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Thanks but I really need a third-party cloud service, any idea?

Idea: self-host with a Linux VPS in the cloud.

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Screenshot Captor / Re: Sending picture as URL
« on: March 01, 2024, 10:11 AM »
Hello James,

You can use an API for an image uploading service such as https://bashify.io/api

If you need help implementing it, just "shout". This is a helpful community :Thmbsup:

Cheers!

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PublicDomainVic / Re: AddressBooker - Webpage to Address Book
« on: February 29, 2024, 05:06 PM »
I run windows 10 currently but expect to have to shift to windows11 at some point.   I also have a linux Mint machine but was not expecting this to work there. 

Thank you. The first ALPHA version should be coming up. I'm running an Ubuntu-based distro (20.04) so it might as well be Linux since I'm using it with good results.

Puppeteer programming is logical and I'm confident this is the way forward since basically all the sites & webmasters account for Chrome/Chromium. The only complaint is the ~400MB overall release package size but we'll cope with it.


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PublicDomainVic / Re: AddressBooker - Webpage to Address Book
« on: February 25, 2024, 08:10 PM »
@sphere

- What's your current Windows version?

I'm flipping and flopping between C# and JavaScript/TypeScript. I have more experience with C# for the desktop but it sounds like some form of node integration is unavoidable here.

My aim is doing this right, so any webpage that Chrome can display we can scrape correctly (regardless of size/megabytes or old Windows compatibility). This solves the many (many!) configuration issues that working with multiple browsers and versions of such  browsers can bring, right off the bat.

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PublicDomainVic / Re: AddressBooker - Webpage to Address Book
« on: February 25, 2024, 04:23 PM »
Extract contact information, contact photo (see original forum post) from web page (by monitoring the clipboard) and bulk process saved pages from a folder directory ( https://github.com/g...meau/SingleFile/wiki )

As the actual implementation of this main feature happens, there have been some considerations:

- Libraries dealing with direct HTML scrapping were all discarded (sites can and do load dynamically via scripts regularly).

- We originally discussed Selenium + chromedriver. I am familiar with good ol' Selenium since many years ago but I'm using this first web scrapper of 2024 for having a go at some of the more-modern libraries, particularly Google's Puppeteer (https://github.com/puppeteer/puppeteer), which is looking like the way to go.

It's a bulky package when working with Chrome for testing, but it is guaranteed to work since the integration is made at the developer level as a first-party tool (an "indivisible entity with Chromium").

It may mean a bit of an upfront learning curve for a couple more days but seems that investing in Google's Puppeteer can make AddressBooker a proper "headless" scrapper for the modern web (given the requirements are the likes of Instagram, Facebook and the program is likely going to be used with more of the modern social webs).

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 25, 2024, 03:44 PM »
TIMP's package got "bulkier" due to the new Media Info library.

MediaInfo wrapper with required DLLs turned out to be ~27MB.

I'm checking Taglib-sharp as a lighter weight alternative (given you said a < 5MB TIMP package to be ideal, it's worth to check this venue). EDIT: TagLibSharp.dll is half a megabyte @ ~0.5MB; we go with it for the time being.

(We keep the same plan for TrackBar & settings on next release. It's only the media tags processing that's being altered)

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PublicDomainVic / Re: AddressBooker - Webpage to Address Book
« on: February 24, 2024, 10:46 AM »
Thats great news!  Looking forward to it. Thank you.

I'm happy to assist in bringing your brainchild to life! :-* Having the first ALPHA of AdressBooker available for commenting on its functionality is the goal for this weekend :Thmbsup:

Stay tuned!

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(Official dedicated thread for the new "AddressBooker" program is to be posted!)

Done! Thread is published @ https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=53987.0

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PublicDomainVic / AddressBooker - Webpage to Address Book
« on: February 23, 2024, 09:48 PM »
This is based on fellow member @sphere's request:


After some brainstorming & discussion, the planned feature set for the program is:

AdressBooker v1 roadmap:

  • Extract contact information, contact photo (see original forum post)  from web page (by monitoring the clipboard) and bulk process saved pages from a folder directory ( https://github.com/gildas-lormeau/SingleFile/wiki )
  • Pull information from  ‘+” link on (ie instagram)
  • User will be presented with a dialog when an URL that contains a website from the template/definitions list is copied. 
  • Dialogue box will have:
  • Option to select and/or add group/category,  tags and short note from dialogue box/
  • Option to include webpage title and source url when collecting information.
  • User definable hotkey to pause clipboard monitoring in case user wants to clip address without triggering app.

Additional settings:
  • Ability to edit and create new page templates.

