Comments on: PHP Application Turns MySpace Friends Into CSV – View/Mine in Excel Spreadsheet Etc

By: judas

judas — Tue, 30 Dec 2008 17:50:43 +0000

@zainuddin : install curl on your server.

By: Ben

Ben — Mon, 04 Aug 2008 17:21:37 +0000

Is there a way to pull the email addresses from the profiles so that they can be added to a mailing list?

By: zainuddin

zainuddin — Sun, 25 May 2008 05:40:59 +0000

Fatal error: Call to undefined function curl_init() in D:\Apache & Mysql\htdocs\myspace\ms_class.php on line 19

By: Matt

Matt — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 19:11:38 +0000

I think the problem with the BET profile is that they don’t have their genre listed. Normally there is a classification like “Indie / Rock / Retro”. These problems will crop up sometimes with profiles, because the TITLE data is formatted like

“A – B – C – D – E”

From a programming standpoint this difficult to distinguish from

“A – C – D – E”

and there will sometimes be issues. Luckily the overwhelming majority of profiles fit a certain structure, so it should work fine for 98% of your contacts. Let me know if you find any other issues (I just accepted your friendship on MySpace if you want to message me there).

I wish that the foafr forum still worked.. I’m trying to work out a database error that seems to have been caused by GoDaddy upgrading (or downgrading) their MySQL installation. If I can figure that out we should move it over there.

By: Andrew A. Peterson

Andrew A. Peterson — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:31:44 +0000

I know what you’re talking about and thanks for participating, Daniel G.
I think the issue has to do with the grep expressions, and possibly the fact that band/filmmaker profiles might be laid out a little differently.
My understanding is that this info is being scraped from the TITLE of the page.
The thing is, my friend who wrote this is a full time student and doesn’t have a lot of time to devote to ongoing tweaking of this. And surely myspace will be changing their url strings soon and everything will break.
I think maybe we should move to a forum or a work-group of some sort so we can create a distributable conversation. That way, you can get updates as coders who decide to participate in keeping the dream alive volunteer their contributions.
Any suggestions on a preferred platform for open discussion?

By: Daniel G.

Daniel G. — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:17:09 +0000

Ok, after a 2nd look here at 4am, maybe I was wrong :O LOL So, it is putting in different data in some fields on some profiles it scraped…
BAND 51699283 B.E.T B.E.T Washington Washington http://a803.ac-images.myspacecdn.com/00499/20/83/499693802_s.gif

see where the fields data are being duplicated as shown here… weird…this is only happening on a few of the profiles…

By: Daniel G.

Daniel G. — Wed, 09 Apr 2008 09:02:52 +0000

One thing it needs is to change commas in city/states in profile. When opening in excell, some fields are off because of the commas in the profiles. Just a thought. 4Am here, I hope that made sense