This repository provides metadata for the German Workingdraft podcast episodes.
The data in episodes.json is (mostly) maintained manually, thus might not always contain the latest episodes. The data in contents.json is aggregated through web-scraping the wordpress of Workingdraft (see bin/update.js).
Use node bin/update.js to save scraped data to disk. Use node bin/test-wordpress.js --episode 123 to test the scraper for a specific set of episodes. Use --help on either script to see the available options.
By using rawgithub.com you can import all our data directly into JSFiddle, JSBin, et al:
https://raw2.github.com/workingdraft/metadata/master/data/episodes.json
becomes
https://rawgithub.com/workingdraft/metadata/master/data/episodes.json
I wanted to have machine-readable data to toy with visualizing Workingdraft in various ways. As a second option the extracted data could be the base for moving away from wordpress, should we ever choose to do so.
All episodes metadata are (manually) tracked in data/episodes.json, participating people are tracked in data/people.json. All episodes content (parsed from Wordpress) are available in data/contents.json (all episodes in one file) and data/episodes/12345.json (single episode per file).
The episode index data/episodes.json contains general metadata:
{
"12345": {
// number of the episode
"id": 12345,
// date the episode was published
"date": "2015-01-02",
// the length of the episode, 1 hour, 2 minutes and 3 seconds.
// an optional fourth component (01:02:03:04) denotes microseconds
"duration": "01:02:03",
// [optional] livestream data
// can be a boolean true to denote the episode was streamed, but has no link
"live": [
{
// livestream's title
"title": "Revision 136",
// link to livestream (website, not audio file!)
"href": "http://livestre.am/4BJRA",
// duration of livestream recording
// usually longer than the episode because preliminary discussions are streamed,
// but are not officially published
"duration": "01:02:03",
// date of the livestream - this is earlier than the episode's date, as
// episode date is date of publishing, livestream date is date of recording
"date": "2015-01-02"
}
],
// participants in the episode - details tracked in data/people.json
"people": [
"ddprt",
"derSchepp",
"drublic",
"rodneyrehm",
"sir_pepe"
],
// link to the episode's trello board
"trello": "https://trello.com/.../",
// link to the episode's blog post
"href": "http://workingdraft.de/12345/",
// [optional] link to the episode's audio file
"audio": "http://workingdraft.de/some/path/to/file/12345.mp3",
// [optional] link to the episode's video
"video": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFEiw0SEMyw",
// the episode's title
"title": "Some Catchy Episode Title"
}
}The people participating in workingdraft are tracked in data/people.json:
{
// id used to reference in data/episodes.hson
"markus_schlegel": {
// real name
"name": "Markus Schlegel",
// [optional] member of the core team [from, till]
"team": [
"2010-11-02",
"2011-11-08"
],
// [optional] links to various web profiles (twitter, web, xing)
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/markus_schlegel",
"web": "http://markus-schlegel.com/"
},
}An episode's content is tracked in data/episodes/12345.json:
{
"id": 12345,
// date the episode was published
"date": "2015-01-02",
// the length of the episode, 1 hour, 2 minutes and 3 seconds.
// an optional fourth component (01:02:03:04) denotes microseconds
"duration": "01:02:03",
// participants in the episode - details resolved from data/people.json
"people": [
{
"name": "Rodney Rehm",
"team": [
"2011-09-16"
],
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/rodneyrehm"
},
{
"name": "Peter Kröner",
"team": [
"2010-11-02"
],
"twitter": "https://twitter.com/sir_pepe"
}
],
// [optional] livestream data
// can be a boolean true to denote the episode was streamed, but has no link
"live": [
{
// livestream's title
"title": "Revision 136",
// link to livestream (website, not audio file!)
"href": "http://livestre.am/4BJRA",
// duration of livestream recording
// usually longer than the episode because preliminary discussions are streamed,
// but are not officially published
"duration": "01:02:03",
// date of the livestream - this is earlier than the episode's date, as
// episode date is date of publishing, livestream date is date of recording
"date": "2015-01-02"
}
],
// link to the episode's trello board
"trello": "https://trello.com/.../",
// link to the episode's blog post
"href": "http://workingdraft.de/12345/",
// [optional] link to the episode's audio file
"audio": "http://workingdraft.de/some/path/to/file/12345.mp3",
// [optional] link to the episode's video
"video": "http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aFEiw0SEMyw",
// the episode's title
"title": "Some Catchy Episode Title",
// [optional] the episode's brief meta-description (HTML)
"description": "Some Episode Description.",
// [optional] the topics ("Schaunotizen") that were discussed in this episode
"topics": [
{
// the topic that was discussed
"title": "Some Topic",
// [optional] link to the topic
"href": "http://example.com/some-topic",
// [optional] the point in time the topic started being discussed
"time": "01:02:03",
// [optional] a description of what was discussed (HTML)
"description": "Some Description"
}
],
// [optional] the news ("News") that were stated in this episode
"news": [
// same format as topic content
],
// [optional] the links ("Keine Schaunotizen") that were suggested in this episode
"links": [
// same format as topic content
],
// [optional] the random specifications ("HTML5-Glücksrad") that were explained in this episode
"randomSpec": [
// same format as topic content
]
}- [wordpress] consider fixing timestamps (
00:00:00) where present - [wordpress] consider adding timestamps where presently not available
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