Comments on: MySpace Events RSS Creator

By: Scott Reynen

Scott Reynen — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:52:49 +0000

Jeff, yes, the code is licensed for hosting on your own server.

By: Jeff

Jeff — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:09:57 +0000

In the absence of a solid API from MySpace this script provides EXACTLY the functionality I was looking for - exporting my band’s calendar items from MySpace to post on our public website. I want to get away from maintaining the data in two places.

I don’t suppose there’s a way you would license or share the underlying PHP code, is there? I’d like to host it on my own server. I’d hate to go change my page to read the feed from your site, only to find out that your site goes offline in six months or something unforeseeable like that.

Great job on creating something that addresses such a glaring hole in the world of social networking sites. Personally, I hate MySpace, but it is somewhat of a necessary evil these days.

By: Scott Reynen

Scott Reynen — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 20:03:08 +0000

Matt, can Google Calendar import RSS feeds? I haven’t found any info about that.

By: Matt Finnigan

Matt Finnigan — Tue, 24 Jun 2008 16:47:42 +0000

I can get a nice RSS feed of my MySpace calendar, but trying to bring the URL into Google Calendar doesn’t display anything.

By: jeff

jeff — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 01:04:37 +0000

Great tool. Only have one problem. The feed ascends from new to old. Problem there is events in the future are on top of upcoming events. Anyone know how to change this? Please let me know.

By: Scott Reynen

Scott Reynen — Thu, 21 Jun 2007 16:07:03 +0000

tim, I’m using the events feed for band events. That was the primary reason for creating it. When you say “calendar items”, do you mean something else? If I may cross-plug a bit, you might be interested in Playing Here, a site I’ve made, focused entirely on concert schedules.

By: tim

tim — Mon, 18 Jun 2007 01:28:18 +0000

how about a version for myspace band calendar items?

By: Scott Reynen

Scott Reynen — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 20:27:19 +0000

Jeff, the problem was with the “18 & Up,” which is invalid HTML. MySpace should be publishing that HTML as “18 & Up”, but MySpace is, as usual, broken, so I added a check for that and your cousin’s events are loading correctly now. Thanks for the note.

By: Jeff Phillips

Jeff Phillips — Fri, 13 Apr 2007 16:00:08 +0000

I noticed that this works on other profiles but not my cousin’s band at myspace.com/armyofgood1. I’m going to guess it must be from some additional layout code that they pasted in from some other site which is throwing it off.

In the profile page where it lists the upcoming shows, there is a link in the upper right corner of that box to “view all”. This takes you to a seperate URL for the friendID number which lists all the events the band has posted. Wouldn’t it make more sense for this MySpace Events RSS creator to pull its information from the “View all” events page, rather than the profile page? This way it isn’t loading all of the cluttered nonsense code that people have on their profiles and comments, and rather a just more consistent and simplified list of the events.

Of course you would need the FriendID, but that’s just a matter of going to one’s profile page and clicking “view all” events, and copying the resulting URL.

-Jeff

By: Scott Reynen

Scott Reynen — Wed, 15 Nov 2006 13:14:32 +0000

The only means of ensuring well-formed output I know of is Tidy. I tested running the MySpace pages through Tidy before reading them, but there was too much lost content in the process.

If that lost content isn’t an issue in your case, you could still do that yourself using a Tidy proxy service. Except in a few cases, Tidy might remove content necessary to parse the page, in which case it would fail. I’m not sure how to improve that. Another option is to contact the MySpace user and ask them to clean up their HTML.