This tool can:
- screenscrape the commodities trading screen
- produce the results as a tab separated values file
- - **TODO** upload the results to PCTB
+ - upload the results to PCTB
To run it, change to this directory, type `make', and then:
./ypp-commodities --tsv >commods.tsv
+or
+ ./ypp-commodities --upload
While it is capturing the screenshots, do not move the mouse or use
the keyboard. Keyboard focus must stay in the YPP client window.
--screenshot-file F Store or read screenshots in F rather than #pages#.pnm
--window-id ID Specified X window is the YPP client - do not search
--edit-charset Enable character set editing. See README.dictionary.
+ --no-edit-charset Do not edit charset even if #local-char*#.txt exists.
--find-island Find and print the ocean and island. Suppresses OCR
and output unless used with result processing option.
--test-servers Set default servers to be the test servers, not
it. Don't try `display vid:#pages#.pnm' as this will consume
truly stupendous quantities of RAM - it wedged my laptop.
+ * #master-newcommods#.txt #local-newcommods#.txt
+
+ Dictionary of newly introduced commodities. When a new commodity
+ appears in Puzzle Pirates, the PCTB server operators need to add it
+ to their database for us to be able to upload data about it.
+
+ It can sometimes take a few days to do this. In the meantime, it
+ is possible to upload partial data - data just omitting that
+ commodity. This is controlled by these files: they list
+ commodities which should be automatically ignored if the PCTB
+ server doesn't know about them. The master file is downloaded and
+ updated automatically from my server. You may create the local
+ file yourself. The format is simple: one commodity per line.
+
+ Unrecognised commodities can also be due to OCR failure so
+ double-check what you're doing before overriding the uploader by
+ telling it to ignore an unrecognised commodity.
+
* #master-char*#.txt #local-char*#.txt
#master-pixmap#.txt #local-pixmap#.txt
server. This is fetched and updated automatically as necessary.
It can safely be deleted as it will then be refetched.
- * <file>.new
+ * #upload-1#.html #upload-2#.html
+
+ We screenscrape the pages from the PCTB upload server. The actual
+ HTML returned from the upload server is left in these dropping
+ files for debugging etc.
+
+ * <file>.tmp
When any of these tools overwrite one of the persistent dictionary
- files, they temporarily write to <file>.new.
+ files, they temporarily write to <file>.tmp.
These files are all in the current working directory. There is not
yet any feature to have them be somewhere else. The helper programs
~yarrgweb / ypp-sc-tools.main.git / blobdiff