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Web Link Captor / Web Link Captor - Tips and Tricks and Share Your Scripts

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 08:24 PM »

Thought I'd start a thread for tips and tricks of using Web Link Captor, and for sharing custom scripts that people have written.

Here's a quick trick:
If you have a list of urls, you can get WLC to make a nice list for you that automatically fetches the web page titles for each and produces a nice formatted list from them.

Example, inputs:

Code: Text [Select]

http://www.techsupportalert.com/best-free-screen-capture-utility.htm
http://www.wired.com/geekdad/2011/12/5-alternatives-to-paypal/
http://www.rgdot.com/bl/

Now i set my output format to: --format bbcode --hrlink --hrtitle --rmax 0 --hlist

And click run, and the result is:

I'd like to invite anyone who has written a custom script/tool for Web Link Captor to please share it. And I'm happy to help people get started writing them -- so just holler if you get stuck.

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General Software Discussion / PC World: Free Downloads That Are Worth a Donation, Part 2 (Recommends a DC app)

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 08:09 PM »

From PC World on Saturday (December 9, 2011):

In the second part of our donationware series, we introduce a few hidden gems that you can download and use for free. All of these programs accept contributions, and some support charities.

After recommending a bunch of tools, the article wraps up thusly:

Finally, you might think so highly of these applications that you just have to share them with the world. You're welcome to share the link to this review, of course--but if you'd like to demonstrate how you use a certain app, I suggest Screenshot Captor.

http://www.pcworld.c...donation_part_2.html

Screenshot - 12_11_2011 , 8_08_28 PM_thumb.png

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LaunchBar Commander / Re: Version 1.129.01 - Tab page confused about submenu

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 04:50 PM »

Please do send it to me ([email protected]) and i'll have a look.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Java Interfaces - huh?

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 03:51 PM »

What I told josh when he asked me this question, is that this is actually one of the more interesting and hot topics in programming language design.. the debate between Interfaces and OOP Inheritance.

It is well worth reading up on.. Perhaps people can recommend their favorite essays on the subject after a little web searching..

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Web Link Captor / Re: Latest Web Link Captor Release - v1.08.01 - December 24, 2011

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 03:49 PM »

Leaving aside the specific issue of getting data from CHS.. Let me say that it would absolutely be possible to have the program "search" for "results" not on the web, but in a local database or text file catalog, etc. and there is no reason that the results would necessarily have to be urls.

And in a more general sense, the codebase for this program is really all about instantiating chains of parameterized processing scripts that work on (text) files.. and the code may have additional uses in creating different programs that do different things but use the same paradigm of letting user assemble and configure chains of batch scripts to run.

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Web Link Captor / Re: Latest Web Link Captor Release - v1.08.01 - December 24, 2011

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 10:50 AM »

I've uploaded two video screencasts of the program in action:

Video 1 is four minutes and just shows the program in action:

Screenshot - 12_24_2011 , 8_05_58 AM.png

.

Video 2 is ten minutes long and goes into more detail:

Screenshot - 12_11_2011 , 10_48_38 AM.png

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Web Link Captor / Re: Latest Web Link Captor Release - v1.08.01 - December 24, 2011

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 04:59 AM »

I hope the program is useful to people. There is a lot that could still be added to it. I will be posting a screencast video tutorial in the next day or so.

And lastly.. If you'd like to see this program continue to be developed, please consider making a donation -- It would be very appreciated. Thank you

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Web Link Captor / Re: Latest Web Link Captor Release - v1.08.01 - December 24, 2011

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 04:57 AM »

One of the major goals of the program is to provide a flexible way to rank and filter search results.

This can be done interactively using the result grid, by using pattern matching to modify scores, by adding terms and options to web searches, and by using external processing scripts to apply heuristics.

In such a way one can hope to filter out results that are undesirable and favor sites that are more likely to have good results.

I'm hoping that people will write and share additional such filter and search scripts with us to improve the program. The included scripts are written in python and it's (relatively) easy to add your own new ones to the system.

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Mircryption / Re: MircryptionKeys.txt.bak file ?

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 04:53 AM »

Are you using the windows mirc version or unix/linux version?

