is there any posibility of an IRC bot for eq traders?

[Aloura]

Lucy has an IRC bot, that will give you spell information in a channel.

Is there any chance of getting a similar bot for eqtraders?

!recipe itemname
!whatsitfor itemname

would be two *very* usefull bots to run in IRC, and would save oodles and gobs of bandwith for you site as well.

any thoughts?

I should also point out, that the Lucy bot is ran on irc.stratics.net

but innovative individuals have created scripts to gather info from the lucy bot, and paste them into everquest chat channels upon request. There would be no violation of the EULA for eqtraders, same way there is none for Lucy.

[Aloura]

come to think of it, if you can get me a search page like the one we already have, which generates a *very basic* page, I can write bot, heck i'll even host it.

The most important part though, is that I would need the search page to fucntion off URL variables. (aka $_GET['variablename'])

This way I can make the search with a URL query. If you do that, I can set up an irc bot to search the database upon request. I think it will save you *alot* of bandwith, because instead of someone coming to the site to search a recipie, only 1 page is loaded, and it will be loaded with bare minial information.

[Sanna]

not that i answer for anyone... in fact, there's half a question buried in here too....

When Zaephod started the Tyking bot, the original idea was to build some kind of system that provided in game links to items and also interface with the EQTC-DB to reply to recipe queries.

Things seemed to take a leap forward when Lucy released an EQID list for every item in the game to that point... but then Omens was released and I believe the EQTC-Tyking interface part was backburnered. (Quite understandably.)

As I read this, it seems like the same sort of question... is this still something that wants to be pursued, the ability to access EQTC-DB from in-game. It sounds interesting, and in theory it /could/ reduce BW....

joomc, does EQTC still push their BW allotments? I haven't seen a note to such effect recently, but then I haven't been paying the same kind of attention.

-- Sanna

[Aloura]

I'm 2/3 done writing the beta version of the bot now, in hopes that they will throw togeather a quick page for me to use it with

[Aloura]

I have the code finished to grab the file from the page, and have tranfered a test file into eqim. Not to much more I can do until the page is completed.

I'll go ahead and explain what I'd need the page to do, in case you decide to do it.

$_GET['item']

and then search database for all items containing that text (5 max is fine)

Return those results with little html formating, just CSV (comma separated values) and carrage returns.

If there is only one result, return the following information

Item name, QTY yielded if its a crafted item
component1, source
component2, source
component3, source
etc etc etc.
The items trivial.

so if searched for magnetic breastplate it would return

magnetic breastplate, Yield 1
Gashed magnitized breastplate, drop in Murmite proving grounds
(3)copper sheets, sold in pok (whatever the vendor name and loc is)
Smithy hammer, sold in pok (whatever vendor name and loc is)
magnitized brick, crafted
magnitized bolt, crafted
Trivial (whatever the trivial is )


Whatever format you want to display this in, will work fine I can grab it np.

The only catch is that the bot will only be able to respond to one person every 10 seconds, but will build up a que of up to 10 users. How often a user is allowed to querry, will have to be figured out once I seet he load that the bot has to put up with.



Again, if you don't want to do this its not a problem. All I've waisted is a few hours

In the end, the bot will even link the items required for the combine, not just write them out. Thats why I don't need the items stats

[Ngreth Thergn]

(BTW... Private message sent for those outside the conversation)

[Jarrington]

I have a pretty powerful linkbot running called "TheDB" (click here for details)

If linking to eqtraders is still something people are interested in, I'd be happy to try and implement this. The only issue I can see posing a problem at the moment is the fact that apostrophe characters don't work in the eqtraders search page.

Jarrington Avendaar

[Britneyy]

When i was playing around with Tykings rls of this portingto mysql, msssql, ms access, I tried to play with linking of recepies but in a serousness parsing http get data just didn't seem as if it would work well, Some things have way more then one possibilty of combonation along with being able to execute searches for the exact item since somthing silks "silk swatch" is containted in allot of other things. The easiest way to come up with something is developing your own db with names of corresponding componenets and such from what i found.

[Jarrington]

When i was playing around with Tykings rls of this portingto mysql, msssql, ms access, I tried to play with linking of recepies but in a serousness parsing http get data just didn't seem as if it would work well, Some things have way more then one possibilty of combonation along with being able to execute searches for the exact item since somthing silks "silk swatch" is containted in allot of other things. The easiest way to come up with something is developing your own db with names of corresponding componenets and such from what i found.

Well, after talking to Ngreth who green-lighted the code, it's done an implemented.

Here's the URL explaining the BOT's features:

The Company - LinkBOT

[Lenwu]

OKOKOK

2 HUGE thumbs up for this bot.....been messing around with it for the past hour....and all i gotta say is....WOW


Very Nicely done

/bow