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Project idea for learning (lemmy.ca)
submitted 10 months ago by GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca to c/programming@programming.dev
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I'm a retired Unix sysadmin. Over the years I've built things in COBOL, FORTAN, C, perl, rexx, PHP, visual basic, various Unix shells and maybe others. Nothing has been a real "application" - mostly just utilities to help me get things done.

Now that I'm retired, and it's cold outside, I'm curious to try some more coding - and I have an idea.

The music communities here seem to post links to YouTube. I generally use Lemmy on my phone but don't use YouTube, or listen to music, on my phone if I can help it. I'd like to scrape a music community here and add the songs posted to a playlist in my musicbrainz account.

Does that sound like a reasonable learner project? Any suggestions for language and libraries appreciated. My preferred IDE is vim on bash and I have a home server running Linux where this could run as a daemon, or be scheduled.

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[โ€“] GreatBlueHeron@lemmy.ca 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Thank you for your detailed response. It's a bit much for my proposed "project". I won't be using any libraries (other than built-in python json etc.). I've prototyped most of it and it's currently about 15 lines of code. Literally one call to lemmy, a search to Musicbrainz and a playlist update to listenbrainz. I know it will grow lots as I make it a bit more robust, but it's still very small.

[โ€“] onlinepersona@programming.dev 2 points 10 months ago

I see. No problem :) If it's simple, does what you need it to, and you're happy with it, that's all that matters.