Hello people, Happy New Year.
I´m a beginner, I never wrote a single line of LISP or Scheme in my life and I´m here for asking for directions and suggestions. I´m mumbling about a pet project. I would like to scrape the web site of a comunitarian radio station and grab the flash streamed content they publish. The license the material is published under is Creative Common so what I´m planning is not illegal. The reason why they chose such an obtuse solution is because they are obtuse. They started the station in the 70s and now they don´t get this digital new thing I read the web stuff. The client chapter suggests to adopt an architecture similar to that of the server for parallel scrapers and closes flashing the idea of threads and futures. I don´t see how I could use threads or futures (I´m not even sure what they are) and my boldness is such that I´d ask you to write for me an example skeleton code. Also I was thinking to write a scraper in Guile scheme and then such scraper would parse the html source for te relevant bits and then delegate the flash stuff to a unix command, I think wget, curl or something similar. Is this reasonable ? Is there any architectural glitch I´m missing, here ? Don´t worry people, I know that the server setup and the internet connection is not so strong and I don´t want to be server hostile so I guess a maximum of 2 parallel connections are gonna run. Or, I was dreaming I could try to integrate the thing with the Gnome enviroinment and make it available from the Gnome Shell javascript. So the people in the community could use it to grab the footages themselves. I don´t know Thanks so much for ANY hint Cato
