I would like to use GraceNote to generate play-lists which contain songs likely to appeal to, or, at least, be known to, residents of a given country. E.G, Japan, Korea, Turkey, Brazil, France ...
They don't necessarily have to be in the local language, as I don't think that I can do that with GraceNote (can I ?), but local artists would be nice. Is there any way, for instance, to query and generate a playlist using artist origin?
I realize that something like Gangnam Style might be known in most countries ;-) and that play-list generation is inexact when used this way, but I would be happy with a 70 or 80% "I know that song" reaction.
Can it be done? If so, how? #cweichen, can you help?
It seems likely you are referring the the Rhythm API. As you probably can see from the function definition, you cannot create a playlist using 'ARTIST_ORIGIN'.
The closest thing I can think of is creating a playlist (aka radio station) using on a popular song in the given country as a seed.
You may try configuring the 'focus_similarity' value to get a wider variety of songs. This is just a suggestion and I am not sure if this will get you what your looking for.
*Pygn currently does not support 'focus_similarity' configuration but it should not be too difficult to add yourself.
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Im trying our different flight api's from sabre, I understand from reading the data Im getting back is limited in development but Im not sure if it really can be THAT limited or its me doing something wrong.
1: InstaFlights Search
First I use the citypairs lookup to show city pairs, then use them for the instasearch,
The problem is unlike I use NY or London (there were 2 other cities working fine), for almost ALL other cities, Im getting no response.
I know data is limited but since the citypairs api already returns VERY limited data, but is it really THAT limited? Feeling like I must be doing something wrong because I cannot image, that api to work (in dev) only for 3 cities on 3 different dates :-/
destination api
here I use first the supported cities api, then use results to use the multi airports api, then use that for destination api.
Again, same here, only 2/3 cities actually work. Since in the destination api, UNLIKE the instaflights api, the changes of 'matches' are higher as any destination could be shown for the picked origin. HERE AGAIN almost no results, BUT for about 3 cities.
If anyone who has some experience with sabre, could help out it would be great- just trying to figure out if its me whos using it wrong or no. Thanks!
Can you please provide the city pairs that seem to be failing for you? I just did a test of both APIs (InstaFlights and DestinationFinder) and was able to obtain results with the city pairs provided there. I changed the point of sale to FR and obtained PAR-ATH, and that worked. Also worked with ABE-MCO which is the first city pair I obtain when using POS US.
The testing environment for this API but you should be not limited to just three cities.
Is there a way to add a feed or something to a website to show the upcoming football games (who's playing and at what time)?
I was thinking something like this: http://www.bbc.com/sport/football/fixtures
I think they have an RSS feed but I can't find how to utilise it. Is this even the right thing? I've never used any sort of feeds before.
I have found this: market.mashape.com/heisenbug/champions-league-live-scores I'm not sure if it displays the upcoming matches or not, but it's the closest thing I've found. Most of the sports APIs I've found seem to charge quite a lot per month to use. This one has a free version, but I don't fully understand it. It says 50 free per month, but 50 free what? Requests? If so, is it one 'request' per update (which is every 10mins with this plan)? Then it would only last just over 8hrs??? market.mashape.com/heisenbug/champions-league-live-scores/
Thanks
I did found two webpages which supplies the information you need. Since you didn't add source code, I think this answer will suit better for you.
First, enter to ScoresPro and pick any of the available sports rss feeds.
For this example I select Soccer.
Later, enter to Feedwind, paste the feed URL and press ENTER.
This is the result.
I have a CSV list of university names around the world - about 13,000 university names. I'm looking for a way to pull the addresses of these universities. Google Maps API / Google Places API looks promising, but requires lat/long to map the locations.
End game is to mark to each school as a 1 if the school is in the US, and 0 if the school is outside of the US.
Any thoughts on how to search these colleges in maps and pull out the addresses - or at least the country?
Example:
is there nothing else in the csv, only the names? that's going to make it hard, i'd bet the names aren't always unique in the world.
you could write something that had different passes at biting the apple - for instance, if the university has a state name in it, check those off as 1's - then find another logic to use to take "another bit" until the apple is gone.
On top of #WEBjuju's answer, since you only want to mark if the school is in US, or outside of US, you can use the "country" type in Place Types in the Google Places API, by setting the option as country='us'.
https://developers.google.com/places/supported_types?csw=1#table2
You may also want to cross check with this list of schools.
https://www.4icu.org/reviews/index2.htm
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lists_of_universities_and_colleges_by_country
I may start working on a project very similar to Hipmunk.com, where it pulls the hotel cost information by calling different APIs (like expedia, orbitz, travelocity, hotels.com etc)
I did some research on this, but I am not able to find any unique hotel id or any field to match the hotels between several API's. Anyone have experience on how can to compare the hotel from expedia with orbitz or travelcity etc?
