I am working on a sound project and need pd to read input from a live number feed from the web(weather). I do think somehow it may be possible to turn that information into text documents that could some how be read by pd? Well if anyone has any idea on how to do this or any ideas how i would go about implementing such a thing, let me know. thanks!

_tomvicky

I would use python or perl or any language that has robust html requests and analysis. This is not PDs strong suit by a long shot.

edit: or a bash script could handle it easy, with wget.

I will look into those, but would it be possible then to route those to pd? Becuase i am composing the piece in pd and want to use the live data as parameters in the piece.

I am currently reading an interesting master's thesis on the generative synthesis of qaida tabla solos. I just passed the part in which he writes: "The
core of the system was coded in Python [65], relying on the NumPy and SciPy [36]
packages for performance intensive computation, and to facilitate manipulation of
data structures. Audio output was generated using the Pd-extended 0.40.3 version
of Pure Data (Pd) [50, 51, 47]. Communication was handled in realtime between
Python classes and Pd using the OSC networking protocol [73]."

So yeah. It's language-learning time!

Thanks, i guess i'll start learning. Although i only have 8 days.... This should be interesting.

8 days?

there are a few ways you can pass data to pd. sockets is the first thing that comes to mind using [netsend] and [netreceive] on the pd end and nc in a bash script. or even just pass via txt files. very easy with [textfile].

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as a matter of fact, my bash script would look like this:
# executable called grabit.sh

#!/bin/bash

wget www.path.to/the/object/i/want -O data.txt
echo ";" >> data.txt
cat data.txt | nc localhost 1745

#/sh#

and my corresponding puredata patch would include:

#N canvas 623 279 450 300 10;
#X obj 239 127 netreceive 1745;
#X obj 239 153 print here:;
#X msg 111 66 ./grabit.sh;
#X obj 111 92 shell;
#X obj 71 204 textfile;
#X msg 71 182 read data.txt;
#X connect 0 0 1 0;
#X connect 2 0 3 0;
#X connect 5 0 4 0;

are you using linux or osX by any chance?

http://www.pdpatchrepo.info/hurleur/receive.pd

Sorry i didn't clarify, the 8 days is my deadline .

But i am aware of the netsend, that's how i assumed it would be done. But how that corresponds to specific data from an adress confuses me. I am on osx.

well if the information always falls on the same line of the html, you can code that into your [textfile] object to [rewind( and then [bang( p to that line, discarding the other data, or you could regex in bash or something.

Thanks alot for those lines of code btw. Im trying to get it sorted out. I keep getting a syntax error in the directory line though : (