Comments for Jay Paroline - Grooveshark Dev

Comment on about:grooveshark by Jay

Jay — Mon, 15 Apr 2013 20:12:13 +0000

We use mysqli. :)

Comment on ORDER BY SLOW() by manu

manu — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 03:02:46 +0000

this truy a great way to fetch random rows.

Comment on Detect crawlers with PHP faster by Bacon

Bacon — Tue, 05 Mar 2013 01:44:22 +0000

Why the second level array? Why not all inside the parent array – (ie. array(‘google’ => ‘Google’, ‘msnbot’ => ‘Bing’…))

Comment on about:grooveshark by bob

bob — Fri, 21 Dec 2012 23:36:57 +0000

what do you use for grooveshark pdo or mysqli

Comment on Migrating to github by makuchaku

makuchaku — Sun, 09 Dec 2012 09:27:30 +0000

Worked out very nicely.
The –mirror option rocked!

Thanks a ton!

Comment on Detect crawlers with PHP faster by Brett Miller

Brett Miller — Thu, 06 Dec 2012 22:52:23 +0000

There is a fundamental flaw in your reasoning, Karla.

In the preg_match, they are looking for a pattern within the HTTP_USER_AGENT value and that will look something like the following:
crawl-66-249-70-244.googlebot.com

As you can see, there is more to the HTTP_USER_AGENT value than just googlebot, so the stripos call would fail for just about every crawler.

Comment on Detect crawlers with PHP faster by Karla Walsh

Karla Walsh — Mon, 03 Sep 2012 07:51:22 +0000

Using stripos rather than regex makes a slight difference. 1,000,000 regex repetions in 15.2711 1,000,000 string repetions in 13.9157 A revised list including the bots from Mike is attached.


    function is_crawler($user_agent) {
        $crawlers=''
            . 'AbachoBOT|accoona|AcioRobot|AdsBot-Google|AltaVista|ASPSeek|Baidu|'  
            . 'Charlotte|Charlotte t|CocoCrawler|DotBot|Dumbot|eStyle|'  
            . 'FeedFetcher-Google|GeonaBot|Gigabot|Google|Googlebot|IDBot|Java VM|'  
            . 'LiteFinder|Lycos|msnbot|msnbot-media|MSRBOT|QihooBot|Rambler|Scooter|'  
            . 'ScrubbyBloglines subscriber|Sogou head spider|Sogou web spider|'  
            . 'Sosospider|Superdownloads Spiderman|WebAlta Crawler|Yahoo|'  
            . 'Yahoo! Slurp China|Yeti|YoudaoBot|' ; 
        //$is_crawler = (preg_match("/$crawlers/i", $user_agent) > 0); // 1 million reps = 15.2711 secs
        $is_crawler = ((stripos($crawlers, $user_agent) !== false) ? true : false); // 1 million reps = 13.9157 secs
        return $is_crawler;
    }

Comment on Grooveshark IE bug by Tony Silva

Tony Silva — Wed, 21 Mar 2012 19:30:02 +0000

People getting the flash warning in Internet Explorer when trying to run Grooveshark can get it working if a) you actually DO have Flash installed and b) If you enable the Chrome Frame BHO. To do this, go to Tools –> Internet Options –> Add-Ins and find “Google Chrome Frame” and enable that.

If Google Chrome frame is ot installed, Google it :-)

Comment on Keyboard Shortcuts for Grooveshark Desktop by Jason

Jason — Wed, 21 Sep 2011 10:35:10 +0000

If you’re on a Mac, Musicality (industriousone.com/musicality) has global keyboard shortcuts. Works with the media keys and the remote too, plus supports Growl and Last.fm.

Comment on Linux: run script as a different user by Jay

Jay — Sat, 17 Sep 2011 07:59:26 +0000

Yeah, obviously don’t do that on a server you care about. I assume that goes without saying.