Thanks
EDIT: Google also doing the same thing http://www.google.com/hotelfinder/
From what I have seen of GDS systems, and these API's there is rarely a unique identifier between systems for e.g. hotels
Airports, airlines and countries have unique ISO identifiers: http://www.iso-code.com/airports.2.html
I would guess you are going to have to have your own internal mapping to identify and disambiguate the properties.
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When you get started with hotel APIs, the choice of free ones isn't really that big, see e.g. here for an overview.
The most extensive and accessible one is Expedia's EAN http://developer.ean.com/ which includes Sabre and Venere with unique IDs but still each structured differently.
That is, you are looking into different database tables.
You do get several identifies such as Name, Address, and coordinates, which can serve for unique identification, assuming they are free of errors. Which is an assumption.
Have you used pipes.yahoo.com to quickly and easily do... anything? I've recently created a quick mashup of StackOverflow tags (via rss) so that I can browse through new questions in fields I like to follow.
This has been around for some time, but I've just recently revisited it and I'm completely impressed with it's ease of use. It's almost to the point where I could set up a pipe and then give a client privileges to go in and edit feed sources... and I didn't have to write more than a few lines of code.
So, what other practical uses can you think of for pipes?
It's nice for aggregating feeds, yes, but the other handy thing to do is filtering the feeds. A while back, I created a feed for Digg (before Digg fell into the Fark pit of dispair). I didn't care about the overwhelming Apple and Ubuntu news, so I filtered those keywords out of Technology, which I then combined with Science and World & Business feeds.
Anyway, you can do a lot more than just combine things. If you wanted to be smart about it, you could set up per-subfeed and whole-feed filters to give granular or over-arching filtering abilities as the news changes and you get bored with one topic or another.
The one thing I have really used Y! Pipes for (rather than just playing around with it) is to clean up item titles, merge and finally de-dupe the feeds I got from querying multiple blog search engines with the same search term. This is something I’ve done in several very different contexts, eg. for my own ego surfing, in another case for the planet site set up by some conference’s organisers to keep an eye on their conference’s buzz, etc. Highly recommended.
You can do tons of things with pipes. For example for sites like digg or reddit, you can make one to bypass the site and go directly to the linked article (rewriting the RSS).
I like also to filter webcomics' feeds to keep just the comics, and then mix them all in only one feed
I've taken the liberty of copying your pipe and rearranging it a bit so that it's easier to add and remove tags:
Yahoo Pipe: StackOverflow Merge Tags
Tags are now listed in a string builder, so to add a tag you just have to hit the + button on the string builder and type in the tag preceded by a slash.
Well, pipes are real fast and useful.
Other effective uses might be:
1) combine many feeds into one, then sort, filter and translate it.
2) geocode your favorite feeds and browse the items on an interactive map.
3) power widgets/badges on your web site.
4) grab the output of any Pipes as RSS, JSON, KML, and other formats.
This is by no means a comprehensive list.
One of my favorite things to do with Yahoo! Pipes is to aggregate multiple craigslist feeds into a single feed. You can make a feed out of any category or search criteria on craigslist. I live in a university town and am always on the lookout for tickets to sporting events, for example. I have a half-dozen craigslist searches all being combined into a single feed via Yahoo! Pipes. This works a lot better for me than simply monitoring the entire "Tickets" category; filters out most of the tickets I am not interested in. Yes, this is another aggregating feeds example, but the craigslist usage is quite valuable with the ability to aggregate feeds that are themselves based upon searches.
I've used Pipes to translate blogs into English. I would have liked to use it to fetch the full text for blogs which only provide a summary of the content in the feed, but unfortunately they don't provide any input which fetches the content from a parameterizable source :-(.
Just stumbled on this while looking for ways to connect Excel to Pipes. A bit necromancer-ish, but here goes.
One thing I've done, is take an HTML page (science data) which has links to tons of CSV files for a bunch of Army Corps measurement stations. Each station has a big table of datafiles, all organized individually by month and year. I use YQL to parse out and organize the links to the individual CSV files in a way that Pipes can read them. Then, I use that as input into a Pipe, which has a user input for "Station" and "Date."
Using this, I can go to the Pipes page, type in those values and get the values only for a specific station and date, rather than have to find the station on a website, find the year and month in a big table, click the link, open the CSV file, and find the values for a day within that month's worth of data. I can even change the pipe to specify the hour, and the parameter, and then get a single value returned.
Now, I wish I could figure out how to program Excel so that I can use "=yahoo_function(station, datetime)" to place that value automatically into a cell give the values of other columns!