Resolved API?

[Zell 17]

Is there an API for accessing forum related data

 

[Crystal]

Is there an API for accessing forum related data

Officially no, but if there's something specific you need access to I can certainly try

 

[Benzine]

posts probably, so he can automate his wolf games, and so i can get an ai to play on my behalf

 

[Crystal]

Hmm. Well we'd have to see if @Ben managed to refine his project further, that might be w hat's needed?

 

[Ben]

Hmm. Well we'd have to see if @Ben managed to refine his project further, that might be w hat's needed?

Nope, I haven't unfortunately. I didn't have time to do the actual data entry to track the old games, so I put it aside for now.

Really anyone can export a thread the same way I was. Crystal hooked me up with https://gwforums.com/converter/ to get a csv of thread contents, but it had limits to not working on huge threads and I don't think those were resolved.

There no actual API to dynamically make connections to the database, though. Just manual exports.

 

[Crystal]

Ah I forgot about the issues with larger threads, I might try and poke around later to see if there's a resolution

 

[Zell 17]

Wanted to use it to do the scripting for checking animals in the mafia thread. Ended up just saving the pages sources for the thread as a text file and then using python to parse it. @Tommy Boy seemed interested, so here:

file = open("Animals.txt","r")
data = file.read().replace("Â\xa0","")
animals = data.replace('\n','.').split(".")

phrase = "data-lb-caption-desc"
phrase2 = '<div class="bbWrapper">'
phrase3 = '<footer class="message-footer">'

text = open("Day1Page1.txt", encoding="utf8")
text1 = text.read()

temp = text1
breaks = []
posters = []
posts = []
text_break=0

while (temp.find(phrase, text_break+1) > 0):
    text_break = temp.find(phrase, text_break+1)
    breaks.append(text_break)
    posters.append(text1[text_break+22:text_break+22+text1[text_break+22:].find(" &middot")])

total = len(breaks)

for j in range(total):
    if j == total-1:
        temp = text1[breaks[j]:]
        temp = temp[:temp.find(phrase3)]
    else:
        temp = text1[breaks[j]:breaks[j+1]]
        temp = temp[:temp.find(phrase3)]
    const=1
    const2=0
    word = ""
    for i in temp:
        if i=="<":
            const = 1
        if const == 0 and i=="&":
            const2 = 1
        if const == 0 and const2 == 0 and i !='\t':
            word = word + i
        if const == 0 and i==";" and const2==1:
            const2 = 0
        if i==">":
            const=0
    posts.append(word.replace('\n',' ').replace("."," ").replace("?"," ").replace(","," ").replace('"'," ").upper())

for k in range(len(posts)):
    count = 0
    words = posts[k].split(' ')
    for l in animals:
        if l.upper() in words:
            count = count + 1
    print(posters[k] + ": " + str(count))

 

[Crystal]

Looking great @Zell 17!