OpenXcom Forum
Modding => Tools => Topic started by: DoxaLogos (JG) on July 23, 2015, 07:05:53 am
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So, I'm back to working on the mod installer/updater tool - called OXC-Moderator. I had about a 3 month break due to life circumstances between family moving in for a while and crazy end of school activities. Anyway, there's a lot of work to do. The biggest and most discouraging problem I face is the ever changing web pages for scraping until the REST API gets implemented. So... parsing for mods is a moving target.
Here's the github project:
https://github.com/jgatkinsn/OXC-Moderator
It doesn't do much right now other than parse some web pages - poorly now that it's changed again. I have a TODO list on the project page for perusal. I would like to use Kivy (https://kivy.org/) as a GUI framework, so I can learn it and maybe support the Android port one day.
I can only work on this about two nights a week right now, so I don't expect anything fully functional for a while. This is here to help keep me accountable and keep moving forward. Until I get a stable REST interface, I'll try to start working on the GUI design.
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Have you asked Jo5hua for a clean API for accessing the mod data instead of web scraping?
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Have you asked Jo5hua for a clean API for accessing the mod data instead of web scraping?
Yes. It's been on his todo list for a while :) It's "partially" there, but there are some text encoding problems with the JSON it returns that standard decoders can't handle.
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This is discontinued if no one figured out. Not enough support from the mod site to help out with issues interfacing with it. I gave up.