Information will be collected into an Addressbook that will be developed later to group/sort contacts add some notes etc.
-sphere

GitHub Repo @ https://github.com/publicdomain/addressbooker

Development of AddressBooker has officially begun! :Thmbsup:

Cheers!
Vic

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 23, 2024, 09:30 PM »
:Thmbsup: Well a fresh omelet was never made without breaking a couple of eggs... :P

haha! Yes & indeed.

Sorry, yesterday I fell asleep "on the keyboard" & today I had to "reshuffle" things a bit to attend/accommodate the weekend & end-of-the-month schedule but things are back on track.

TIMP's package got "bulkier" due to the new Media Info library.



I'm certain the trackbar + settings processing can be done with a few hours of focused coding. I'm "juggling the time" for it... These are the last modifications, we're very close to the happy news of TIMP's successful completion and calling it a WIN too :Thmbsup:

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 22, 2024, 01:43 PM »
Oh noooo... our first error trying to scan sub directories... I hope this isn't serious?

That's minimal, no problem.

Okay! I'm staying home & currently focused at making the song info columns fill-up correctly, extracting running time for the playing TrackBar, and other new "Goodies" to make TIMP feature-complete today.

This minimal FileSystem error should be ephemeral. Again, no worries!

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VICtory over Shutdown B as it interfaces wonderfully with the current version of TIMP ... so this will definitely on track to be better than Shutdown 8 and I can't wait to see the Frankenstein that has emerged from the two... I say this is a WIN so far!!

FAN-TAS-TIC! fantastic The focus is on making TIMP feature-complete for us to call it a WIN+WIN and proceed to the merger :Thmbsup:

> Vic rolls-up the "coding sleeves" to bring good news of completion...

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 22, 2024, 01:17 PM »
Umm I did as you said... and no extra beep? I copied over a wave file and renamed it ent_screen02.wav... but it does not sound for the icons or the shortcut commands? Am I doing something wrong?

Cool, no worries. If I recall right, the code is there in the ALPHA.4 program but please don't mind since I'm coding & packaging while making sure everything works for a successful v0.5.0 release later today.

I'm taking care of it so you don't have to worry; a working auditory feedback is coming in the very next feature-complete release :Thmbsup:

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 22, 2024, 04:59 AM »
I wonder if the slider might be a related to volume or to show the song's progress?

The slider is being developed for song's progress :)

Although I haven't tried out the levels of searching subdirectories yet, but I'm really impressed with this development.

Glad you're liking it. This is your grown-up brainchild  :-*

Yet, I wonder when you will introduce the haptic feedback into Timp?

Oh! Forgot to mention: the code for auditory feedback is there already! Feel free to add the "ent_screen02.wav" file into TIMP's folder for this version to hear it.

SO many details on this tiny but mighty app! (A custom-made petite wonder ;D)

I'll package the whole thing into the final v0.5.0 release later today... in the mean time, please confirm the new version of ShutdownB is complete:

Reply @ https://www.donationcoder.com/forum/index.php?topic=53917.msg453370#msg453370

 :Thmbsup:

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 21, 2024, 05:34 PM »
TIMP v0.5.0-alpha.5, the final alpha version, is uploaded:


TIMP_v0-5-0-alpha-5_hotkeys-enabled.png

The active hotkey combinations are:

  • CTRL+ALT+RIGHT = Play next track.
  • CTRL+ALT+LEFT = Play previous track.
  • CTRL+ALT+UP = Trigger PlayPause.
  • CTRL+ALT+DOWN = Repeat current track.

Very minimal and easy to remember



This final ALPHA also has other improvements such as extended "Tip" info on mouse hover and click:

TIMP_v0-5-0-alpha-5_extended-tip.png



Next version takes TIMP out of ALPHA and into feature complete status :Thmbsup:

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 21, 2024, 12:58 AM »
Okay! v0.5.0-alpha.4 brings it to +90% :up::


This version enables Explorer integration menu & Start on logon:

TIMP_v0-5-0-alpha-4_config.png

TIMP_v0-5-0-alpha-4_open-with-TIMP.png

Next (final) alpha version enables Hotkeys  :)

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... it gives me errors 426, 401 for some websites especially HTTPS.

426 is "upgrade required" (the destination server refuses to accept the current protocol).
401 is "unauthorized", since it needs authentication.

You may want to try another scraper but since cloud based means using someone else's server resources, they are likely to ask for some $ at some point. There is a list of "cloud based web scrapping solutions" at:

You can find some free tiers there :up:

Do notice cloud scraper prices can be way overpriced when compared with hosting your own.

The most efficient way is of course having your own web scraper configured in a server under your control -even if the hosting/server fee itself is free. The important part is having the ability to modify the scraper to account for HTML changes and being flexible in the ways to interact with the destination server as time goes by.



