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It started, as so many things do, with a tweet<\/a>(bark?) from CogDog<\/a> linking to The Best of ds106 GIF TV<\/a>. This got me thinking of how to automate the gathering of gifs. I remembered that I had done some gif scraping a while back: Doug’s Gifs<\/a>.<\/p>\n I wondered about scrapping tumblr in the same manner with a wee bit of php. This turns out to be quite simple: Gifs, Gifs<\/a><\/p>\n I didn’t do the regExpression myself, I must have found it on the internet when I made the page of Doug’s gifs. Anyway at this point you have a list (php array) of urls to all of the gifs on the page. I’ve not worked out the best way to handle this, but currently I am writing it to a cache file and only updating it every now and again. The list is put into a JavaScript Array.<\/p>\n The page Gifs, Gifs<\/a>, loops through a few ds106naughts tumblrs rather than just the one. It then displays a random gif, clicking on this will display another.<\/p>\n This is pretty much proof of concept rather than a well though out solution, but it works. There are a few interesting things that could be done structurally. Alan has already suggested hiving off the generation to a separate php file and a cron job. We could then have a plain html\/javascript page for display. He also suggest a next and previous button(√). I am guessing that it might be better to have the list in a database?<\/p>\n Now I have a text file with a list of ds106 gifs, it is pretty simple to have a The code used:<\/p>\n This should give a random gif every time.<\/p>\n Imagine you are blogging (or making any webpage) and want an exciting gif to go with your post, but you don’t just want any old gif, you want a random DS106 gif. Safe for work but not for your mind. Now you casn, simply use http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/oddsandends\/ds106gif<\/em> as an image url and you will get a random gif every time the page loads.<\/p>\n Given that my gif store is a list of gif urls the code is simple:<\/p>\n DS106 Random Gif API<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" It started, as so many things do, with a tweet(bark?) from CogDog linking to The Best of ds106 GIF TV. This got me thinking of how to automate the gathering of gifs. I remembered that I had done some gif scraping a while back: Doug’s Gifs. I wondered about scrapping tumblr in the same manner … Continue reading “Gif Scraping and a DS106 Gif API”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[74],"tags":[153,77,43],"class_list":["post-1346","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-animatedgif","tag-fun","tag-javascript","tag-php"],"better_featured_image":null,"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p3RLlC-lI","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1346"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1353,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1346\/revisions\/1353"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1346"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1346"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/106\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1346"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
\n$url = \"http:\/\/jjgifs.tumblr.com\/rss\";
\n
$rss = file_get_contents($url);
\n$matches = array();
\npreg_match_all('!http:\/\/[^?#\\s]+\\.(gif)!', $rss,$matches);
\n<\/code><\/p>\n
\n\t ds106GifAPI! This following image should be a random DS106 gif:<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
\n\t<img src="http:\/\/johnjohnston.info\/oddsandends\/ds106gif" alt="a random ds106 gif " \/><\/code><\/p>\nTHe DS106 Gif API<\/h2>\n
\r\n<?php\r\n$cachefile = "Path\/To\/The\/Cache\/File.txt";\r\n$gifs = file_get_contents($cachefile); \r\n$gifArray=explode("\\n",$gifs);\r\n$thisgif=$gifArray[rand(0,count($gifArray))];\r\nheader('Location: '.$thisgif);\r\n?><\/code><\/pre>\n