Yet another kickStarter board

[Thierry]

Hi,

I've just released a stack which scans the kickstarter web page
and presents the relevant information in a simple way.
There is a histogram which reacts to mouse events.

The stack is free and you can do whatever you like with it.

The script is full of regex; you have been warned

More seriously,
this is an interesting script to look at to see what Livecode
can do with regex and how fast it is.

You can download it at http://...... and
check for Yet Another KickStarter board (end of the page)

Comments are welcome.

Enjoy!

Thierry

[Thierry]

Hi,

As the kickstarter web page changed just few minutes ago,
I made an update of my stack "Yet Another KickStarter board".

You can download it at http://.......
check for Yet Another KickStarter board (end of the page)

The stack is still free and you can still do whatever you like with it.

Regards,

Thierry

Hi,

I've just released a stack which scans the kickstarter web page
and presents the relevant information in a simple way.
There is a histogram which reacts to mouse events.

The stack is free and you can do whatever you like with it.

Enjoy!

Thierry

[FourthWorld]

I've just released a stack which scans the kickstarter web page...

I'm sure this is a good example of regex in LC, but folks, please use sparingly, per the KickStarter TOS:

Additionally, you shall not: (i) take any action that imposes or may impose (as determined by the Company in its sole discretion) an unreasonable or disproportionately large load on the Company’s or its third-party providers’ infrastructure; (ii) interfere or attempt to interfere with the proper working of the Service or any activities conducted on the Service; (iii) bypass any measures the Company may use to prevent or restrict access to the Service (or other accounts, computer systems, or networks connected to the Service); (iv) run Maillist, Listserv, or any form of auto-responder or "spam" on the Service; or (v) use manual or automated software, devices, or other processes to "crawl" or "spider" any page of the Site.

http://www.kickstarter.com/terms-of-use

As a single-page scraper it's unclear if the software violates this anti-crawler clause, but as long as it's used sparingly so it generates no more traffic than occasional human use I don't imagine it would set off any triggers there at Kickstarter.

Thierry, what user-agent string does it use?

[Thierry]

I've just released a stack which scans the kickstarter web page...

but folks, please use sparingly, per the KickStarter TOS:

As a single-page scraper it's unclear if the software violates this anti-crawler clause,
but as long as it's used sparingly so it generates no more traffic than occasional human use
I don't imagine it would set off any triggers there at Kickstarter.

You have to click on a button for the update.

So, it's no more traffic than updating your web page on Firefox;
even less because it just download the first html page and no more...

But you are surely right, use it sparingly;
but I'm sure that 3 or 4 updates per user per day is going to be a max,
as they are not angry birds flying around when you click

Thanks for your comments,

Regards,

Thierry

[FourthWorld]

But you are surely right, use it sparingly;
but I'm sure that 3 or 4 updates per user per day is going to be a max,
as they are not angry birds flying around when you click

No angry birds? We gotta get Scot Rossi in on this.

[Thierry]

Hello all,

Here is the third version.

Add a second graph which gives another perspective...

You can download it at http://....... and
check for Yet Another KickStarter board (end of the page)

The stack is still free and you can still do whatever you like with it.

Enjoy.

Kickstarter stack has been dropped from my site! (useless by now)

Thierry