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I'm looking for something pretty complicated...

by sirtom
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Hey all,

I have an idea, but it's rather complicated.

A question beforehand: how hard is it do make a system like trafficguyser/tubemogul that allows you to upload and submit one piece of content to multiple websites that you have a username and password stored for?

I'm looking for someone that knows how to do something similar to that, or how hard something like that would be to create. This wouldn't involve video though, but other formats of content.

Can anyone help? Thanks!
-Tom
#complicated #pretty
  • Profile picture of the author Manfred Ekblad
    Do you mean something like what they are talking about here:

    I want to login to a website using PHP? - TalkPHP

    drewish.com: using php and curl to do an html file post

    Might be easier if the websites you want to post to has a public API though, any info about that?
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  • Profile picture of the author rukki
    Manfred is completely right. I have been looking for a way to send automatically messages to twitter. Looking, looking - then I found that twitter designers give an API for it - you may read about it in twitter's apiwiki.
    So sometimes there is no need to look for the complex solution - it is better to read about easier ways
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    • Profile picture of the author sirtom
      Thank Manfred and Rukki for responding.

      As for the API, I really don't know the first thing about it and programming in general really. I just had an idea, and was trying to see if it would even be possible.

      @Manfred- I think that's similar to what I'm looking for. As with my previous example of TrafficGuyser, you register to websites and it stores you log in. Then, you upload a file and its details. Then you pick the sites you want to submit to, and simply click submit (in a nutshell).

      The sites I'd like to do that for are sites like Scribd.com and others similar.

      What you and Rukki are saying though is that's only possible for sites that have an "public API"?

      Thanks!
      -Tom
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  • Profile picture of the author mywebwork
    Hi Tom

    First of all the presence of a public API does not guarantee that you will be able to do what you want to do. The API would need to have the upload functionality that you need, not all of them will.

    Manfred's methods involve CURL, a PHP function library that allows for "screen scraping". It's possible to build a working system this way, but you run the risk that it will break if the website in question changes its front-end design.

    Hope you're having a great holiday season, PM me or Skype me if you want to chat more about this.

    Bill
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