test please delete

[NickFitz]

There's a smileys scoreboard?

No, it just occurred to me that I could spider TPD over the weekend and count up the occurences of each smiley, and then present the results.

Have to respect robots.txt, of course...

/scampers off to check CUG's robots.txt

[NickFitz]

User-agent: *
Disallow: /printthread
Disallow: /sendmessage
Disallow: /register
Disallow: /login
Disallow: /newreply
Disallow: /subscription
Disallow: /private
Disallow: /misc
Disallow: /showpost
Disallow: /report
Disallow: /newthread
Disallow: /transfer
Disallow: /calendar.php?do=add
Disallow: /poll

Glad to see we don't get something added to the calendar every time Google pops by... which seems to be about every 20 minutes at the moment

[DiscoStu]

My elbow joints hurt.

[NickFitz]

Looks OK to spider the thread, anyway... have to take some time over it, not just hammer the server every 20 milliseconds or something...

[DiscoStu]

My fore-arms hurt.

[DiscoStu]

My wrists hurt.

[DiscoStu]

My shoulders hurt.

[DiscoStu]

But I can't stop playing. It's really quite addictive.

[NickFitz]

wget presumably provides all the necessary options, but one has to read the man page to find out what they are

BTW Stu, I'm not ignoring your extensive list of computer-game-related injuries; I was going to wait until the end so I could address the situation as comprehensively as possible once I am in full possession of the facts

[NickFitz]

I think an interesting way to do it would be to have one of my other machines act as a proxy by way of a servlet that takes the HTML in the response and runs it through the TagSoup parser, which generates a valid sequence of SAX events representing the structure the code would have if it was XHTML (and therefore XML), which can be fed to an XSLT processor which can transform the XHTML, combined with the document generated on the previous run, into the actual scoreboard page, such that the client never actually sees the posts, but just the running total of smilies.

You could use the query string to determine which results you got: for example, see all threads containing smiley x.