2009-10-25, 17:34
this one sounds very promising, cheers for that.
one (personal) question:
as you modified an existing scraper with good results, any chances you can do me a favor and use some of your time to add the functionality to look up for artist thumbs on my site?
i began to start a resource for especially prepared artist thumbs for the use in aeon (showmix) and so far 777 thumbs are present, with a bunch of users willing to add more in the future. also we started collecting fanart, but that's maybe another topic.
the gallery is organised pretty basic, thumbs are categorised in folders by artist names, so it should be pretty easy for ppl that have the skills to write a lookup to get them downloaded. every artist thumb has a thumbnail and a full picture. unfortunately there is no api that can be used, so it would be simple html scraping; but as there is an easy structure and we don't hold additional info in general, once again it should be easy to get them scraped. we also use a search feature that returns matches by given keywords in the whole gallery (thumbs AND fanart).
i would be glad if you consider trying to do that.
one (personal) question:
as you modified an existing scraper with good results, any chances you can do me a favor and use some of your time to add the functionality to look up for artist thumbs on my site?
i began to start a resource for especially prepared artist thumbs for the use in aeon (showmix) and so far 777 thumbs are present, with a bunch of users willing to add more in the future. also we started collecting fanart, but that's maybe another topic.
the gallery is organised pretty basic, thumbs are categorised in folders by artist names, so it should be pretty easy for ppl that have the skills to write a lookup to get them downloaded. every artist thumb has a thumbnail and a full picture. unfortunately there is no api that can be used, so it would be simple html scraping; but as there is an easy structure and we don't hold additional info in general, once again it should be easy to get them scraped. we also use a search feature that returns matches by given keywords in the whole gallery (thumbs AND fanart).
i would be glad if you consider trying to do that.
