My Event Guide (3 Viewers)

[kiwijunglist]

Re: Event Finder

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Re: Event Finder

My Plugin to scrape NZ based gig/event listings then display in useful format

I like it NOT...!

MY Event Guide

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[captcol]

My plugin to scrap NZ based gig/event listings then display in useful format - personal fav, although needs to mention - created by a team of people half of which had no idea what was going on and only stumbled onto the project by accident and then hid in the corner.

My media portal has just pooed itself with the unknown error of death so will be busy the next couple of nights fixing that

 

[Quarter]

My plugin to scrap NZ based gig/event listings then display in useful format - personal fav, although needs to mention - created by a team of people half of which had no idea what was going on and only stumbled onto the project by accident and then hid in the corner.

My media portal has just pooed itself with the unknown error of death so will be busy the next couple of nights fixing that

Don't worry if you can't keep up there will soon be another project.

 

[sa_ddam213]

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[kiwijunglist]

I've created a public dropbox folder for the my event guide project.

For those of you who don't know what dropbox is then view this youtube video
YouTube - What is Dropbox?

Basically it is a folder on your computer that is automatically synched with the internet.
You can have the folder present on multiple computers and they will all automatically synch with each other.
You get between 2-8GB for free account.

I am creating a public folder in my dropbox that everyone in the project can synch files with.
Try not to create large files (ie > 25mb in the project folder, unless it is really necessary)

So please PM me your email addresses, I will send you dropbox invitations (we both get extra 250mb storage for each invite)
I will also give you an email invitation link for read/write access for the project's dropbox.

Note: If you change the files in the dropbox folder then it will change on all computers.

Regards
Kiwi

PS. Dropbox is amazing, for those of you not using it, well you should use it because it's incredibly useful and simple to use.

 

[kiwijunglist]

Hi sa_ddam213

I had further think about navigation in the main screen of the event guide.

I think it's best if we have the option to display 1 day @ a time otherwise the list will be incredibly long. Alternatively we could have a hybrid system.

Hybrid Version
Initial screen displays all the events (multiple days) in one long scrollable list at the top of the screen it says "All dates"
Hit the right arrow, top text changes to "Monday" (today) and all mondays events are displayed
Hit right arrow again, top text changes to "Tuesday" (tomomorrow) and all tuesdays lists are displayed
Hit right arrow again, top text changes to "Wednesday" (Day+2) and all wednesdays events are listed
etc.etc... you can press the left arrow to go back a day, if you press left arrow while displaying 'today' then it will display the "all dates" list.

Nonhybrid version
as above just without the "all dates" list.

Also - during navigation if the user hits the right arrow and the next day has no events listed, then instead of showing an empty list for that day it jumps to the next available date that has gigs.


Also I am worried that if we display a list with "all dates" the list will be too long and might take to long to load, it's best if we can keep the guide 'snappy'
Alternatively when you first enter the guide it will display todays list only, and then if the user wants to see "all dates" he hits the left arrow.

Your thoughts?
Kiwi

 

[sa_ddam213]

Hey Kiwi,

I agree one list will be very long, But will use one list at first as we can figure out our sort methods after we have a working scraper/plugin.

Scraper is coming along well, basicly it will read all tags on the HTML and read from a config.xml to decide what tags we want, that way people can write their own scripts for websites, Obviously this is not the fastest approach but we only need to update gig info once to twice a day (facebook etc can be updated each time plugin is opened) .

 

[kiwijunglist]

ok, sounds good. can we please have the following info scraped

eventfinder - main list

1. Title
2. Venue
3. Location (aka City)
4. Date (obviously convert 'today' / 'tomorrow' to a proper date)
5. Genre (sometimes this field will actually be blank, that is ok, be careful not to scrape the "more dates" text)
6. Thumbnail url (or) DL thumbnail image

eventfinder - individual event (this will be scraped on demand when you click on an event in the guide)

7. Multidate (YES/NO) ; sorry, but this should actually be scraped from main list instead. look for text string "- more dates"
8. Multidates array with all the dates if multiple, if only 1 date then value is same as #4.
9. Address
10. Price
11. Venue URL
12. More info website URL
13. Long Description
14. Event URL (the url of this page we have scraped)

We don't have to necessarily have to use all these fields, but i feel that all these fields would be useful for the concept of the main screen which i will redo and add to dropbox when i have time. We might never use the url, but future mediaportal version should have ability to call a plugin with specific arguments, so in the future might be able to call a browser plugin with the website url.

 

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I think this plugin will be on hold for awhile since the Christchurch earthquake. :sorry: