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How to consume myspace events and then use that data to feed a website
29.04.2010. 11:01
For the artist management project we are currently working on one of the requirements was to have gigs and events that were currently up to date. One issue is that having to update this data is duplicating what is already held (and readily maintained) on other sites, the foremost being myspace (especially since they announced their
new events features).
After some scouring the interweb it seemed that there wasn't yet a dedicated Myspace API. We found a couple of good hosted solutions (
http://makedatamakesense.com/myspace/event/
and
http://myspace.jochemschutte.nl/
), but although these looked reliable we needed to be able to guarantee that in the future the service we were to use would not simply disappear and so really have to write our own!
We found the following article on codersource which details how to call upon a webpage and then to
analyse and store the contents of what has been returned. This coupled with the very helpful regular expression on the
MakeDataMakeSense page means that we should be able to cobble something together!
Will update with progress!
