Audioscrobbler.com - No More TopAlbums.xml

November 3rd, 2006 by carlton

Audioscrobbler.com took away the topalbums.xml listing, so I setup a perl script to download the data I need (weeklytopalbums.xml and others), and added a cron job to run the update every 12 hours. I still use the recent tracks directly off of audioscrobbler (otherwise they wouldn’t be recent).

To view the perl script click here. If you use it you will need to create the images and xml folders and modify some lines. Then you can pull the xml data directly from your own site/server.

If you have any ideas on how to make my little perl script better, go for it, I am by no means a perl expert, and don’t write in it that often.

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