of the json returned by the API when I ask for a list of posts. Python really does not click for me, but I’m determined, for now, to keep at it. An the RSS feed seems like a much easier (than what…?) way to just get new posts with each run - thank you!
I don’t like Python either. But I use it because it’s widely used because many others find it easy to learn and work with (I guess people like us think a bit differently). Maybe you should forge ahead with PHP (it’s having a mini resurgence in popularity).
If you’re sticking with Python, make sure you use the built in json module. If you need a plain English tutorial, this tutorial on the json module is solid. If you want some real time help you can always chat in the Python Matrix Room (#python:matrix.org).
Well Python doesn’t like your either, Eric! 🐍
We’ve come to an understanding where we can be civil with each other.