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Web Link Captor / Re: Latest Web Link Captor Release - v1.08.01 - December 24, 2011

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 04:45 AM »

As a super simple example of the kinds of things that WLC can do, I put in a list of a few of my favorite bands, and click "Run" to get the following output, ready to paste in a forum post:

Input:

Cat Power - The Greatest
Bikini Kill - Reject All American
The Doo Wop Box - Volume one
Dexy's Midnight Runners - Greatest Hits

Output (raw):

[Select]

[url=http://www.amazon.com/Greatest-Cat-Power/dp/B000C0X3ZC]Cat Power[/url]
[url=http://www.amazon.com/Reject-All-American-Bikini-Kill/dp/B00000373N]Bikini Kill[/url]
[url=http://www.amazon.com/Doo-Wop-Box-Various-Artists/dp/B00000333M]The Doo Wop Box[/url]
[url=http://www.amazon.com/Too-Rye-Ay-Dexys-Midnight-Runners/dp/B00005Y1ZF]Dexy's Midnight Runners[/url]

Output:

And here's output from a different kind of search and output on those same bands:

Cat Power:

Bikini Kill:

The Doo Wop Box:

Dexy's Midnight Runners:

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Screenshot Captor / Re: LATEST MiniCap VERSION INFO THREAD - v1.25.01 - Nov 13, 2011

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 04:37 AM »

Hi Srpirny,

Sorry for the delay in replying -- i've spent the last couple of weeks working non-stop on a new program and I'm a bit behind in other things.
I will try to add ability to pass the print settings via commandline.

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Mircryption / Re: MircryptionKeys.txt.bak file ?

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 04:35 AM »

I'm sure it's ok but I don't remember what it is $:-\$

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Web Link Captor / Re: Latest Web Link Captor Release - v1.08.01 - December 24, 2011

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 04:24 AM »

The program will be officially released as part of NANY 2012, on January 1st, 2012.

BUT If you would like to try it early, just send me a personal message via the forum or email me ([email protected]) and I will send you a link.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Pledge Teaser: Web Link Captor, aka LL Robot

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 04:23 AM »

I'm locking this thread so that discussions about WLC can now take place in the:

Official forum section for Web Link Captor.

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Web Link Captor / Latest Web Link Captor Release - v1.11.01 - Dec 17, 2013

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 04:20 AM »

Web Link Captor is my new application, which was created as part of the NANY 2012 event at DonationCoder.com

Web Link Captor is a program that takes a list of plaintext items, and builds an output document containing a list of url-linked results based on web searches for the items. It's a way to quickly build a clickable list of items from just their names, suitable for posting on your blog or a forum, etc.

Download latest version from Official Web Page: HERE (download now available to the public).

Watch videos of the program in action: Part 1 and Part 2.

Features:

Friendly GUI lets you build flexible sets of processing steps to parse plaintext input lists and perform search and output functions.
You can save and load projects and script configurations for easy re-use.
Uses a set of standalone utility scripts that can be run without the windows front end GUI, and can be easily modified and expanded.
The included backend scripts are in Python (but other languages can be used)
Uses caching to avoid repeating web searches unnecessarily.
Comes with output formatters for HTML, BBCode, Markdown/Wikipedia
Comes with searching engines for google, and bing/opensearch (which can handle amazon, wikipedia, and many others)
Flexible scoring system lets you interactively or programmatically tweak your results to get the best list of links.

Version History

v1.11.01 - December 17, 2013

[Feature] Scripts now create different temporary filenames in temp directory to make it much easier to debug where a search or manipulation script went wrong.
[Documentation] Added help information for how to narrow a search to a specific site in google and how to add text to input.
[BugFix] Excerpts in result grid that contained newlines were messing up the result grid (and potentially the results).
[Feature] Option to check for updates at startup.

v1.10.01 - April 17, 2012

[BugFix] Double-quotes in search strings were not being handled properly and resulting in 0 results

v1.08.01 - December 24, 2011

[Feature] Now packaging with a minimal python addon included

v1.07.01 - December 23, 2011

[Feature] New script combobox is hierarchical.
[Feature] Script Tool files now specified hierarchical path and unique identifier which will make it easier to change tool labels without losing track of scripts.
[Feature] Better error reporting on missing scripts.

v1.06.01 - December 22, 2011

[MinorFeature] Added plaintext output script
[BugFix] Fixed bug where blank labels could cause crash
[Minor Feature] New option in output to remove labels from items
[MinorFeatures] Minor improvements

v1.05.01 - December 15, 2011

[MajorFeature] You can now download Python2 addon pack for the program, rather than using a standard python installation.
[MinorFeatures] Lots of small user interface improvements.

