Shoutcast API

Simple API for shoutcast.com. Uses httparty and roxml for fetching and parsing data from yp.shoutcast.com/sbin/newxml.phtml.

Usage

require 'shoutcast_api'

# Stations
Shoutcast.search(:name => "Chronix").each do |station|
  p station
  puts station.tunein
end

Shoutcast.search(:genre => "Metal")

# Genres
Shoutcast.genres # => all genres

Install via gemcutter

gem install gemcutter
gem tumble
gem install shoutcast_api

Test

git clone git://github.com/splattael/shoutcast_api.git
cd shoutcast_api
gem install mocha

Command line

shoutcast_api               # List genres

shoutcast_api name=Chronix  # Search for station "Chronix"

# Search for station with genre "metal", bitrate 128 and media type "audio/mpeg"
shoutcast_api genre=metal br=128 mt=audio/mpeg

Authors

• Peter Suschlik

TODO

• Use fakeweb for mocking http requests

• README.rdoc as main page for rdoc?!

• command line options transformations