Creating my first audio plugin: Melodice integration

[Eis-T]

Search: https://melodice.org/api/autocomplete/?term=qwirkle

Return JSON with an id.

https://melodice.org/playlist/qwirkle-2006/

playlist/$id seems to return the HTML. In there you would find the songs
array as outlined in my previous message. As long as they don't change
that interface this should be pretty easy to parse :-). Good luck!

[Eis-T]

Creating my first audio plugin: Melodice integration

Hi everyone,

I often use platforms like bandcamp, youtube and last.fm on my squeezebox devices and I love how well these integrations run. There's a website that I'd like to built such an integration for: Melodice. This website has a database of boardgames linked to youtube playlists and has been a staple of my weekly game nights. I'd love to have access to it from my squeezebox. Functionally all the plugin needs is a search box linked to their database and the ability to play youtube videos. But how do I go about setting something like that up? This is what I've gathered so far:

wiki has a page builder template that functions as a rough outline of how a plugin is structured. I think I understand about 50% of it (beginner coder)

reacts to id="search-input"
button id="search-btn" type="submit"

my questions to you is:
- where do I start?
- how much trouble is it to make an integration like this for a beginner like me? is it worth it?
- do I need to contact the makers of this site ask them for an API? again: very new to all this

Thanks for all the help!

[Eis-T]

https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.p...inBuilder.html is what I intend to use as the basis

This is the site, its very basic so I hope that makes it easier to work with https://melodice.org

[mherger]

Creating my first audio plugin: Melodiceintegration

> https://wiki.slimdevices.com/index.p...inBuilder.html is what I
> intend to use as the basis

Unfortunately this quite a bit dated. I'd rather start based on
Slim::Plugin::OPMLBased. This base class provides easy ways to create
the navigation menus. But you'll have to learn from code doing so...

The good news is there already is a Youtube plugin which should handle
the hard part of getting playback of Youtube videos. From what I read
this is painful. So be happy you don't have to deal with it :-).

All you might have to do is get the playlist data from melodice, then
convert it into something the YT plugin understands (might be URLs like
youtube://some-identifier), and queue up those tracks.

> This is the site, its very basic so I hope that makes it easier to work
> with https://melodice.org

I'd ask them whether they have an API. Because parsing HTML is ugly and
prone to errors. Though they seem to include the required data as a
JavaScript object in the code. Eg. I found this for "qwirkle":

songs = [
{
'iid': '39676',
'eid': 'eEYDnsLUHCA',
'title': 'Though the Stars Still Stay Out',
},{
'iid': '10079',
'eid': 'toXNVbvFXyk',
'title': '"Resonant Chamber" - Animusic.com',
},{
'iid': '10082',
'eid': 'M6r4pAqOBDY',
'title': 'Animusic HD - Fiber Bundles (1080p)',
},{
'iid': '10081',
'eid': 'YOQJxRCCpw8',
'title': 'Animusic HD- Pogo Sticks (1080p)',
},{
'iid': '10084',
'eid': 'Cgt4DEBQy50',
'title': 'Animusic - Aqua Harp',
},{
'iid': '10085',
'eid': 'OROAGNbsikQ',
'title': 'Animusic - Acoustic Curves',
},{
'iid': '10080',
'eid': 'hyCIpKAIFyo',
'title': '"Pipe Dream" - Animusic.com',
},
];

But as I said: an API would be much better and robust to use.

[Eis-T]

Thanks for the advice! I'll get in contact with them and see what they've got.

[Eis-T]

Already got a reply from melodice: they unfortunately have no API. They recommeded I "parse the HTML".
So that's the plan: figure out how to parse this thing into my squeezebox

[Paul Webster]

For the initial request you will also have to set a HTTP header
"X-Requested-With: XMLHttpRequest"
otherwise they will respond with "fail".