Debate and Discourse: AWESOME POST in "Sorry, You're Not A [Chat]er", by Proto

Nocturne

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Proto wrote: »

I wrote a perl script that nabs all the recent posts from a forumer, rips out the text, and then compiles it into a text file.

Then you can use wordle to create one of those.

yessssss.

Geeky-meta-ego-search awesomeness.

Edit: Also some more.
Edit 2: And more

Forum: Debate and Discourse
Post: Sorry, You're Not A [Chat]er
Posted by: Proto


Original Content:

elendil


irene


tube

JAEF

I do enjoy that Tube's looks like it's communicating "Just people fucking, like really."

Caulk Bite 6

I guess I had to be there.

Quid

Quid has also reported this post.

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Because this is brilliant

Quid

Proto wrote: »

senj


inc

Proto wrote: »

posh


than


quid

Quid

Edit: Well, shit, I thought it'd let me delete this.

INeedNoSalt

where does one get that script

Feral

There are some choice word associations there.

Quid wrote:

fuck highly mean awesome scary person

He totally does!

Thanatos wrote:

Seattle shit time

I thought you hated Portland.

poshniallo wrote:

JUST THINK PEOPLE

If only we could make them think so easily.

Senjutsu wrote:

like ok seriously

like totally omg!

INeedNoSalt

See, for Quid, what stood out was "People just like something."

Dr.Funkenstein

That is so 4 months ago

agoaj

No link to the script yet?

Olivaw

People in D&D apparently use the word "like" way too much

Cyvros

I'm honestly surprised that "fuckers" isn't more prominent. Also, I never realised how much Than used "elemental".

Feral

Olivaw wrote: »

People in D&D apparently use the word "like" way too much

Just like people.

Thanatos

Cyvros wrote: »

I'm honestly surprised that "fuckers" isn't more prominent. Also, I never realised how much Than used "elemental".

It's grabbing from my last 200 posts, several of which are about a D&D character with the Elemental Savant class.

Cyvros

Malingering Layabout Scumbag wrote: »

Cyvros wrote: »

I'm honestly surprised that "fuckers" isn't more prominent. Also, I never realised how much Than used "elemental".

It's grabbing from my last 200 posts, several of which are about a D&D character with the Elemental Savant class.

Ah. That makes more sense than what I had in mind.

Tossrock

INeedNoSalt wrote: »

where does one get that script

I wrote a pretty similar script, and if it's implemented the way I expect it is, it wouldn't work for you.

For those who care, it's almost certainly logging in as Proto either by HTML POSTing in his username and password, or by using his cookies as part of an LWP browser agent. I say almost certainly because this forum doesn't allow non-logged in people to search, and scraping the entire forum and then recompiling post histories would be way, way more effort than any sane person would put into this.

So the short answer is it probably will not become publicly available, and if it does, you will probably have to edit it.

Fallout

Tossrock wrote: »

INeedNoSalt wrote: »

where does one get that script

I wrote a pretty similar script, and if it's implemented the way I expect it is, it wouldn't work for you.

For those who care, it's almost certainly logging in as Proto either by HTML POSTing in his username and password, or by using his cookies as part of an LWP browser agent. I say almost certainly because this forum doesn't allow non-logged in people to search, and scraping the entire forum and then recompiling post histories would be way, way more effort than any sane person would put into this.

So the short answer is it probably will not become publicly available, and if it does, you will probably have to edit it.

sooo... next week? two weeks?

Mojo_Jojo

This is amazing. If we can't get the script, can somebody at least do mine? Pleeeeeeassssse?

Tossrock

I'd be interested in seeing the regexing / whatever used to extract just post content. I had a pretty inelegant solution, doing multiple passes after pulling stuff out from between matched tags

Something that actually built hash based objects out of the div styling would be pretty neat

The Black Hunter

do me do me please?

Proto

Tossrock wrote: »

INeedNoSalt wrote: »

where does one get that script

I wrote a pretty similar script, and if it's implemented the way I expect it is, it wouldn't work for you.

For those who care, it's almost certainly logging in as Proto either by HTML POSTing in his username and password, or by using his cookies as part of an LWP browser agent. I say almost certainly because this forum doesn't allow non-logged in people to search, and scraping the entire forum and then recompiling post histories would be way, way more effort than any sane person would put into this.

So the short answer is it probably will not become publicly available, and if it does, you will probably have to edit it.

