Pro Starcraft In English – A RSS Feed
I’ve picked up starcraft fever again. And, I’ve started watching professional games out of Korea.
For all of us non-Koreans, we’re able to get the videos in VOD form; that is, someone records the match from TV and posts it to the internet for the rest of us. However, these matches are almost always commentated in Korean. They’re still exciting to watch, but the commentary adds a lot to understanding why the players are playing how they’re playing.
Fortunately, GOM TV has started to provide internet-only english coverage of their tournament with tasteless, an American starcraft progamer. This is available in both a live format and as a series of recorded videos after the match (VOD). Also, there are a number of excellent amateur commentators that provide english commentary over top of Korean VODs, from sc2gg.com.
Obviously, I want to follow these games, but who wants to visit a bunch of sites just to keep up to date in this day and age of RSS? SC2GG’s aggregation is particularly bad: they only link to the individual commentator’s youtube pages and leave it from there.
Enter Yahoo! Pipes: a very handy web 2.0 mashup tool thing. It provides a method of aggregating and manipulating several different types of sources on the internet, but in my case, RSS feeds were available for everything, so my sources are all RSS. What I did was combine all of the youtube feeds for each SC2GG commentator, and GOMTV’s coverage, filter out non-starcraft entries, cut off entries from longer than a week ago, and sort the whole thing by the date it was published. The result: a RSS feed of Pro Starcraft games with English commentary. Or, you can view the Yahoo! Pipe itself, which allows you to get the output in several other formats, or take a look at the internals of how the pipe works, as long as you have a Yahoo! account. Pipes are pretty cool.
If anyone knows of any other sources of English commentary for Starcraft, let me know, and I’ll work on incorporating it into my feed.
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