Post Heist: The Scraper Emergeth
05-05-2013, 04:27 AM
Ladies and geveryone else, welcome to the MSPA-to-Eagle-Time Post Scraping Machine Device! I've been slaving over this hot pile of regular expressions for ages, and now it's ready to go.
Want to get your MSPAFA ported over? Now's the time! Been waiting to post in a Grand Battle until they came over? Get ready to write! The tool's been written, adjusted, tweaked, tested, fixed, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters, so there's just one thing left to do: set it loose!
Here's how you can get a thread scraped over:
If you've got any questions, I'll answer them here. As for the first wave of post-scrapings, they can happen in the next hour (or maybe two) until I head to sleep, and then I'll tackle more in the morning. Let's get to it!
Want to get your MSPAFA ported over? Now's the time! Been waiting to post in a Grand Battle until they came over? Get ready to write! The tool's been written, adjusted, tweaked, tested, fixed, lost, found, subjected to public inquiry, lost again, and finally buried in soft peat for three months and recycled as firelighters, so there's just one thing left to do: set it loose!
Here's how you can get a thread scraped over:
- Find the thread ID. (It's the number after "showthread.php?" in the MSPA URL. For example, "showthread.php?12345-Pretty-Great-Thread" has thread ID 12345.)
- Post in this thread with the name of the thread, the thread ID, and the Eagle Time subforum where it needs to go. (Don't give it to me on IRC, I'll just lose it.)
- Wait for me to run the scraper. (If you're in a rush, find me on IRC and poke me about it. If I'm around and not busy, I should be able to take care of it fairly quickly.)
- Enjoy your thread!
If you've got any questions, I'll answer them here. As for the first wave of post-scrapings, they can happen in the next hour (or maybe two) until I head to sleep, and then I'll tackle more in the morning. Let's get to it!