macman104
Member
I'm not going to lie, this is a 100% request for a script. I'm hoping based on previous involvement here, I'll get a slide on the "show us some work on the script" statement, and I won't have to.
Basically, I will provide a data file (we'll call it, inData.dat). Simply an item name, one item per line. It will be an exact string of the item. I would like to search for the item in the mall, pull the first price (I don't care what it is), and print it out to a data file (outData.dat). I don't plan on running this more than once a day. The file will not be more than 30 items, just some investment items, that I want to monitor.
I'm pretty sure I can work out the reading stuff into a map, but I haven't had the time to work on any scripts that utilize the new function like visit_url and the substring functions and such. I'm a little worried this might be viewed as too risky, and giving out the possibility for mallbotting, which if it can't be done without giving that functionality as well, maybe someone might be willing to contact me via pm.
Thanks.
EDIT: I am aware that Fnord runs something like this that checks every item, but a) I don't know how often it runs, and b) it isn't always up-to-date on what items are available, c) I'd have to then write something to go through his lists, and parse out the items I want, which I don't really want to do.
Basically, I will provide a data file (we'll call it, inData.dat). Simply an item name, one item per line. It will be an exact string of the item. I would like to search for the item in the mall, pull the first price (I don't care what it is), and print it out to a data file (outData.dat). I don't plan on running this more than once a day. The file will not be more than 30 items, just some investment items, that I want to monitor.
I'm pretty sure I can work out the reading stuff into a map, but I haven't had the time to work on any scripts that utilize the new function like visit_url and the substring functions and such. I'm a little worried this might be viewed as too risky, and giving out the possibility for mallbotting, which if it can't be done without giving that functionality as well, maybe someone might be willing to contact me via pm.
Thanks.
EDIT: I am aware that Fnord runs something like this that checks every item, but a) I don't know how often it runs, and b) it isn't always up-to-date on what items are available, c) I'd have to then write something to go through his lists, and parse out the items I want, which I don't really want to do.