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http://forum.xbmc.org/showthread.php?tid=38378

i have considered it but i do not feel comfortable scraping a site that provides open api's. that being said, anyone else is ofc free to do it

Hi spiff!

I've already tried to begin with the last.fm scrapper. But i have some problems understanding how the flows and interaction between the scrapper and xbmc works...

I started modifying your allmusic scrapper. Just to have something to begin with..

I would like to fully understand i the flow.

First, the scrapper create the albumsearchurl, i maganaged to get that working... after a working url has been created xbmc makes the request to it and then the regexp to parse the resuts. What follows is what i don't fully understand, once i got the basic information, album title, and url.. how the request for the album information url is done. I never get a list of albums or anything.

This is mi getalbumsearchresult :
<GetAlbumSearchResults dest="8">
<RegExp input="$$5" output="&lt;results&gt;\1&lt;/results&gt;" dest="8">
<RegExp input="$$1" output="&lt;entity&gt;&lt;year&gt;2000&lt;/year&gt;&lt;genre&gt;test&lt;/genre&gt;&lt;title&gt;\2&lt;/title&gt;&lt;url&gt;http://www.last.fm/music\1&lt;/url&gt;&lt;/entity&gt;" dest="5">
<expression repeat="yes">&lt;a href=&quot;(.*)&quot;&gt;(.*)&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span</expression>
</RegExp>
<expression noclean="1"></expression>
</RegExp>
</GetAlbumSearchResults>

I don't know if all fields (year,genre,title,etc) need to exist in the result of the first request, i don't have them available at first, but i would from the url fetched in the regexp...

Perhaps there is something wrong with the regexp, ive tried m any simple ones, with no result, is there any way to force a valid result?. So i can get to the next step in the scrapper?.

Well, i don't really know if i'm actually making any sense here.. but thank you very much in advance for your help.

Pyro-X