Tractor

From Music Hack Day

Contents 1 Tractor 2 Creator 3 About the hack 4 Technology used 4.1 APIs 4.2 Libraries 5 Screenshot 6 Source code and links 6.1 The backend 6.2 The Chrome extension

[edit] Tractor

Find out more about the artists mentioned in the page you're viewing.

[edit] Creator

Niko Felger, Phil Cowans.

[edit] About the hack

A quick Chrome extension to extract artist names from the page you're viewing and pull up more data:

• stats from Musicmetric,
• tour dates from Songkick,
• artist images from Last.fm,
• audio players from Soundcloud.

[edit] Technology used

[edit] APIs

• Songkick
• Musicmetric
• Soundcloud
• Last.fm

[edit] Libraries

• Lingpipe for named entity extraction
• Boilerpipe for article text extraction
• Backbone.js for the extension and its back-end

[edit] Screenshot

[edit] Source code and links

Chrome extension Text extraction backend

There are no (useful) READMEs or instructions so far (hey! it's a hack, amirite?), and we didn't have time to get the backend hosted somewhere. If you want to have a go, it shouldn't be to hard to get set up. Just follow these steps, which I wrote in about 2 minutes, so is probably entirely unhelpful and wrong:

[edit] The backend

• Get you an rvm if you don't have one already: https://rvm.beginrescueend.com/
• Install JRuby: `rvm install jruby-1.5.6`
• `git clone https://github.com/nfelger/artistractor`
• In the project directory, do `bundle install`
• Run it on localhost:3000, e.g. by `bundle exec glassfish`

[edit] The Chrome extension

• `git clone https://github.com/nfelger/tractor`
• Install the extension according to step 4 in http://code.google.com/chrome/extensions/getstarted.html#load