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Author:  Perfect Idol [ September 22nd, 2005, 11:18 pm ]
Post subject:  Highscore Lookup
How does the highscore lookup in your calculators work?

I'm creating one for a browser-based world switcher currently in the works (http://world-switcher.atspace.com), but it uses a screen scraper in PHP. This seems innefficent and terribly prone to breaking.

Is there a better way?

My code is listed below...


Code:
   function screenScrapeRunescape($user_name) {
      $query="http://hiscore-web.runescape.com/aff/runescape/hiscorepersonal.cgi?username=".$user_name;
      $result=file($query);
      $one_liner="";
      if(sizeof($result)!=0) {
         foreach($result as $val) {
            $one_liner.=$val;
         }
      }
      $one_liner=preg_replace("/(<style.*\/style>)|(<script.*\/script>)/i","",$one_liner);
      $stripped_result=htmlentities(strip_tags($one_liner));
      $stripped_result=preg_replace("/login(.|\s)*$/i","",$stripped_result);
      $stripped_result=preg_replace("/^(.|\s)*xp(\s)*/i","",$stripped_result);
      $stripped_result=preg_replace("/(\n){1,10}/i","\n",$stripped_result);
      $stripped_result=preg_replace("/\&.*;/i","",$stripped_result);
      $stripped_result=preg_replace("/^\s+/","",$stripped_result);
      $stripped_result=preg_replace("/\s+$/","",$stripped_result);
      $stripped_result=preg_replace("/\n/","<br />\n",$stripped_result);
      $stripped_result=preg_replace("/<br \/>\n<br \/>/","",$stripped_result);
      $stripped_result=preg_replace("/(((Attack)|(Defence)|(Strength)|(Hitpoints)|(Overall)|(Ranged)|(Prayer)|(Magic)|(Cooking)|(Woodcutting)|(Fletching)|(Fishing)|(Firemaking)|(Crafting)|(Smithing)|(Mining)|(Herblore)|(Agility)|(Thieving)|(Slayer)|(Farming)|(Runecrafting))<br \/>\n((\d+(\,)?)*)<br \/>\n((\d+(\,)?)*)<br \/>\n((\d+\,?)*))/i","\n<div style=\"border:solid black 1px;background-color:#f0f0f0;margin:2px;padding:5px;\">\n<strong>$2</strong><br />\n<em>Rank</em>: $25<br />\n<em>Level</em>: $28<br />\n<em>Experience</em>: $31\n</div>\n",$stripped_result);
      return $stripped_result;
   }
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Author:  Shane [ September 23rd, 2005, 7:47 am ]
Post subject: 
We can't tell you how the grabber that we have works.

Shane
Author:  Perfect Idol [ September 23rd, 2005, 6:13 pm ]
Post subject: 
Shane wrote:
We can't tell you how the grabber that we have works.

Shane


Lol I'm assuming it uses a screen scraper then.

If not though, congratulations, you are either:

a) far smarter than me 8)
or
b) know someone from Jagex personally...
Author:  Jeff [ September 23rd, 2005, 8:50 pm ]
Post subject: 
Screen scraper, that'll be like a robot. RSBANDB is poor :wink: 8)
No. Defienatly not choice b. Choice a is far more possible :P
Author:  Perfect Idol [ September 23rd, 2005, 10:05 pm ]
Post subject: 
Jeff wrote:
Screen scraper, that'll be like a robot. RSBANDB is poor :wink: 8)
No. Defienatly not choice b. Choice a is far more possible :P


Believe me, no one would like to see that proved more than I, as long as a better method is shown.

Actually screen scrapers are *extremely* easy to make, as my above code demonstrates, yet very unreliable.

Edit: Actually, I should probably rephrase that anyhow. Option a) would make you a better coder than me... NO ONE is smarter ;) :P
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