As the title says, I have created a Team 10 News Generator! 
It isn't quite finished yet as I need to iron out a couple of kinks and add some team info. However, below is a sample output of the script so far [this is what gets spat out to the console, the final script will also create spreadsheets and a text document you can copy-paste into the forum]
Currently the script works as follows:
1: Stanford daily_user_summary.txt file is downloaded
2: File is parsed for the first 250 Team 10 usernames
This will currently grab anyone who has more than 80K points. It can be adjusted in future, but parsing takes quite considerable time, so the fewer Team 10 users we grab, the quicker the file will be parsed.
3: With the collection of usernames, the script generates urls to the EOC stat XML feeds and downloads each one.
An example: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/xml/user_summary.php?un=Biffa&t=10
4: The script reads each XML file downloaded and creates a new object for each user.
For the non-programmers, an object is basically a collection of data that represents something, in this case a F@H User.
5: The first 250 users contains a lot of slackers/inactives, so the script prunes those out.
6: The script then loads a previously created XML file containing the calculated data from the previous running of the script. Comparisons are then made between each user.
7: The latest stats are written to a new XML file, for using a week later. The info is also printed to the console.
I quite like how it has turned out but there is a rather large issue. Because it is relying on EOC stats, the news wouldn't be entirely accurate if it was still done on a Thursday. This is because a week for EOC is Sunday 00:00 to Saturday 23:59. If we use the script in the current form, the News would have to be on Saturdays to be the most accurate.
I have dabbled with generating my own stats from scratch and not relying on the EOC stats, but that will take some more tinkering!
There will still have to be some manual formatting and tinkering, so dekez isn't completely out of a job, but the script serves to remove a lot of the copy/paste malarky and spending hours working out rank changes etc.
Here is the output I promised earier [whitespace collapsing by the forums makes it look awful, but you get the idea!]:
So let me know what you think! I will try and have a finished product in a few days!
It isn't quite finished yet as I need to iron out a couple of kinks and add some team info. However, below is a sample output of the script so far [this is what gets spat out to the console, the final script will also create spreadsheets and a text document you can copy-paste into the forum]
Currently the script works as follows:
1: Stanford daily_user_summary.txt file is downloaded
2: File is parsed for the first 250 Team 10 usernames
This will currently grab anyone who has more than 80K points. It can be adjusted in future, but parsing takes quite considerable time, so the fewer Team 10 users we grab, the quicker the file will be parsed.
3: With the collection of usernames, the script generates urls to the EOC stat XML feeds and downloads each one.
An example: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/xml/user_summary.php?un=Biffa&t=10
4: The script reads each XML file downloaded and creates a new object for each user.
For the non-programmers, an object is basically a collection of data that represents something, in this case a F@H User.
5: The first 250 users contains a lot of slackers/inactives, so the script prunes those out.
6: The script then loads a previously created XML file containing the calculated data from the previous running of the script. Comparisons are then made between each user.
7: The latest stats are written to a new XML file, for using a week later. The info is also printed to the console.
I quite like how it has turned out but there is a rather large issue. Because it is relying on EOC stats, the news wouldn't be entirely accurate if it was still done on a Thursday. This is because a week for EOC is Sunday 00:00 to Saturday 23:59. If we use the script in the current form, the News would have to be on Saturdays to be the most accurate.
I have dabbled with generating my own stats from scratch and not relying on the EOC stats, but that will take some more tinkering!
There will still have to be some manual formatting and tinkering, so dekez isn't completely out of a job, but the script serves to remove a lot of the copy/paste malarky and spending hours working out rank changes etc.
Here is the output I promised earier [whitespace collapsing by the forums makes it look awful, but you get the idea!]:
Team 10 News Generator said:
So let me know what you think! I will try and have a finished product in a few days!