Relevant questions:

What frequency do you need to have? (daily, hourly, other)

When you say "monitor a webpage for changes" do you mean any change on the page or is it a certain portion of the contents within the page?

...You can actually get away with using only the "Last-Modified" header in the first case.

If it has to do with monitoring specific contents, then yes, a regular web scraper is due.



BTW I'm coding a "Webpage to Address book" program right now, so I can be of help/assistance since the first part of parsing data from the web is essentially scraping .

Cheers!
Vic

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The command input works ok... but the timer function is locked on 0...

You're right! Thank you! Rest assured your personal input is helpful indeed! (It is based on what you need and that's the most important thing :))

Please confirm the timer update is fixed/working on this new v0.1.1 updated version:

Download: ShutdownB_v0-1-1.zip
GitHub tag: https://github.com/publicdomain/shutdownb/releases/tag/v0.1.1

(So we can call it feature-complete :Thmbsup:)

Thanks :-*

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 20, 2024, 12:51 PM »
Hmm maybe by the third alpha the issue might be solved... You were typing some of my same thoughts at the same time...  :P

Of course we're all connected! :) I'm devoting full day to work on making TIMP as close to feature-complete as possible.

THIRD Alpha of TIMP v0.5.0 is here:


TIMP_v0-5-0-alpha-3_Playback-buttons.png

TIMP_v0-5-0-alpha-3_Actions-menu.png

TIMP_v0-5-0-alpha-3_SortShuffle-Hide-Exit_buttons.png

Please also confirm ShutdownB is complete as per your requirements --it should be fully functional :Thmbsup:

Reply @ https://www.donation....msg453291#msg453291

(When we have both programs fully approved by you, then we merge them. Right now it's your time to stay tuned on development & call/confirm completion :) They're your programs! The #1 user is certainly you hence the support goes both-ways: user + programmer. We're a TEAM on TIMP :-*)

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 20, 2024, 09:33 AM »
Hello again! I'm pushing third ALPHA with all the buttons enabled :Thmbsup:

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 17, 2024, 12:04 PM »
We continue advancing with TIMP v0.5.0-alpha.2:


Loop mode is complete:

TIMP_v0-5-0-alpha-1_Loop-mode.png

TIMP_v0-5-0-alpha-1_Loop-menu.png

(Both the loop context menu and the tri-state check box are interlinked: modifying one automatically auto-configures the other)

The following matching commands are available now:

  • TIMP.exe /looplist
  • TIMP.exe /loopone
  • TIMP.exe /noloop



Autoplay control/config is also enabled:

TIMP_v0-5-0-alpha-1_autoplay.png

The matching autoplay commands are:

  • TIMP.exe /autoplay
  • TIMP.exe /noautoplay



The "Scan subdirectories" option is also working:

TIMP_v0-5-0-alpha-1_scan-subdirectories.png

Regressions continue to be fixed with each new version :) :Thmbsup:

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 16, 2024, 12:27 AM »
I think once the song repeat function works out, I'm curious to see how that merger would look actually... I mean if the program was activated without any input command lines, would it start shutdown b? Also, could the program still be small?

It sounds like a fascinating idea/tool nonetheless.... :Thmbsup:

Hello again!  :) Okay, I may have gotten carried away on the new functionality added to your TIMP program for you to enjoy...  (Yet it's all for the better!) Here's an ALPHA/in-development version of what is being packed into the program:


It has regressions (e.g. you must click the list to hear). Please stand tight.



I'm pouring my heart developing ALL of the functionality you see in this preliminary version to completion, in order to make TIMP a superb and light/small program you can enjoy entirely in the very next days; a Valentine's gift with a multiplier!!!  :-*

(As you can see by the new right-click menu, that's plenty of the good stuff)

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A user-configurable custom web scrapper should be able to perform this in a very smooth way.

Talks with @sphere are advanced regarding the creation of such as custom web scrapper :)

We've been brainstorming back & forth and there's a pretty good idea as to what's needed to achieve a proper release :Thmbsup:

(Official dedicated thread for the new "AddressBooker" program is to be posted!)

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@luvnbeast

Please confirm the latest v0.1.0 is complete as per your requirements:


Thank you!  :-* :Thmbsup:

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N.A.N.Y. 2024 / Re: TIMP - Tray Icon Music Player [N.A.N.Y. 2024]
« on: February 12, 2024, 11:31 AM »
Right-click integration afterwards  ...

Happy news!! I'm developing the new extended ID3 playlist + new buttons based on your icons to give you an amazing Valentine's Day gift

TIMP_0-5-0_ALPHA-1.png

You deserve it AMIGO!

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