Adding Twitter support in Internet Services for Amarok

Kolja Dummann k.dummann at gmail.com
Sun Oct 18 17:11:33 UTC 2009


Hi Ninad,

I just found a web service that is exactly doing the thing you described
below. Not especially for amarok, it uses the last.fm api to do that
independent from the client or service that you are using to love a
track.

http://lastfmlovetweet.com/

cheers Kolja.

Am Donnerstag, den 08.10.2009, 09:49 +0530 schrieb Ninad Pundalik:
> Hi!
> 
> A few days back, I'd visited the IRC channel to discuss this idea, of
> integrating Twitter with the Internet Services framework in Amarok.
> Due to college exams, I was unable to work on the idea, and hence,
> this mail comes a little late.
> 
> I'd love to implement a feature similar to the Last.fm Love a track,
> where the user can click on a button and their Twitter profile will
> get updated with the track info for the song that is being played
> currently (i.e., we post a tweet :) ).  The simplest way to implement
> this, would be to create a Scripted Service.  Correct me if I am wrong
> here, but this will post every song that the user listens to, which
> will be spamming his timeline with tweets about his songs.  So that
> would leave an option of writing a script/plugin similar to Last.fm,
> which, as I mentioned above, will be triggered by the user.
> 
> I have done a little web development at an internship, so I have a
> working knowledge of Javascript.  I also am well acquainted with the
> Twitter API (though I admit it isn't too difficult/vast at the
> moment).  I will need lots of help with the Amarok source, as I have
> never worked in Qt, C++ and the KDE libraries :).  Please point me to
> a few resources that I can start off with, so that I can understand
> the necessary part of the code before I begin to actually write some
> code.  Also, this is my first attempt at contributing to an open
> source project, so please correct me when I screw up.  I've been a
> happy user of Amarok for almost 2 years now, and would like to give
> back to the community. :)
> 
> Thanx for all the help!
> 
> Ninad S. Pundalik
> http://twitter.com/ninadsp
> 
> PS: At the moment, my idea is to implement this with Basic
> Authentication for Twitter.  However, I also have a rough idea of how
> to implement it with OAuth.  Will work on it as I figure out things
> around here.
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