Comments on: Last.FM PHP Image Screen Scraper

By: nick

nick — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:31:58 +0000

You know what, Sara, I think you might be a bot … or someone paid to comment on screen-scraper related posts. If you’re a bot, you’re an impressive one, if you’re a paid employee, you have moxie, and if you just really like extractingdata.com for their screen-scraping offerings and felt the need to comment about them here … then I think you might be a little weird.

In any case, I’m letting the comment stand.

By: Sara

Sara — Tue, 27 Oct 2009 20:15:18 +0000

Interesting point on screen scrapers, I use python for simple html screen scrapers, but for larger projects i used extractingdata.com http://www.extractingdata.com/screen%20scraper.htm which worked great, they build custom screen scrapers and data extracting programs

By: nick

nick — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 16:28:38 +0000

Hi Hendrik,

Sorry for the delayed response. You just asked a mouthful there, heh. The script I wrote is very simple and just scrapes the images right off the artist page. As far as going further with it and building more integration with the Last.FM API, the sky’s the limit.

It’ll just take a little more familiarity on your part with the different systems (WordPress/Last.FM) to get that sort of thing working. I’d be more than happy to help out.

By: Hendrik

Hendrik — Wed, 02 Sep 2009 13:57:00 +0000

hey nick,
thx for the great plugin.
i’d like to know how i can integrate that plugin into wordpress and how i can rate the artist via custom field in a post.
i’d need that for the band and review archive.

thanx
hendrik

By: samz

samz — Sun, 07 Sep 2008 04:46:01 +0000

Hi Nick

Thanks a lot for writing such an cool short script to achieve this simple task. I have an array of few artists, I tried your script to bring me the image urls with the following code,

$artists = array (‘cher’, ‘madonna’, ‘backstreet boys’, ‘boyzone’ , ‘britney spears’);

foreach($artists as $artist){
$images = $lastfm->getArtistImages($artist);
echo $images ,”";
}

but the above code took around 30 seconds to complete the operation which is I think not feasible at all. I want to know that is there any way to load all artists’ images in a single request?

Thanks