--[[ Gets an artwork from images.google.com $Id$ Copyright © 2007 the VideoLAN team 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. --]] -- Replace non alphanumeric char by + function get_query( title ) -- If we have a .EXT remove the extension. str = string.gsub( title, "(.*)%....$", "%1" ) return string.gsub( str, "([^%w ])", function (c) return string.format ("%%%02X", string.byte(c)) end) end -- Return the artwork function fetch_art() if vlc.artist and vlc.album then title = vlc.artist.." "..vlc.album elseif vlc.title and vlc.artist then title = vlc.artist.." "..vlc.title elseif vlc.title then title = vlc.title elseif vlc.name then title = vlc.name else return nil end fd = vlc.stream_new( "http://images.google.com/images?q=" .. get_query( title ) ) page = vlc.stream_read( fd, 65653 ) vlc.stream_delete( fd ) _, _, arturl = string.find( page, "imgurl=([^&]+)" ) if arturl then return vlc.decode_uri(arturl) else return nil end end