I've found related questions (like this one), but nothing that directly answers my question: I need a direct way to turn artist name and track name into a spotify link. Just like spotify does for the local file list (some are links, some are not, I assume because spotify doesn't have those tracks.
How can I turn something like artist:'Francolin' and track name:'Hospital Song' into a Spotify uri without searching for it (which will return multiple results, and I don't know which one to use). How does the Spotify local files list do it?
The local files list in the Spotify client makes URLs like this:
spotify:local:Coldplay:Mylo+Xyloto:Paradise:277 (spotify:local:ARTIST:ALBUM:TRACK:LENGTH_IN_SECONDS). You can verify this by right-clicking a local file in your list that hasn't been linked to a Spotify track and choosing "Copy Spotify URI".
When playing the track, the client resolves it without using the backend at all - it searches its own local list of known files and plays whichever matches it closest.
When linking to a "real" Spotify track, the client asks the backend to do the dirty work. There isn't a web API for this (it's in libSpotify though), but basically the backend does a few heuristics to the data* then chooses the track that matches the given data (including length) the closest.
*Basically, the track metadata is stripped to a simpler form when searching, and the album has less weighting since an artist may release the same track on multiple albums.
I ran into the same problem as you but I don't think there's a direct way to convert it. Instead I just run for a search with "artist:'$artist' title:'$title'", which should be very accurate, and just use the first result in the array of results.
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I am trying to collect some data for a pet study. I would be collecting some metadata on the video suggestions based on a search. I was wondering if it is possible to do the following using the Youtube API(python or R) :
Input a search keyword and get the results
Choose one of the videos randomly and see the list of video suggestions.
Choose one of the suggested videos randomly.
Repeat this "n" times.
Is there a way to emulate this entire process? I think web-scraping can be an option but I am not really sure, how I would go about it. So if there are nay pointers that would be amazing and get me started.
Also, Is it possible to have no history, as in an option to erase all the cookies for the previous attempt(Steps 1 through 4) and start afresh? (More like an option to have this in Incognito Mode)
TIA for your suggestions.
AFAIK Google tracks the computer you are using in such a way that you can't escape their filter bubble. Even through Tor, YouTube might prefer some content related to the exit node IP location (and so language) or any previous YouTube search done by you (through this exit node) or another user of the end node or any computer using the same IP as the exit node...
The YouTube Data API v3 has a possibility to retrieve suggestions thanks to part=suggestions with Videos: list by authenticating with OAuth (so results might not be neutral). You can get the initial videos thanks to Search: list thanks to q filter. Web-scraping is also doable to be less tracked, my open-source YouTube operational API is able to web-scrape search results for instance.
Note that a French person claims having achieved to have done such a neutral French YouTube suggestions graph.
Rookie S3 user here looking to troubleshoot a problem I encountered while helping some friends with their business. Their business revolves around selling courses and the program they use is WooCommerce and they attach course files through WordPress. The way these courses work is that there is a live video call where people like to join in so the product on WooCommerce initially holds the details for the upcoming call and afterward additional audio and transcripts are added to the product for sale. The problem is that this means people who had bought the course prior to this call would not receive these files unless permission to see them was manually given. As this is redundant and troublesome, my thought was to change the purchase to instead give a link which goes into an Amazon S3 bucket labeled courses and give them access to a specific folder within it. Ideally, this link would let them see new files lives and furthermore would limit the size of data on the website which is hosted on a dedicated server (save some $$$ on hosting fees, 2 birds 1 stone) The problem however is that since I am a complete novice to this style of coding, I am unsure of how to do this although I do think it is possible given an answer is already out there or if I can bull and jam my way through a section of code. The reason I am looking to sort out courses as folders inside a bucket instead of individual buckets is that the number of courses the website currently has is nearing 200 and if an effort was made to change those then it would be well over the 100 bucket limit in addition to being an exercise in repetition. Any advice or help would be greatly appreciated, thanks!
If I understand you correctly, you want to host content on S3, but want to achieve some degree of access control on that content.
The most straightforward way to do this, the one that involves minimal S3 integration, is to presign an S3 url for the user. the presigned url would be good for a limited time and could be generated directly before redirecting the user to that URL by your wordpress site, which would in turn hold aws access credentials.
https://docs.amazonaws.cn/zh_cn/aws-sdk-php/guide/latest/service/s3-presigned-url.html eplains more about this from a php perspective, which I'm guessing is the right lens for you.
This allows some modicum of access control ( the users can still share the document after they've accessed it, but at least it's not just public).
