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Streamtuner2 is written in Python, a rather easy programming language. And it's also rather simple - to write a new channel plugin.

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The basic layout of every channel plugin is as follows:

- - - -from channels import * - -class myplugin (ChannelPlugin): - - title = "MyNewChannel" - module = "myplugin" - homepage = "http://www.mymusicstation.com/" - categories = [] - - - - def update_categories(self): - - self.categories = [] - - - - def update_streams(self, cat, force=0): - - entries = [] - - # ... - # get it from somewhere - # ... - - return entries - - - -

There are some self-explanatory description fields, and two important methods. Sometimes you - don't need categories even. The update_streams() function often downloads a website, parses it - with regular expressions or PyQuery / DOM methods, and packs into into a result list.

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Here entries is a list of dictionaries, with standardized entry names like "title" and "playing" - for the description, and "homepage" for a browsable link, and most importantly "url" for the - actual streaming link. Often you want to add a "genre" and "format" and "bitrate" info. But this depends - on your plugins data source, really.

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