Some time around 2017 I came up with the idea to create a jQuery page
to search for songs and artist in the AT40 archive of shows.
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I found there were over 900 links to shows in the main page and the searching for Songs or Artist was a very slow process.
I came up with the idea to parse the pages and put the information in a database. I created parsing methods and improved on them
as time went on. I wanted to at least finish the 1970s as I often listened to old AT40 shows on Sirius XM Seventies on 7. I would do a few weeks (the process parses a week at a time)
lie it down for a while and come back to it.
Recently I started doing it more regularly while listening to the show. In May of 2024 I had an idea that improved
greatly the speed at which I could get weeks done. I finished the 70s and started breezing through the 80s. On 7 June 2024 I posted on
Facebook "Mission accomplished" and said I had completed it. It had turned out that I had not done the end
of year lists nor had I done 1988 as the links were in a different format and I wasn't picking them up. However, since then I have
completed all of the Casey Kasem years on AT40.
The data as input at the AT40 archive site
(Primary Source)
had many errors in that they would put the same song or artist in with different names. I tried to catch this but I missed an awful many records and I
still fix them as I discover them. If you click on a song or an artist in a weekly list it will list the item with the wrong items below it. This data still
needs work.
If you are looking at a particular week you can go to the next or the previous week with the Back and Advance buttons. Or select a week via the pulldown.
You can search for a particular song or a particular artist using the Song and Artist buttons on the left. You filter the list until you find what you want,
click the checkbox on the left and then click the
Select button. to bring them
up. You can click on multiple buttons and then select. These buttons will remain selected for future searches unless you clear them or refresh the page.
The
Search allows you to look for Songs, WrongSongs, Artist and Wrong Artist all at the same time.
Only one of these can be seen at a time.
There was some data that the archive advertised but was not able to load and is listed in "Missing Weeks". I hopeful that some of this will be corrected as
time goes on. The list is getting shorter as some of the pages didn't load at first but then on another day they did load.
Numbers/counts explanation - after Weeks # is the count of weeks created
After Songs is the Song names count followed by the wrong Song names count
After Artists is the Artist names count followed by the wrong Artist names count
Both names and wrong names will be seen when
Search is pressed.
*** Added 7/7/2024 within
Search you may now click on
Titles which will bring you to a Titles search popup. This
weekend I also modified the
Display feature to allow more varied
input in the Date enter box. Putting in just an number (n) will give you the nth week.
*** Added 5/10/2025 added information (titles) to buttons
to give information about the button.
Added the ability to put ?w=nnn on URL and go to that week at startup
To point out something, send ideas or just say hello I can be contacted by eMail:
Send email MALudwinski@yahoo.com