Add other means of identifying a service

[SkyLeite]

Is it possible to add an option for connectors to identify a service through means other than the website's URL? It would make adding support for self-hosted platforms such as https://funkwhale.audio, which are not tied to a specific pattern or URL, but work consistently across all of them.

[inverse]

We provide the ability to change the URL for a given connector. See https://github.com/web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler/wiki/Custom-URL-patterns

Is that sufficient?

[SkyLeite]

It works in the short term, but I think ideally it's best to have something like having the extension look for certain meta tags to automatically identify such services.

[inverse]

This has been mentioned before. Perhaps it's time to start implementing some Dom parsing matcher as an experimental feature for this.

[agateblue]

Hi, Funkwhale maintainer here :)

If needed, I can easily add a meta tag into Funkwhale HTML, like <meta name="generator" content="funkwhale 0.18">. I'm not sure how the actual scrobbling work though. How does Web Scrobbler identifies that the player switched to another track? If I can help with that, let me know!

[inverse]

Hey @EliotBerriot - thanks for reaching out. Once we start implementing this feature I can imagine that'll be useful for injecting the correct logic into the page.

The scrobbling normally works by binding to DOM elements and watching for changes. e.g. like this: https://github.com/web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler/blob/master/src/connectors/mnet.js

Sometimes even binding to native audio elements or the JS that the apps expose.

[agateblue]

The scrobbling normally works by binding to DOM elements and watching for changes. e.g. like this: https://github.com/web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler/blob/master/src/connectors/mnet.js

Makes sense, I'll try to keep stable class names for artists / albums / track data then!

[alexesprit]

I've added a basic support for identifying websites via checking for match rules in a content script. Will merge these changes into master branch after some testing and extending the match rules.

[alexesprit]

@EliotBerriot would be great if you add a meta tag like you suggested. I think it should contain no version:

<meta name="generator" content="Funkwhale">

as the version is redundant here (can be added as a separate meta tag, though).

[agateblue]

@alexesprit, sure, I'll do that today, and it will be included in our next release :)

[agateblue]

@alexesprit So it's been implemented, and deployed at https://open.audio/library if you want to try it. Let me know if you need me to set some static classes / attributes on the player to make the job easier for you :)

[stephanebruckert]

Can we find a method to do this with the Spotify and Bandcamp embeds as well? These are still open/unmerged:

• https://github.com/web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler/issues/2024
• https://github.com/web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler/pull/2026

[alexesprit]

@stephanebruckert the way I added should work for embeds in theory, but I haven't checked it.

There're some known limitations:

• It doesn't work in websites that add embeds dynamically (e.g. reddit, where a post with an embed can be loaded while scrolling posts).
• It doesn't work in websites that already covered by another connector.

[inverse]

@alexesprit did you make any progress on this injection mechanism?

[alexesprit]

https://github.com/web-scrobbler/web-scrobbler/tree/feature/request-inject but it's not finished.