The way it works is that I run a search on the phorums for a person, have the page display as many results as possible, then save the html page to my HD. The script parses that file, nabs the post IDs of all the posts, then loops through all those IDs, grabbing the content from the distinct "post page" for each:
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=7566164[/CODE] Then it's a regex to wittle down the content to just the post, and HTML:: Parse to rip out the tags. That part works ok, but isn't the most elegant solution (mangles a few things, misses others) and I need to clean up the results a bit. With some work you could probably get the script to run the search part automatically. I don't think I'm gonna do that though. Once I get the script cleaned up a bunch I'll post it. Should work fine for anyone at that point.[CODE]http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=7566164[/CODE]

Then it's a regex to wittle down the content to just the post, and HTML:: Parse to rip out the tags.
That part works ok, but isn't the most elegant solution (mangles a few things, misses others) and I need to clean up the results a bit.

With some work you could probably get the script to run the search part automatically. I don't think I'm gonna do that though.

Once I get the script cleaned up a bunch I'll post it. Should work fine for anyone at that point.

PotU

Didn't we do this like a month ago in SE?

KrunkMcGrunk

I didn't know people used the word "just" so much.

My would probably contain the word "man" in huge letters. And "like".

Senjutsu

PotU wrote: »

Didn't we do this like a month ago in SE?

You tell us, we certainly weren't paying attention.

FAQ

buuurrrrrrrnnnnnnn

Bama

Senjutsu wrote: »

PotU wrote: »

Didn't we do this like a month ago in SE?

You tell us, we certainly weren't paying attention.

:^:

Fallout

D&Ders snub their noses at those less prone to intellectual circlejerks, story at 11

Senjutsu

sensitive much?

Nocturne

Yay for forum wars! They make awesome post threads even awesomer.

Also awesome: stereotyping groups of people and associating yourself with some sort of "team" that consists of a subforum on a website about comics about video games.

ElJeffe

I'm on Team Username Doesn't Rhyme With Cock-Burn and I can tell you it's totally awesome not being associated with those other wankers. I hear tell they're unclean.

Proto

you people are ruining my awesome thread!

ruiners.

Tossrock

Proto wrote: »

Tossrock wrote: »

INeedNoSalt wrote: »

where does one get that script

I wrote a pretty similar script, and if it's implemented the way I expect it is, it wouldn't work for you.

For those who care, it's almost certainly logging in as Proto either by HTML POSTing in his username and password, or by using his cookies as part of an LWP browser agent. I say almost certainly because this forum doesn't allow non-logged in people to search, and scraping the entire forum and then recompiling post histories would be way, way more effort than any sane person would put into this.

So the short answer is it probably will not become publicly available, and if it does, you will probably have to edit it.

The way it works is that I run a search on the phorums for a person, have the page display as many results as possible, then save the html page to my HD. The script parses that file, nabs the post IDs of all the posts, then loops through all those IDs, grabbing the content from the distinct "post page" for each:
http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=7566164[/CODE] Then it's a regex to wittle down the content to just the post, and HTML:: Parse to rip out the tags. That part works ok, but isn't the most elegant solution (mangles a few things, misses others) and I need to clean up the results a bit. With some work you could probably get the script to run the search part automatically. I don't think I'm gonna do that though. Once I get the script cleaned up a bunch I'll post it. Should work fine for anyone at that point.[/QUOTE] Ah. When you said that you had a script that did it, I assumed you meant it did the whole thing automatically. Doing the searches manually is a lot easier and more portable, I guess.[CODE]http://forums.penny-arcade.com/showpost.php?p=7566164[/CODE]

Then it's a regex to wittle down the content to just the post, and HTML:: Parse to rip out the tags.
That part works ok, but isn't the most elegant solution (mangles a few things, misses others) and I need to clean up the results a bit.

With some work you could probably get the script to run the search part automatically. I don't think I'm gonna do that though.

Once I get the script cleaned up a bunch I'll post it. Should work fine for anyone at that point.

Ah. When you said that you had a script that did it, I assumed you meant it did the whole thing automatically. Doing the searches manually is a lot easier and more portable, I guess.

sdrawkcaB emaN

the best part of this is that it's case sensitive, so the fact that tube's wordle includes DEFENDER all in caps is amazing

Aldo

Totally want to have this done to my egosearch. I need to know words I abuse.

Flippy_D

I too am waiting on the release of your code gubbins.

I'd like to see how big 'sniper' is.

PotU

Senjutsu wrote: »

PotU wrote: »

Didn't we do this like a month ago in SE?

You tell us, we certainly weren't paying attention.

Hey, I was just saying, but if you want to get offensive and tell everyone how much better you are, why not!

Fallout

potu stop starting a forum war

just because they made disparaging generalizations about a forum first and have it coming is no reason to get all... unkind!!!

PotU

I'm a forum terrorist.

Fallout

ban potu forum terrorist muslin never forget

Amaranth

I am enjoying the fact that Tube apparently says "aboutl" a lot.