v1.03.01 - December 13, 2011

[MajorFeature] Embedded Python 2.7 DLL mode option -- MUCH faster
[Feature] Improved all python scripting invocation features and options and error reporting
[MinorFeature] Added more gui options including ability to hide help panels
[MinorFeature] Small improvements to tools (ability to show readme links)

v1.02.01 - December 13, 2011

[MajorFeature] You can now use an embedded DLL python interpretter option
[Feature] Cache controls from options
[Feature] Includes additional search scripts from ewemoa (thanks) [note they require some additional module installations]
[MinorFeature] Reports elapsed time for operations
[MinorFeature] Scripts can now include readme files and link to them from their tool descriptions.
[MinorFeature] Some reorganization of script files
[MinorFeature] Hover over links shows url in statusbar of web preview.

v1.01.05 - December 11, 2011

Regular expression script improvements -- should be faster and may work on Python 2.6 now

v1.01.04 - December 11, 2011

Tools/Scripts improvements
Minor GUI tweaks

You can read the original NANY2012 discussion that led to this program here.

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Mircryption / Re: MircryptionKeys.txt.bak file ?

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 04:17 AM »

Hi irc,

Yep, that's normal -- it's simply a backup of your keys file, also encrypted.

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Living Room / Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend

« Last post by mouser on December 11, 2011, 02:02 AM »

Another follow up -- several people actually emailed me or forum messaged me right away to let me know about the forum personal message spammer -- but when they copied me the message he was sending in their email, what happened was that the emails to me got filtered out by spamassassin as speam and never made it to me!!

so if it happens again, someone make sure to send me a note about it without including the actual text of the spam message.

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General Software Discussion / Re: Cnet's Download.com and the installer scam

« Last post by mouser on December 10, 2011, 02:27 PM »

BoingBoing writes about it:
http://boingboing.ne...ad-com-secretly.html

"CNet's Download.com has been secretly installing adware alongside the free and open source software in its archive, in violation of its own stated policies, which claim "zero tolerance" for adware. EFF has some harsh words and stern advice for the company to make this right..."

The harder the internet comes down on cnet for what it did, the better for all of us, and the less likely the deceptive behavior is to happen again.

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General Software Discussion / Re: rename pdf, word, etc files based on their text content

« Last post by mouser on December 10, 2011, 09:37 AM »

is there any tool that will rename files like pdf, word, etc based on their content text?

i have often thought that a commandline utility that could take a pdf file, grab its title, author, and date and rename it to some combination of those, would be EXTREMELY useful.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Big Bang Theory Sound Quotes (for Android devices)

« Last post by mouser on December 10, 2011, 09:33 AM »

I'm starting to get quite curious about mobile development.. I really look forward to hearing more from you about your experience coding this.

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Living Room / Re: nice personal message just received from a new friend

« Last post by mouser on December 10, 2011, 08:04 AM »

Just as a follow up -- I'm glad someone alerted me to this spammer -- he sent a couple hundred forum spam messages before he was caught. I'm putting in place something to stop this from happening again.

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DC Website Help and Extras / Re: SPAM email

« Last post by mouser on December 10, 2011, 07:47 AM »

hi magician62,

I'm fairly certain what you are seeing is not an email directly from a spammer to you, but a spammer who signed up to the forum and sent you a forum message -- delivered by our forum to you.

the difference is that no one got access to your email address -- they just sent you a message through our forum.

see this thread for others who got it too: https://www.donation...ex.php?topic=29211.0

but note that they can't send too many messages so the scale of the spamming was small.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Release: Web Link Captor, aka LL Robot

« Last post by mouser on December 10, 2011, 05:59 AM »

The program has an official new name: Web Link Captor

And another two screenshots:
Screenshot - 12_10_2011 , 5_58_37 AM.png

Screenshot - 12_10_2011 , 7_30_53 AM.png

Is is now a functional working program and is currently undergoing some testing and tweaking.

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N.A.N.Y. 2012 / Re: NANY 2012 Ground Rules, Submission Template & Goals

« Last post by mouser on December 10, 2011, 05:32 AM »

I've updated thread to make clear that the pledge deadline is extended up until days before new year -- so everyone is welcome to participate.

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FARR Plugins and Aliases / Re: ShowDesktop

« Last post by mouser on December 10, 2011, 05:04 AM »

nice work zircle!!

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