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29 July, 2013-Programming, VB.NET
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Today i was trying to find a solution to grab listeners number from shoutcast servers, but i needed a
something simple and to work with both versions of shoutcast. After a few tests i end up using the shoutcast
generated XML file.

First, i made a class that will hold all members:

Class StreamServer
Public ServerName As String
Public ServerAdress As String
Public ServerPassword As String
Public StreamID As String = 0
Public ListenersCount As Integer

Public Sub New(ByVal sName As String, ByVal sAddress As String, ByVal

sPassword As String, ByVal ServerStreamID As String)
ServerName = sName Search
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StreamID = ServerStreamID
End Sub

Public Overrides Function ToString() As String Categories

Return ServerName & ": " & ListenersCount
End Function
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End Class
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And the function that gets the needed data:
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Private Function Get_XMLFile(ByVal ServerID As Integer) As Integer
Dim wcMozilla As New WebClient Video Tutorials
Dim strResponse As String = Nothing

Try
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If MyServers.Item(ServerID).StreamID > 0 Then
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strResponse =
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pass=" & MyServers.Item(ServerID).ServerPassword & "&sid=" &
MyServers.Item(ServerID).StreamID & "&mode=viewxml")
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strResponse =
wcMozilla.DownloadString(MyServers.Item(ServerID).ServerAdress & "/admin.cgi? Screenshots
pass=" & MyServers.Item(ServerID).ServerPassword & "&mode=viewxml")
End If
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ds.ReadXml(New StringReader(strResponse), XmlReadMode.Auto)
MyServers.Item(ServerID).ListenersCount = Why Sweepers Are Not Added To
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Return MyServers.Item(ServerID).ListenersCount
End Function

I added a timer that calls the “Get_XMLFile” function every 15 seconds and counts the total listeners, which
is displayed on a label.

This is the entire code:

Imports System.Xml
Imports System.Net
Imports System.Text.RegularExpressions

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Imports System.IO

Public Class Form1

Class StreamServer
Public ServerName As String
Public ServerAdress As String
Public ServerPassword As String
Public StreamID As String = 0
Public ListenersCount As Integer

Public Sub New(ByVal sName As String, ByVal sAddress As String, ByVal

sPassword As String, ByVal ServerStreamID As String)
ServerName = sName
ServerAdress = sAddress
ServerPassword = sPassword
StreamID = ServerStreamID
End Sub

Public Overrides Function ToString() As String

Return ServerName & ": " & ListenersCount
End Function

End Class

Private MyServers As New List(Of StreamServer)

Private ListenerCount As Integer = 0

Private Sub Form1_Load(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As

System.EventArgs) Handles MyBase.Load
Dim newServer As New StreamServer("My First Server",
"https://127.0.0.1:8000",
https://127.0.0.1:8000", "changeme", 0)
MyServers.Add(newServer)

newServer = New StreamServer("My Second V2 Server",

"https://127.0.0.1:8050",
https://127.0.0.1:8050", "changeme", 1)
MyServers.Add(newServer)
End Sub

Private Function Get_XMLFile(ByVal ServerID As Integer) As Integer

Dim wcMozilla As New WebClient
Dim strResponse As String = Nothing

Try
''Add a compatible header
wcMozilla.Headers.Add("user-agent", "Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE
6.0; Windows NT 5.2; .NET CLR 1.0.3705;)")

''if we have a StreamID set, we have a shoutcast V2 server

If MyServers.Item(ServerID).StreamID > 0 Then
strResponse =
wcMozilla.DownloadString(MyServers.Item(ServerID).ServerAdress & "/admin.cgi?
pass=" & MyServers.Item(ServerID).ServerPassword & "&sid=" &
MyServers.Item(ServerID).StreamID & "&mode=viewxml")
Else
strResponse =
wcMozilla.DownloadString(MyServers.Item(ServerID).ServerAdress & "/admin.cgi?
pass=" & MyServers.Item(ServerID).ServerPassword & "&mode=viewxml")
End If

Catch ex As WebException
'MsgBox(ex.Message)
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End Try

If String.IsNullOrEmpty(strResponse) = False Then

Try
Dim ds As New DataSet
ds.ReadXml(New StringReader(strResponse), XmlReadMode.Auto)
MyServers.Item(ServerID).ListenersCount =
CInt(ds.Tables(0).Rows(0).Item("CURRENTLISTENERS").ToString)
Catch ex As Exception

End Try
Else
MyServers.Item(ServerID).ListenersCount = 0
End If

Return MyServers.Item(ServerID).ListenersCount
End Function

Private Sub Timer1_Tick(ByVal sender As System.Object, ByVal e As

System.EventArgs) Handles Timer1.Tick

ListenerCount = 0

For i As Integer = 0 To MyServers.Count - 1

ListenerCount += Get_XMLFile(i).ToString
Next

Me.lbStatus.Text = "Current Listeners: " & ListenerCount.ToString

End Sub
End Class

The only drawnback of this approach is that you need to supply the admin password in order to reach the
shoucast XML.

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