Local events Plugin possible?

[staubi]

Hi,

I just noticed today that I seldomly visit the last.fm page, but they show a list of possibly interesting concerts in my surroundings (last.fm/events)...

So my question:

Would someone like to make a plugin (or an addition to the existing last.fm plugin), to show these events in a tab or somehow to easily find out if there are any nice concerts in the near future?

Greetings, staubi

[VastOne]

That capability is already there... It is in the tab Events in artistinfo 

[ochosi]

True, but the artistinfo plugin shows the information based on the currently playing artist, not on your current location.

This is definitely do-able, but I'd put it in a separate plugin. If you want to work on it, simply fork the artistinfo-plugin, drop everything but the events-tab and change the calls to get the events near your location. As far as I know that should be easy (but you need authentication, so you'd need to copy that over from the last-fm plugin).

[staubi]

I just checked both plugin and it would take me at least a day to understand enough to combine those two in the proper way ???

Maybe someone with a bit more knowledge of the stuff could have a look? Guess it can be done it half an hour if one knows what to do...

But thanks for Your considerings so far!

[Quentin Sculo]

There is of course the solution of opening the web page in a tab, with the current git version, the webcontext plugin can open a link in a new tab with middle click, that tab is saved (though I'm not sure if it stays logged in last.fm, can't test it now). So it may be a good alternative. Of course using the webcontext plugin requires the webkit perl bindings that is not currently packaged many distributions.