I´m a beginner, I never wrote a single line of LISP or Scheme in my life and I´m here for asking for directions and suggestions.
I´m mumbling about a pet project. I would like to scrape the web site of a comunitarian radio station and grab the flash streamed content they publish. The license the material is published under is Creative Common so what I´m planning is not illegal.
The reason why they chose such an obtuse solution is because they are obtuse. They started the station in the 70s and now they don´t get this digital new thing
I read the web stuff. The client chapter suggests to adopt an architecture similar to that of the server for parallel scrapers and closes flashing the idea of threads and futures.
I don´t see how I could use threads or futures (I´m not even sure what they are) and my boldness is such that I´d ask you to write for me an example skeleton code.
Also I was thinking to write a scraper in Guile scheme and then such scraper would parse the html source for te relevant bits and then delegate the flash stuff to a unix command, I think wget, curl or something similar. Is this reasonable ? Is there any architectural glitch I´m missing, here ?
Don´t worry people, I know that the server setup and the internet connection is not so strong and I don´t want to be server hostile so I guess a maximum of 2 parallel connections are gonna run.
Or, I was dreaming I could try to integrate the thing with the Gnome enviroinment and make it available from the Gnome Shell _javascript_. So the people in the community could use it to grab the footages themselves. I don´t know