Introducing PEP, the Prodigem Enclosure Puller. With Prodigem's just released API, I was knocking around ideas about how to show it off quickly and effectively. I'm pretty happy with this first result. PEP is < 400 lines of PHP code I've thrown together (download it at http://prodigem.com/code/pep/pep.txt) which, when given your Prodigem username, password and an RSS 2.0 feed, will then find all the enclosures in that RSS feed and call into Prodigem to have a torrent created for each one. Automatically. You just run and/or cron the script on your home computer or web-server and PEP does the rest.

This bit of hackery (btw, the code has much room for improvement, please someone run with it) of course needed a good first RSS feed. Enter del.icio.us. Using their RSS feed for popular videos, Prodigem now automatically torrents the most popular videos on the web as decided by the del.icio.us folksonomy. That is to say, what the world wants, the world gets.

You can see the results on our newly created pep_delicious user page or even in pep_delicious's own Prodigem torrent feed. If you'd like to discuss PEP or the API (or this blog), that can be done in Prodigem's Forums.

By Gary Lerhaupt, 02:04 AM in prodigem | Comments (0)