I am trying to create a windows 8 app for a particular band who have stored their songs on
Reverbation and soundcloud. My problem is that i dont know how to get those contents from these sites...I tried creating an rss feed using feedburner but that failed. Is there any way where i can get the feed or the data for my app.
SoundCloud has a well documented API. You can check yourself if the functionality you require is available.
ReverbNation on the other hand doesn't seem to have a public API available at the moment. There's only an API link in the page footer which opens a dialog for subscribing to any news regarding that via email.
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LinkedIn has a /share API endpoint which accepts a link and a message. The link is afterwards expanded to an OpenGraph card and that gives you a way to stick an image preview in there, but it seems there's no other way to upload an image/picture to LinkedIn feed like you can do in the web app itself.
Is there a way, private API, undocumented endpoint or some other way to do that?
Creating a rich media share is done in two steps. First, the media is uploaded to LinkedIn's media platform. Then, a personal or organization share referencing that media is created.
This URL might be help you.
https://developer.linkedin.com/docs/guide/v2/shares/rich-media-shares#upload
No. You need to give us the URL and we'll scrape it (or pull it from our cache).
I was wondering if it was possible to detect what song a user is listening to from his/her current active device via the spotify web api.
Thanks.
I know this is an old question, but there is a new beta API endpoint available that supplies this information. It does have some bugs that I've noticed though.
Stations only: If you change stations, you have to restart Spotify to get the API endpoint to update and continue updating.
According to bug reports, it lags behind 20 to 30 minutes at random. I haven't had that problem, so it may be fixed.
GET https://api.spotify.com/v1/me/player/currently-playing
Docs: https://developer.spotify.com/web-api/get-the-users-currently-playing-track/
This is not possible using the web API. If you're writing a Mac app, you can use the Spotify Desktop Client's AppleScript API to access the current track. If the user is scribbling to Last.fm, you can use Last.fm's APIs. Otherwise, this data is not accessible.
I haven't see anywhere how to get a song to the vb.net
I wanted create a player after pasting a soundcloud link that would play it
Anyone can help?
SoundCloud exposes an API you can use to leverage your VB.NET application. It's pretty easy to get up and running with. You can read more about it here.
All you have to do is make a HTTP request to the SoundCloud API which will process your request and return some JSON that will contain the information you requested.
I happen know of a guy who developed an application called SoundCloud Desktop using VB.NET.
The source code is not available for free but he was kind enough to release a VB.NET wrapper for the SoundCloud API.
Personally, I have not used it but it should be simple enough to get it working.
SoundCloud VB.NET Wrapper on Pastebin
VB.NET HTTP Wrapper on Pastebin (you need this too!)
Here's a screen shot of SoundCloud desktop:
Using a SoundCloud API wrapper written in .NET will provide the quickest route to accessing the functionality you're after, for example:
SoundCloud.Api.Net
Has anyone found a way to retrieve the activity feed on Steam for a specific user to post on a website similar to tweets? I'm adding an activity feed to my website, but really the only thing I'm most active in is Steam, so it will get stale pretty quickly without Steam in there. I've looked at the web API, but it doesn't specify if I can grab my full feed and post it or if I can just grab certain stats for specific games or not. I've tried to find an RSS feed for my activity but had no luck so far, that would definitely be the preferable format.
I've just looked at this and you can't grab the web feed directly from the site on RSS or JSON. The Web API is meant for developers of Steam applications so that they can get at the player information. For that, you need an API Key, which is provided by Steam. It is not a casual web interface like you might find on Google.
The nasty solution is to HTML scrape the page. I used Yahoo! Pipes to scrape the page (and automatically update) but ultimately decided that was entirely too dirty as it assumes that the Steam pages won't change.
A bit too late, but I'm also searching for this kind of RSS feed. I think I will end up creating a RSS bot to parse the AJAX response used to fetch the activity feed:
http://steamcommunity.com/id/[your username]/ajaxgetusernews
This URL doesn't work out of the box, I think we have to pass some cookies to get access to this page to make Steam think the bot is logged in as a normal user. It returns the HTML markup used to render the activity feed, and a URL to fetch the next batch of activities.
Be advised that this HTML markup is hard to parse because it is inconsistent.
I am creating a website using the twitter API that grabs users profile pictures quite often and am hitting API limits in development. Does twitter delete past profile pictures? I would be looking to just store the url and update there profile picture url every time they login.
Historically no but recently I've noticed old Twitter avatars sticking around longer. You might try something like I've laid out on my blog. The basic premis is you bind a callback to error event on the image with JavaScript. When it triggers you dynamically load the current image for the user and fetch the new URL on the backend.