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Re: Access a LEGO set DB with your phone!
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lugnet.admin.nntp
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Mon, 11 Mar 2002 20:05:11 GMT
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In lugnet.general, Dan Boger writes:
> In lugnet.general, Christopher L. Weeks writes:
> > In lugnet.general, Dan Boger writes:
> heh, need to figure out how the information could be presented in a useful way.
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> > Can you supply Guide data nicely formatted, or better, can the LUGNET guide
> > respond to queries of a different form so that the desired data only is
> > returned in speakable format?
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> it's already available:
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> http://guide.lugnet.com/set/list/bynumber.txt
Hehe, ya, I found that AFTER I had written a Mercator Map to parse the HTML
that is returned when you do queries of the form:
http://guide.lugnet.com/set/nnnn
So Chris, are you loading data in the background to generate static content
(which is what I think) or are you parsing info from the guide in real time?
The latter might be an interesting Web Service to offer (at say, Grand
Central or wherever) as a building block for further app development.
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 | | Re: Access a LEGO set DB with your phone!
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| (...) reminded how non-obvious its existance is. (URL) are rarely asked for the db in text format, but.. where would you expect to see it as a link? LMK. I know it belongs in the FAQ at the very least... I just activated the sidebar of admin.db and (...) (23 years ago, 12-Mar-02, to lugnet.admin.nntp)
| | | Re: Access a LEGO set DB with your phone!
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| (...) I were a programmer! I've spent the last eight hours trying to learn enough perl to massage the data into a multidimensional array, but I think I'm giving up, for the day at least. I can't find a reference, tutorial, or FAQ that describes more (...) (23 years ago, 17-Mar-02, to lugnet.off-topic.geek)
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