Create a top 10 episodes page

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There are currently 21 episodes on the site and some of the older ones are getting very popular. Unfortunately their popularity isn't displayed on the site and older episodes are moved down the list. This feature request attempts to address this issue.

Create a page that lists the top 10 podcasts with links to the relevant episodes. This requires further investigation as this really needs to be automated. Perhaps the podcast host has an API that could be accessed.

Requirements:

• [ ] Investigate a means of gathering popular episodes via an API
• [ ] Create a script that accesses the API
• [ ] Create a page in Sculpin
• [ ] Create a main menu item
• [ ] Create a cron script that updates the list

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Libsyn has an API but I can't find any documentation. There is a wordPress plugin called the Publisher Hub This uses the API and the code is stored in this SVN repository. Some of the API code can been seen here

Possible ideas:

• Create a WordPress site that is hosted privately. A cron could pull down the stats each month and scp these to site. This could trigger a site rebuild.
• Try and recreate/reverse engineer this plugin to work as a Symfony console command and run this command on a cron

Both of these options will take time to develop/test

Investigation is still needed.

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