ScumBait

[weilawei]

To pass a parameter with spaces or other odd things in it, you need to put it in quotes.

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c:\python25\python.exe c:\code\scumbait\scumbait.py -g 7703 -m "Mr. Flay" -tflp all > c:\testaab.txt

You should get a good dump this way. Post numbers and proper names for you tomorrow. (Already in my code, but I'm headed to bed now.)

[Kison]

I've never touched python in my life(until today) but I think I got the post numbers part working :

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def id_of_post(post):
    try:
        body = post.findParent('tr').parent.find('span', 'postdetails')
        return body.contents[2].split(': ')[1].strip()
    except AttributeError:
        return '??'

Seems to work for me.

[weilawei]

Thanks for the code! I'll add it into my source and I might as well do a quick upload since I've fixed some things and made changes.

EDIT: I've uploaded the new version (0.2.1 -- 0.3 will have things working a tad better)

Thanks to Surye for hosting and Kison for getting post IDs working. The next release will be hosted from scumbait.datamachine.net.

[kuribo]

What we need is a Greasemonkey addon!

[Max]

I presume this is dead in the water?

[pacman281292]

hmm... 4 1/2 months...
*cough*

[Kison]

I was actually planning on bumping this. Weilawei hasn't been on the site since June and it looks like the original file has expired from flyupload. Luckily(for anyone who cares), I still have it. You can grab it from here.

Not really sure how complete this is anymore as I've not messed with it in a while. I'm not exactly a Python pro, either, but I can try adding to this if people so desire.

Love,

Random Guy.

[Tomato]

weilawei still shows up in IRC fairly often. I'll ask him next time I see him.

[weilawei]

I guess I'll start working on this again. I've just been really busy with life, new job, etc. The new version will probably be something close to a rewrite. Don't look for it this weekend though, because I won't be home or have time. I'll try to get something done on Monday.

[weilawei]

So, here's a bit of my planning doc, excluding a bit of the more technical details. Feel free to suggest changes or features that would be extensively useful to you. Remember--a lot of advanced things can be built from a combination of querying and formatting output, so anything suggested should go a -long- way.

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ScumBait 1.0 (rewrite)
----------------------

    - read game via backend (forum, irc)
        - backend establishes game as a series of important "bites,"
          which are potentially valuable excerpts for intelligence gathering

    - collect actions
        - mark as "direct"
            a. vote
            b. unvote
            c. nolynch
            c. nightkill
            d. lynch
            e. daykill

        - mark as "claimed"
            a. protected
            b. investigated

        - actions are tagged with
            a. timestamp
            b. direct/claimed
            c. author
            d. target
            e. game id (by database)
            f. move id (by database)

    - save actions to database
        - add in all ID #s and counts (e.g., game, move, post #)

    - accept queries
        - action type (direct, speculative, both)
        - date/time range
            - both real-world time
            - and game time

    - output via frontend templates (html, text, etc.)

[idea]

Side note, why no Asian chess champs? I thought they were smart or sumtin.

the current world champion is Indian (Viswanathan Anand)

far eastern countries have their own chess variants (shogi, Chinese chess etc)

in China, Japan and Korea the game of choice is go (aka wei qi, igo, baduk), which some claim to be the oldest and most widely played board game in the world

[Kison]

I have no idea if this is still being worked on as I had vanished right around the time Weilawei posted again, but one of the things that'd have to be looked into is accounting for other moderators taking over a game. Otherwise, things can get a little whacked. Examples: I recall Adel taking over Mafia 78 and Mr. Flay taking over Mafia VS. Wolves Redux despite being players who had perished.

This likely ties into accounting for player deaths. If you can have the script conclude that player X is dead, then seeing player X post again should likely be ignored as far as activity & votes are concerned(with the exception being resurrections, which was the case for MrBuddyLee in Pirates VS Ninjas, and I think a ton of players in Adel's Nightmare game?).

Reason for needing to identify the moderator: I was playing around with this the other day and had plugged in game 8222 and noticed that Mr. Stoofer, the moderator, had a ton of votes spit out in the results. The reason was that every vote count he made was titled

Vote Count

, so the script was seeing this as an actual vote.

For moderators, might be necessary to require the user to input all the mods who have at some point taken over a game. This method would be an issue with the two examples I gave above. The only solution would be to identify the moderators and at which point they became moderators, which would be a bit tedious for those who don't remember.

So,

1) Determine the moderators and at which point they are moderating.
2) Determine when a player dies/resurrects.
3) Link replaced players with their predecessors.

If those three issues could be taken care of, I think this would be a much handier tool.

In another thread there was someone who was worried about not being able to set this up on their system. I made a dinky little page where this can be run: http://scumbait.mine.nu/. Ignore the ads.

[dahill1]

In another thread there was someone who was worried about not being able to set this up on their system. I made a dinky little page where this can be run: http://scumbait.mine.nu/. Ignore the ads.

that is extremely awesome
i see a few tiny errors such as it listing the mod as voting for people, but i think this depends on how the mod setups up the first post/does vote counts. otherwise, :bravo:

[Vi]

I'm disappointed in the apparent need for players to be able to spell correctly and precisely...

[xyzzy]

Vo

Bi

Vee

Vuy

Vee

Vahee

vhi

IT'S SO HARD

[Vi]

ogml

ohgodmylife

OhGdMyLife

omgl

Wizardcat

wizcat

wc

Wizrdcat

hasdgfas

hazjasdfa

cow

hascow

etc.

ect.

etc

ectomancer

[xyzzy]

Eh, so the mod has to spend 20 seconds reading the votecount. I don't really see the problem.

[Kison]

Weilawei's code is still a bit confusing to me, but I managed to do a few things:

- Fixed(more like sloppily patched) a bug that made players with weird letters like Kaleidoscope break the script. It'll act as if the unidentifiable letters don't exist.
- The 'total activity' for each player summary wasn't displaying proper posts-per-player / total posts. So far they're matching up after I made some changes, though.
- Added a new line that displays how many words a player has posted as well as their average word count per post. Example:

Player Summary for Kison
------------------------
3.4% of total activity (39/1154)
Total words posted: 4646. Average per post: 119.13
--------------------------------------------------

Player Summary for Jitsu
------------------------
8.1% of total activity (93/1154)
Total words posted: 20697. Average per post: 222.55
---------------------------------------------------

Someone earlier in the thread had a graph using word counts. Not sure if I can do that, but I can try sometime later.

[Mr. Flay]

Surely there's a way to 'escape' the non-ASCII characters? I don't know the language this is written in, but usually additional quotes do the trick.

Having to go hunt down and retype K's name would detract significantly from the usefulness of this...

[Elmo]

I keep not bothering to work on this because I rolled my own, but not bothering to finish my own. Joy. If you actually want something done on this, ask me nicely, and I'll procrastinate about it for six months.

I strongly disapprove of the apparent lack of caching on Kison's site. That could be bad if this becomes widely used. (I could be totally wrong about this, but I don't recall any facility for caching when I looked at the code 10541769 years ago.)

[Kison]

Surely there's a way to 'escape' the non-ASCII characters? I don't know the language this is written in, but usually additional quotes do the trick.

I've done some more research and found a way to perform different types of conversion(backslash escaping, XML, replace, and ignore). The last two are more along the lines of what I was doing to prevent the script from crashing. When I use the XML conversion method, and run the script on the page, KaleiÃ