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| Tweet Topic Started: Jun 6 2008, 08:16 PM (237 Views) | |
| Mr. Panda | Jun 6 2008, 08:16 PM Post #1 |
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Lord of the Manor
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I'm working on a small Python script that will browse to MAD's forums and fetch the latest topics, and report back to you. Sort of like this: New Topics In: Chat Debate --or-- No New Topics |
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| giggleguy | Jun 6 2008, 10:00 PM Post #2 |
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So, an RSS feed? |
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| Mr. Panda | Jun 7 2008, 02:04 AM Post #3 |
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Yeah, pretty much. |
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| Ethan_odd | Jun 7 2008, 04:31 AM Post #4 |
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Lord of the Manor
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I'm interested. |
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| Mr. Panda | Jun 7 2008, 06:30 AM Post #5 |
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Lord of the Manor
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So far, I've got it to pull the most recent post dates from the site. Next job: Write it to a file and save it. Next startup, compare forum scan results to saved file to check for changes. |
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| Ethan_odd | Jun 7 2008, 09:41 AM Post #6 |
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Keep goin dude! |
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| stormbreaker | Jun 7 2008, 01:12 PM Post #7 |
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Master of His Domain
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http://xkcd.com/353/ Be careful...
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| Mr. Panda | Jun 8 2008, 12:08 AM Post #8 |
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That's actually WHY I'm using Python. |
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| Mr. Panda | Jun 8 2008, 01:51 AM Post #9 |
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Lord of the Manor
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I've got it pulling Dates, Posters, and Topics. However, I'm receiving hell from, of all things, apostrophes. It just won't interpret them as apostrophes, but instead as "' ;" EDIT: Fixed. |
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| Mr. Panda | Jun 8 2008, 02:45 AM Post #10 |
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Click here to download MADReader v.01 It's nothing fancy, just a DOS prompt that pops up every time Windows starts up. Hopefully, I'll eventually add a nicer looking window and have it silently monitor the forums in the background and has a popup on new posts, or something. Oh, this one just fetches the latest posts. It doesn't tell you if there are any new posts or not. That's for v.02 |
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| Ethan_odd | Jun 8 2008, 01:24 PM Post #11 |
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Lord of the Manor
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Hell yeah. |
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| stormbreaker | Jun 10 2008, 03:23 AM Post #12 |
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You win the most pointless app award! Congrats on expanding your programing horizon! |
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| Mr. Panda | Jun 10 2008, 05:14 AM Post #13 |
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Yay! |
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