Comments on: Attn Hackers: Opening up Grooveshark

By: MusicMan

MusicMan — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 04:37:12 +0000

Thanks for the informative blog. How can we get the recently streamed items with the new html5 player?

By: Diego Peralta

Diego Peralta — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 20:36:13 +0000

Your welcome!

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 08:14:50 +0000

Awesome, thanks for sharing! :)

By: Diego Peralta

Diego Peralta — Wed, 02 Feb 2011 05:46:13 +0000

Hey Jay,

I made a small script on ruby for mac os x users that allow you to update your IM status (Adium or iChat) with the current song of Grooveshark: https://github.com/kerberoS/Grooveshark-Status-AIM.

I hope you like it!

Cheers,

By: Jay

Jay — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 09:32:33 +0000

Justin,

You can remotely control the desktop app through a console application or anything else you wish to develop, by simply writing to a file. See:
http://grooveshark.wikia.com/wiki/External_Player_Control_API_Docs

I don’t know of any way to allow OS console -> site communication without a custom plugin, but there is a JS API for controlling the site from a plugin, so theoretically you could develop such a thing.

By: Justin

Justin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 06:52:28 +0000

So where does this leave me for wanting to write a command line client for grooveshark? Would the javascript interface allow for adding songs, searching, etc? Or will it only accept player controls?

By: Keyboard Shortcuts for Grooveshark Desktop « Jay Paroline – Grooveshark Dev

Sat, 05 Jun 2010 06:45:07 +0000

[...] a further effort to open Grooveshark to 3rd party developers, we have added an External Player Control API. (Side note: yes, it’s a hack to be polling a [...]

By: Jay

Jay — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 08:05:56 +0000

At this time there are no plans to do something like that (our servers are a bit overloaded as it is). To be honest last.fm scrobbling will probably be pushed out before we have a chance to add that functionality.

Of course either way the feature will start out as VIP-only because all new features start out that way and only get released to the general public when we have something even more awesome to release to our VIP users.

By: Mic

Mic — Sat, 09 Jan 2010 16:16:39 +0000

Are you planning to publish that file (currentSong.txt), for any user, in the api path (api.grooveshark...) or anywhere else? (So also non-vip can have they status up?). @noiz: in this post they tolk about my scrobbler, it's far from being perfect but you can try it! (as a plus, you don't need command-line interaction as they wrote)

By: noiz

noiz — Wed, 30 Dec 2009 08:17:34 +0000

I too would like a temporary solution to scrobble all the songs that I play on grooveshark even if you guys are working up an official way to do that. Scrobbling is one of the things that holds me back from using grooveshark even more and if I could get something working that would be great. Also, I’m able to find the file on my windows machine, but can’t for the life of me find where the file is store on my linux machine, any ideas?