just found cauldron!

[The Daring Apprentice]

Hi All,

I am also a dev of a MTG app, and well, I am especially interested in
where/how to get the oracle database in the yaml format... At the
moment I am extracting my information from a txt file that I obtained
by running:
http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&output=spoiler&method=text&set=+![%22Unglued%22]+![%22Unhinged%22]

(and then cleaning it a bit)...

But is the yaml format somehow easy to generate, or how/where did you
get it?


For more info about my current app:
http://daringapprentice.wikispaces.com --- The problem is I can't get
the networking going so nicely, and I want to teach myself python...
SO:
http://github.com/TheDaringApprentice/daringapprentice/tree/master is
my rewrite attempt in python. Not at all ready for use, in early/
design phases. So that means that if I find the yaml format easy to
come by, I can recode my parser to use that instead.

Regards,
-Renen

[Adam Blinkinsop]

On Wed, Sep 2, 2009 at 8:41 AM, The Daring Apprentice<rla...@gmail.com> wrote:
> I am also a dev of a MTG app, and well, I am especially interested in
> where/how to get the oracle database in the yaml format...  At the
> moment I am extracting my information from a txt file that I obtained
> by running:
> http://gatherer.wizards.com/Pages/Search/Default.aspx?action=advanced&output=spoiler&method=text&set=+![%22Unglued%22]+![%22Unhinged%22]
>
> (and then cleaning it a bit)...
>
> But is the yaml format somehow easy to generate, or how/where did you
> get it?

It's not too difficult to generate. The easiest way is probably just
to pull my work:

Gathered YAML: http://github.com/blinks/Cauldron/tree/master/data
Gathering Script: http://github.com/blinks/Cauldron/blob/master/scripts/gather

> For more info about my current app:
> http://daringapprentice.wikispaces.com  --- The problem is I can't get
> the networking going so nicely, and I want to teach myself python...

Good! We need more Pythonistas out there.

> SO:
> http://github.com/TheDaringApprentice/daringapprentice/tree/master is
> my rewrite attempt in python.  Not at all ready for use, in early/
> design phases.  So that means that if I find the yaml format easy to
> come by, I can recode my parser to use that instead.

Yeah, gathering to YAML makes things much easier to change later on.
Feel free to grab; it's all under the MIT license. Ping me if you
need help, and feel free to point people my direction if you like. :)

> Regards,
> -Renen
> >
>



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Adam Blinkinsop <bli...@acm.org>