Martin
Joined: 19 Apr 2011
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 Posted: Sat Apr 30, 2011 12:03 pm Post subject: Accessing Yellow Pages |
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Hi, I am currently developing a software that, among other things, can record internet streams. I would like to integrate the IceCast yellow pages in order to have an up to date list of streams. I used to parse the file at <http://dir.xiph.org/yp.xml>. This used to work fine, but a few months ago it started to be limited to 1000 streams, which is far from the 5000 or so that are listed at <http://dir.xiph.org/>.
My understanding from other threads on this forum is that this is due mostly to bandwidth limitations. I do not mind hosting a database on my own server and writing a script that pulls data from <http://dir.xiph.org/> only once a day, say. The question is whether there is a supported way to do this? Obviously, I could pull the html and parse that, but this would be a horrible hack that breaks as soon as you make any changes to the layout...
An alternative would be to use the ShoutCast listing instead, but their API requires a developer key and, for some reason I cannot fathom, they have stopped accepting new developers to their programme. So I am kind of stuck.... Any ideas? Thanks a lot in advance,
Martin |
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