--[[ $Id$ Copyright © 2010 VideoLAN and AUTHORS Authors: Rémi Duraffort This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or (at your option) any later version. This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful, but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE. See the GNU General Public License for more details. You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin Street, Fifth Floor, Boston MA 02110-1301, USA. --]] require "simplexml" function descriptor() return { title="Channels.com" } end function search( string ) -- Do the query query = string.gsub( string, ' ', '+' ) local feed = simplexml.parse_url( "http://www.metachannels.com/api/search?apikey=54868d5d73af69d6afa12d55db6f3d18735baa7d&searchTerms=" .. query ) local channel = feed.children[1] -- List all answers local node = vlc.sd.add_node( { path = "", title = string } ) for _,item in ipairs( channel.children ) do if( item.name == 'item' ) then simplexml.add_name_maps( item ) local url = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( item.children_map['link'][1].children[1] ) local title = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( item.children_map['title'][1].children[1] ) local arturl = nil if item.children_map['media:thumbnail'] ~= nil then arturl = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( item.children_map['media:thumbnail'][1].attributes['url'] ) if( arturl == '/images/thumb_channel_default.jpg' ) then arturl = 'http://www.metachannels.com/images/thumb_channel_default.jpg' end end node:add_subitem( { path = url, title = title, arturl = arturl } ) end end end function main() -- get the primary feed and parse the tag local feed = simplexml.parse_url( "http://metachannels.com/meta_channels?device=vlc&lang=en,es,fr,de,it,other&format=rss&adult_ok=y" ) local channel = feed.children[1] -- list all children that are items for _,item in ipairs( channel.children ) do if( item.name == 'item' ) then simplexml.add_name_maps( item ) local url = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( item.children_map['link'][1].children[1] ) local title = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( item.children_map['title'][1].children[1] ) local arturl = nil if item.children_map['image'] ~= nil then arturl = vlc.strings.resolve_xml_special_chars( item.children_map['image'][1].children_map['url'][1].children[1] ) end local node = vlc.sd.add_item( { path = url, title = title, arturl = arturl } ) end end end