parse website for "playing now" using webradio/sirius

[ryanmc]

I dont know how much interest their would be for this, i dont know that theres many users using it but id like to be able to see "playing now" info for sirius in webradio. on this link it shows playing now and past played bunch of songs the link has the channel number in it so substituting "channel=27" for whatever channel listening to gives info for each different channel. http://www.dogstarradio.com/search_playl...ur=&eampm=

theres also other ways of displaying the data from that website one page puts playing now for all channels on one page
http://www.dogstarradio.com/now_playing.php

theres also rss feeds i think this is better than scraping at least i could read them to my lcd but thats only in my pc
if any developers would like to do it i could offer a sirius online subscription for some time. im using webradio and siriusstreamer to play sirius.
Ryan

[mvallevand]

This seems easy enough to scrape. If Dave72 confirms that this matches the Sirius Canadian feed I will do this.

I should be able to test on CBC3 which has a web stream without an account.

Martin

[Dave72]

I was monitoring the stream from the dogstar website with ethereal .. the updates come thru in the clear in xml format , referring to the channel number and then its artist/etc info. It seems to be the same for the US and Cdn versions.. afaik the Cdn sub is just a subset of the US sub (as in, the US subs get all the cdn channels, but not visa-versa). So, a channel not available on my sirius sub would not appear at my SiriusStreamer .. and then it would not be available to call up in the temporary db/etc

So.. I 'think' it should work.

[mvallevand]

Ok let's continue this "wishlist" here http://forums.nextpvr.com/showthread.php...st&t=45020 I've got a beta uploaded now.

Martin