emil.sekula Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 Hello I think it could be nice if you put this program in http://www.softpedia.com/. In this way it could be more popular. Regards Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
floele Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 @CybTekSol: So...where's the Softpedia template, eh? Regarding submission of Ketarin: I'll submit it to a couple of sites when we reach 1.0. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalker Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 @CybTekSol: So...where's the Softpedia template, eh? Softpedia is quite tricky to be "templated" easily. I'm working on a template for and almost got the apps hosted on SoftPedia itself to download. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CybTekSol Posted January 19, 2009 Report Share Posted January 19, 2009 @CybTekSol: So...where's the Softpedia template, eh? I developed one yesterday and I'm still testing it... I'll post it when it has been thoroughly vetted. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kerberos Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 Softpedia proved to be quite an interesting project for me. I started out thinking that it would be fairly trivial to do with it what Flo did with FileHippo. I made methods similar to the FileHippo ones that did the same thing but with Softpedia. After a few days of debugging and numerous twists that I wasn't expecting it turns out that Softpedia isn't as robust as I thought it was. Some applications' download sections have multiple links to companion pieces of software that are completely separate from the application itself. Others have multiple links for different version (such as versions in different languages), making it difficult to identify which link should be the default (programmatically, of course). Also, the links aren't always in any particular order, which really doesn't help. Then there's External Mirrors versus Softpedia Dedicated Mirrors. Some of the dedicated mirrors simply redirected back to the download page, while some external mirrors take you to the download page on the application's website. I wasn't sure what to do. While I DO have a (mostly) working Softpedia-enabled version of Ketarin sitting around, I don't like the fact that for some applications you'll end up downloading the Russian version or some other program that goes with the application instead. I was hoping to see Softpedia implemented as an automatic feature, like FileHippo, but it's a little unstable for that. At least I think so. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CybTekSol Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 (edited) I developed one yesterday and I'm still testing it... I'll post it when it has been thoroughly vetted. I'm afraid it will be near impossible to develop a consistent template for Softpedia for the very reasons that Kerberos has so eloquently described. It did not take long for me to realize that there are too many variations in the way they list and serve applications! Even with if...then...else statements it would be quite an undertaking and above my skill level. Yikes! HOWEVER, on a brighter note, the template that I have developed for SnapFiles and still testing is working WELL! Edited January 20, 2009 by CybTekSol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalker Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 CybTekSol did you get the app version scraping working for SoftPedia ? If yes, could you please send it to me because I'm struggling to get it working (at least without the user having to edit the regex to include the app name). Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CybTekSol Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 CybTekSol did you get the app version scraping working for SoftPedia ? If yes, could you please send it to me because I'm struggling to get it working (at least without the user having to edit the regex to include the app name). It's not 100% and it is slow to process, but here it is anyway... I'm scraping the version from within the 'title' tags. The way in which they list app versions varies so much, I'm not sure if a 'one size fits all' template will ever work. <title>.*?(\d.*?[ ]Build[ ]\d.*?|\d.*?[ ]Beta[ ]\d.*?|\d.*?)[ ].*?</title> If you improve it, please share it with me. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stalker Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 I was trying to grab app's name in a named (or numbered) group and then get the version from the download page. Can't get it to work together as one regex though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CybTekSol Posted January 20, 2009 Report Share Posted January 20, 2009 (edited) I have all but given up on a Softpedia template for the time being... I'll mail a six-pack to anyone that cracks it. (with proof of age of course) Edited January 20, 2009 by CybTekSol Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
FranciscoR Posted January 21, 2009 Report Share Posted January 21, 2009 (edited) You really enjoy playing with wildcards on steroids =), maybe i'll give that a try when I have some time... but I think I'm starting with something more simple. Edited January 21, 2009 by FranciscoR Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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