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Old 07-12-2007, 15:42   #161
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Originally Posted by jdegre View Post
Yes, witte said that he "tweaked" something to make it work in the same way it was with the old site. So, I really don't know what he changed exactly, or if he changed just the skill-exporting feature...
Anyway, why don't you use this feature also for wiki-tools? Isn't it simpler to parse a CSV file than a full HTML page?
Yes, but that option didn't exist when i wrote the tool and i didn't know it would be so easy for Witte to add it. The advantage of scraping is that i can accept partial names and actually get several different skill sets, but since i haven't made use of that besides letting the user put in a shorter (but uniquely identifying) subset of his avatar name, it's not too important.

Mostly, it's that i put some effort into getting the scraping set up and don't like to abandon it now and start over on an easier implementation.
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