Author Topic: NANY 2012 Release: Web Link Captor, aka LL Robot (Read 23172 times)

mouser · « **on:** September 06, 2011, 07:23 AM »

NANY 2012 Entry Information

One of the things I will release for NANY will be a small desktop application, temporarily named ~~LL Robot~~ Web Link Captor.

~~Nothing very fancy~~ (It's fancy

) but I think it will be useful to bloggers. It was inspired by App's father's blog on jazz music, but it has nothing to do with Jazz.

I'll post a beta as time approaches.

kyrathaba · « **Reply #1 on:** September 06, 2011, 07:57 AM »

I'm intrigued!

app103 · « **Reply #2 on:** September 06, 2011, 04:01 PM »

kyrathaba · « **Reply #3 on:** September 10, 2011, 08:15 AM »

Can you give us some more tantalizing hints, mouser?

mouser · « **Reply #4 on:** September 11, 2011, 07:56 AM »

Let me see if i can't code it this month (september) and release a beta.

kyrathaba · « **Reply #5 on:** September 21, 2011, 07:52 AM »

Rubbing hands together in anticipation ...

dMbTiger · « **Reply #6 on:** September 22, 2011, 09:14 AM »

Yeah! Looking forward to it. How is the test data I sent you?

mouser · « **Reply #7 on:** September 22, 2011, 09:21 AM »

Yesterday I sat down and planned out the application and figured out all of the unresolved issues I had regarding User Interface, so I'm pretty much ready to start coding.

dMbTiger -- we shall see soon, hopefully in the next week or so during testing; it's hard for me to anticipate how good a job the tool is going to do with it until we try.

One thing i'm still contemplating is whether to make a pure native windows app, or whether to go cross-platform and write it in something like python with a thin user interface wrapper..

dMbTiger · « **Reply #8 on:** September 22, 2011, 09:29 AM »

Considering the potential usefulness, a cross-platform app would probably be very appropriate. BTW are you planning to make the target site a fixed element or a variable the user can insert (which would be potentially very useful, since the information needed for retrieval may be on different sites.

mouser · « **Reply #9 on:** September 22, 2011, 09:32 AM »

Completely configurable in both the engines/sites supported and output formats.

dMbTiger · « **Reply #10 on:** September 22, 2011, 10:42 AM »

That's what I hoped for. You da man!

mouser · « **Reply #11 on:** November 25, 2011, 06:23 PM »

Update: The first set of PYTHON alpha backend scripts for LLRobot is complete and working.

So it looks like this is going to be at least cross-platform in the backend code (I'll probably write a windows-only GUI front end as part of NANY to make it easy to use).

mouser · « **Reply #12 on:** December 03, 2011, 10:43 AM »

Teaser screenshot number 1:
Screenshot - 12_3_2011 , 10_42_19 AM.png

KynloStephen66515 · « **Reply #13 on:** December 03, 2011, 02:21 PM »

Wow...looking VERY usefull indeed!

Cant wait for a downoad link

app103 · « **Reply #14 on:** December 03, 2011, 03:02 PM »

Oh, that sure is a teaser. I wonder if anyone can guess what this actually does, yet.

rgdot · « **Reply #15 on:** December 03, 2011, 03:05 PM »

Collect web excerpts and group them for customized local output?

Best I can do

steeladept · « **Reply #16 on:** December 04, 2011, 05:45 PM »

Never mind. Didn't look at the teaser close enough....some sort of research tool though.

dMbTiger · « **Reply #17 on:** December 05, 2011, 11:27 AM »

I'll have a better idea how it will work for me once I get my hands on a copy: when do you think you'll have a working copy available?

mouser · « **Reply #18 on:** December 05, 2011, 11:33 AM »

Very soon.. this week for sure.

dMbTiger · « **Reply #19 on:** December 05, 2011, 11:34 AM »

Fantastic!

joiwind · « **Reply #20 on:** December 05, 2011, 12:20 PM »

mouser - this is looking fantastic and I think I know what it does...

Spoiler

I think I know what it does...

mouser · « **Reply #21 on:** December 06, 2011, 02:47 AM »

The alpha version is now working.. Needs a ton of tweaking and error reporting but it does work.

I *agonized* over the user interface for this tool, and in particular how to solve a nasty dilemma involving batching operations.. I hope the program is usable without driving people insane.

I'll be making a screencast video to show how to use it.

mouser · « **Reply #22 on:** December 07, 2011, 05:31 AM »

Alpha version is in testing by my top alpha beta tester as we speak.

Another teaser screenshot:
Screenshot - 12_7_2011 , 5_30_38 AM.png

kyrathaba · « **Reply #23 on:** December 07, 2011, 08:11 AM »

The "LL" in "LLRobot" must be the key...... now what could those two Ls stand for?

Shades · « **Reply #24 on:** December 07, 2011, 02:57 PM »

LL = Lusty Lion?

Ooops....that brainfart only produced something similar to the Ubuntu naming meme.