I’m a retired Unix sysadmin. Over the years I’ve built things in COBOL, FORTAN, C, perl, rexx, PHP, visual basic, various Unix shells and maybe others. Nothing has been a real “application” - mostly just utilities to help me get things done.
Now that I’m retired, and it’s cold outside, I’m curious to try some more coding - and I have an idea.
The music communities here seem to post links to YouTube. I generally use Lemmy on my phone but don’t use YouTube, or listen to music, on my phone if I can help it. I’d like to scrape a music community here and add the songs posted to a playlist in my musicbrainz account.
Does that sound like a reasonable learner project? Any suggestions for language and libraries appreciated. My preferred IDE is vim on bash and I have a home server running Linux where this could run as a daemon, or be scheduled.
It was just a recommendation. If you feel like python isn’t for you, you can try any other language and the only difference will be how much time it’ll take to make it, but otherwise you can use C if you want. Maybe you’re so used to low level programming like managing memory and having to declare types everywhere that python dumb proof approach is difficult for you. Just don’t think too hard about it, if it’s a personal use script then there’s no need to think about it’s efficiency or ugliness. If it works, it works.