If you don't need access control, you can make the s3 object public and omit the signing altogether.
I am looking to create a website that generates content depending on your city location. The best Example I found was Craigslit.They generate a web domain name like https://yourcity.craigslist.org/ when you either click on the city or it locates where you are. I was just wondering if I could get some help on how to build something like that.
The web pages are created using a template that doesn't change, populated with data that is selected from a database server, using your location to lookup appropriate items.
The subdomain (your city) is usually defined in the DNS record, just like www. There would be an entry for chicago.craigslist.org, for example.
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If you're asking how they know where you are, they can take a guess based on your IP address, however this isn't very reliable. Google does this also, when getting you search results that could be localized.
So yeah, it is expected of you to type some stuff into google to (try) find your answer (like detect city from javascript will bring up a lot of results for your problem.)
But yeah you would use a service like https://ipstack.com/ to detect where you live, depending on where you live the accuracy increases. (EU has some rules and regulations that make it a lot less accurate than if you would be living in the US)
Once you have a database with content - For example craigslist has a database of second hand items sold by people from all over. When you connect to craigslist they ask a service where your request came from - then use some filter function based on your location to match the results.
Good luck
Your IP address can be used to make an educated guess as to where you are, but it's not very accurate. When providing you with search results that might be localised, Google also does this.To know more about creating a website like craigslist follow here
https://www.yarddiant.com/blog/classifieds/how-to-build-a-website-like-craigslist.html
I am using link to generate deep linking. I am using their public API's endpoint to generate links.
Here is their endpoint: https://api.branch.io/v1/url
I append my branch key and data that I need to associate in this link. Everything is working fine but I need to expire this link within one hour.
Reading up here: https://github.com/BranchMetrics/branch-deep-linking-public-api#creating-a-deep-linking-url
I added "duration" key also, but it didnt expire the link.
It will be great if anyone could help me in figuring out how to expire branch.io link.
Alex from Branch.io here: the duration parameter is used for something different, so it's not going to be able to do what you want. We don't have a built-in feature to expire links, but you could create something close to it yourself:
Add a custom link parameter containing a timestamp for when the link was created.
Check for that timestamp when handling the link at the destination, and do something different if it is more than an hour old. I'm guessing this would be inside your app, and also on whatever fallback URL you have specified for when the app isn't installed or the user is on desktop.
Mail from branch.io support team suggested this answer as below:
If you found out about the $exp_date parameter from here then the
parameters in that list are only used for iOS Spotlight Indexing but
will be used by Branch in the future. A better solution than
utilizing $exp_date is to code logic into your client to determine
what to do with link data based on date. This way, your deep links
will always work and always carry data through, and you won't have to
worry about users clicking empty links.
This way, you would include date as an extra meta key/value pair, and
examine this date in your client when receiving link params to
determine if you want to honor the link's contents or not.
google has an API for downloading search suggestions:
https://www.google.com/support/enterprise/static/gsa/docs/admin/70/gsa_doc_set/xml_reference/query_suggestion.html
unfortunately, as far as i can tell, these results are specific to your location. for an analysis, i would like to be able to define the city/location that google thinks it is making the suggestion to. here's what happens when i scrape from dar es salaam, tanzania:
http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?client=firefox&q=insurance
["insurance",["insurance","insurance companies in tanzania","insurance group of tanzania","insurance principles","insurance act","insurance policy","insurance act tanzania","insurance act 2009","insurance definition","insurance industry in tanzania"]]
i understand that a vpn would partially solve this issue, but only by giving me a different location and not lots of locations. is there a reasonable way to replicate this sort of thing quickly and easily from, say, the 100 largest cities in the united states?
confirmation that results differ within the usa-
thanks!
Google will use your IP and your location history (if turned on) to determine your location.
To be able to go around it, you can spoof your IP while logged off your google account (but I don't know if google will consider it a trial of hacking no matter what your intentions are).
Another way is to use Tor browser (even though it is not it's original purpose). You can configure tor to exit from a certain country using the Exitnode parameter in the torrc config file
As found in the docs:
ExitNodes node,node,…
A list of identity fingerprints, country codes, and address patterns of nodes to use as exit node
But if you want a fast way to do it, I don't think that's possible since google wants to know the real location of the users and have put a lot of effort into making such tricks fail.
The hl param for interface language changes the search results, but I can't tell if it's actually changing the location. For example:
http://suggestqueries.google.com/complete/search?client=chrome&q=why&hl=FR
Here's an example with 5 different values of hl:
http://jsbin.com/tusacufaza/edit?js,output