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Random Image Composition With Yahoo API  (View post)

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

Friday, March 4, 2005
19 years ago

Interesting that, because I came across a similar thing earlier this week, which also links to the sites where the images are from:

http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/collage.html

(I'm not sure where they're getting their images from though...)

I found the site in my IIS logs as a referral, so it must have contained images from my site at some time. If you leave it for 60 seconds, it reloads. (Reloading in between doesn't appear to change the image, which makes me think it's not doing it on the fly like yours is.)

Tony Ruscoe [PersonRank 10]

19 years ago #

Update: Having visited the directory above where this page was at, the author says:

"It finds the images by feeding random words into various search engines, and pulling images (or sections of images) out of the pages returned."

http://www.jwz.org/webcollage/ > Explain

So it sounds like it's doing some screen-scraping rather than using APIs...

Chris Columbo [PersonRank 1]

19 years ago #

Do you share the source code to any of your projects?

Thanks,
Chris

Philipp Lenssen [PersonRank 10]

19 years ago #

Chris, actually the PHP stayed pretty much the same as the one I linked to from the post – it's very small. I use some workarounds to correct what seems to be a buggy PHP/libxml2 implementation, or something similar, by creating a PHP4 wrapper. Here's the code to the PHP5:
http://blogoscoped.com/yahoo/index.txt

Chris Columbo [PersonRank 1]

19 years ago #

Thanks Philipp. Great work with the random videos as well.

Chris

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