Working on this now, have a class but it should be done in about an hour.

EDIT: Done, I haven't had an enormous amount of time to check it but it should work now. There's an option to use the twitch.tv link on the main page, or if you go to http://tftv-randomizer.herokuapp.com/random.php?twitch

Hi all. A couple days ago, this TF2 twitch streams discussion thread was posted to talk about how to, among other things, increase viewership to TF2 streams. A couple posts, this one in particular, expressed interest in a button or website that would randomly load up a stream. So, I made a site for that.

The website is currently hosted at http://tftv-randomizer.herokuapp.com. I've made a TinyURL of the actual randomizing mechanism, http://tinyurl.com/tftv-rand. It's a pretty simple PHP site, it just pulls the streams from TFTV, randomly selects one, and redirects you. I've put the code up on Github at http://github.com/PsychicNoodles/tftv-stream-randomizer.

It pulls the currently live listed streams on TFTV using another project I made, an unofficial JSON API. You can find it at http://tftv-api.herokuapp.com (I really like Heroku), the homepage redirects to a Github page with information on usage. I originally made it with the intention of making a mobile or desktop app, but I've kinda halted on that for the time being as I'm more of a developer than a designer. Fortunately, it's found some use here.

Feel free to do whatever you want with the code, it's GPL licensed but I can't imagine anyone wanting to privatize it.

Please post any ideas, concerns, etc. here. Again, the website design's pretty bad compared to TFTV, but hopefully your eyes don't bleed too badly and it functionally works. Apologies in advance if I take a while to respond, I'm currently in school so I can only check during free periods.

This is actually something that I've already done. I put together a little PHP project that does essentially that: it scrapes the HTML, grabs elements from all the sections of TFTV, and returns it in JSON. I was actually planning on making a mobile app or a notification desktop app, but I made the API first so I wouldn't have to re-parse HTML in multiple languages (and the same for other people). While I agree that there should be some sort of communication or official API with enigma, hopefully this can work in the meantime.

The site is available at tftv-api.herokuapp.com. Going to that specific URL should redirect to the project's Github page which has documentation on usage. The API itself it accessed by adding /api/[page.php] to the end. It's pretty simple, all that most pages require is a GET request and a parameter or two.

dyz, I'll also add you when I get home today.

Badly made Engineer...

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