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wedonnotcareHello! Given the fact that 8tracks recently announced that they will be closing down on December 31st, fans have been trying to save all the fandom playlists they can so they don't get lost when the website shuts down. Good news! There is a way to easily extract the information of all the playlists in a 8tracks tag. Here's a post explaining how to do it.
This post is meant to be a place where people who are extracting URLs from tags (of any fandom!) on 8tracks before the closing of the site can post their progress in a comment to avoid extracting the same tags multiple times. Not everyone extracting URLs will know about this post so it will be incomplete, this is just one attempt to avoid unnecessary duplicates. Anonymous commenting is enabled, so you don’t need an account to let us know your progress!
UPDATE:
Thanks to VidderKidder, we now have an excel spreadsheet that will archive the playlist info (note: the playlist text file will be in a json format, but using the spreadsheet is a super fast way to getting the metadata and the covers).
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Download: http://bit.ly/8trackback
(you will need to have Macros enabled to run the spreadsheet)
https://powerspreadsheets.com/how-to-
Use the first sheet tab to paste your URLs and click the button to run.
What it will do:
*Extract relevant meta data from the playlist page and put it in your Excel Spreadsheet
*Download the JSON file with the playlist details to a folder on your desktop (8tracks)
*Download the cover photo for each playlist to a folder on your desktop (8tracks)
What you should do:
*Paste urls on the first column of the first sheet tab
*Create a folder on your desktop called 8tracks
*Click the button.
*When you are done and you want to run a new batch copy the info to the second tab
*Clear out the old urls and relevant info on the first tab and paste in the new urls and run again.
Here's a video showing how it works: https://youtu.be/4WlI4yGW-8M
If you have any questions you can contactmorgandawn at admin@vidders.net
This post is meant to be a place where people who are extracting URLs from tags (of any fandom!) on 8tracks before the closing of the site can post their progress in a comment to avoid extracting the same tags multiple times. Not everyone extracting URLs will know about this post so it will be incomplete, this is just one attempt to avoid unnecessary duplicates. Anonymous commenting is enabled, so you don’t need an account to let us know your progress!
UPDATE:
Thanks to VidderKidder, we now have an excel spreadsheet that will archive the playlist info (note: the playlist text file will be in a json format, but using the spreadsheet is a super fast way to getting the metadata and the covers).
**********************
Download: http://bit.ly/8trackback
(you will need to have Macros enabled to run the spreadsheet)
https://powerspreadsheets.com/how-to-
Use the first sheet tab to paste your URLs and click the button to run.
What it will do:
*Extract relevant meta data from the playlist page and put it in your Excel Spreadsheet
*Download the JSON file with the playlist details to a folder on your desktop (8tracks)
*Download the cover photo for each playlist to a folder on your desktop (8tracks)
What you should do:
*Paste urls on the first column of the first sheet tab
*Create a folder on your desktop called 8tracks
*Click the button.
*When you are done and you want to run a new batch copy the info to the second tab
*Clear out the old urls and relevant info on the first tab and paste in the new urls and run again.
Here's a video showing how it works: https://youtu.be/4WlI4yGW-8M
If you have any questions you can contact
morgandawn at admin@vidders.net
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Date: 31/12/19 09:39 (UTC)"black sails" is ran through with the macro! there are some small benefits to being a small fandom.
"enjoltaire" is ran through meanwhile
edited because of the noob questions, hah
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Date: 31/12/19 13:55 (UTC)other stuff i ran through:
- valvert
- the terror
- dorian pavus
- phantom of the opera
- the vampire chronicles
- shakespeare
- fantastic beasts and where to find them
- barduil
- severus snape
- captive prince
- the witcher
(okay, two noob questions...why is the macro giving me error 500 on some playlists, is it just because 8tracks itself is giving me that page sometimes? i imagine they're facing quite a lot of traffic...re-running the macro fixes it usually, but i'm too slow as it is :d and i don't always notice
and i'm also experiencing the 0 byte json files thing -- i don't know if that is something that can be helped :( if i have time i'll just find them by id and download tracklists manually though, but i don't know how much time i have left.
my email didn't went through either, but i suppose i could be counted lucky for that since some of my questions were kinda stupid)
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Date: 31/12/19 16:38 (UTC)- general hux
- cullen rutherford
- cherik
- the song of achilles
i'm doing them really randomly, and i have no idea what i'll do with them afterwards :D
Vid show Playlists
Date: 31/12/19 17:14 (UTC)Re: Vid show Playlists
Date: 31/12/19 17:19 (UTC)thank you very much for the answer <3