Comments on: The recent Pandora update

By: Rob Napier

Rob Napier — Tue, 10 May 2011 21:07:09 +0000

@Chris Greninger The current way to talk to the interface is through keystroke injection. Even that has recently started to show problems. In any case, you can't send keystrokes this way if the app is hidden. If you hit Cmd-H, you'll notice that the keyboard shortcuts don't work anymore.

There's no general API to Pandora. Some things you can do through Javascript and some things you can't. It's mostly a Flash app.

By: Chris Greninger

Chris Greninger — Tue, 10 May 2011 00:57:40 +0000

Awesome app. I develop in Applescript and ASOC (Cocoa+Applescript) mainly and I think you've done a brilliant job so far.

Considering how the Pandora interface sucks and how you have created a way to interface with it, wouldn't it be possible to create a custom player that just sends those same commands when you click it's corresponding UI button and just hide the WebView?

That would be awesome! Just a thought...