Realtime auction logger (hourly refresh, may increase)

[tristantio]

Hello all,

I have a new logger up at my site - unlike the wiki logger this is updated much more frequently and includes the actual /auc listings (one for each unique seller found).

You can view it at:

http://ahungry.com/eqauctions/

For this to show current info users will need to submit their logs in real time. To simplify that, I have added a Windows exe (as well as *nix shell scripts) that will scan your defined log directory and send in the newest lines of your logs to the auction server.

You will not need to refresh the page to view updated auctions, some javascript will handle that for you.

There is also a search box, this search accepts all types of regex arguments (if you are unfamiliar, I will list some common ones):

To see all auctions for sale of a certain item (in this case a flowing black silk sash), filter by some custom "sale" verbage and the item name, by typing the following into the search box:

(wts|sell|wtt).*(fbss|flowing black silk)
To see all auctions of people wanting to buy a FBSS, you could enter:

(wtb|buy).*(fbss|flowing black silk)

I still have my EQ Atlas mirror with restyling up at:

http://ahungry.com/eqatlas/

[DOPE]

VERY cool. I think the most useful part about this will be helping to link up with people selling what you need and vice versa. Nice work bruddah.

[Swish]

Excellent work indeed! Look forward to using it :)

[bigforest]

awesome work!

[Flunklesnarkin]

nice man.. thanks for the work.


is there a way to actually post WTS or WTB an item on your site?


maybe a way to list wares so when people search they see everybody who is currently trying to sell that item.

[DoucLangur]

I will be providing a windows exe soon (open source) that you can run to automatically send a copy of your log file to my webservice (this will allow us to collect /auctions from zones outside EC and for times I'm actually playing and not idling in EC).

Be sure to post a link to the sourcecode so we can review it :) Giving people additional safety in executing your file.

Btw - if you can, please write your tool in a language that can be built with gnu compilers, allowing for builds on different platforms. I.e. no Visual whatever shit ;)

[Lids]

Good job! :)

[tristantio]

Be sure to post a link to the sourcecode so we can review it :) Giving people additional safety in executing your file.

Btw - if you can, please write your tool in a language that can be built with gnu compilers, allowing for builds on different platforms. I.e. no Visual whatever shit ;)

I actually use Linux as my main machine, so it will definitely be standard C (only depenency is libcurl).

I actually have a one-liner using tail, grep and curl to send the updates from my machine currently (parsing done on my webserver courtesy of perl - I'll put up that source also).

Since requiring windows users to install a cygwin setup or something equally involved would have been too much work, I opted to write a compiled binary for them so they can fire and forget it (its still being worked on).

[fischsemmel]

/devil's advocate 1

Trist is gonna hack soooo many of your accounts.

/devil's advocate 0

Cool!

[Slave]

Sites do not seem to be up.

[tristantio]

Sites do not seem to be up.

They're coming up for me fine and my VPS seems to be doing ok.

What browser are you using?

[tristantio]

Oh, also if you prefer to be served via lighttpd instead of apache you can visit:

http://ahungry.com:8000/eqauctions/

:D

[Slave]

They're coming up for me fine and my VPS seems to be doing ok.

What browser are you using?

Firefox, shrug. Probably just some of my defenses kicking in.

[tristantio]

Updating once per minute now and working on the client so others can post.

[Flunklesnarkin]

how do you put a WTB or WTS XXXX item on the site?

[tristantio]

how do you put a WTB or WTS XXXX item on the site?

I'll add a place to do that on site asap, right now you'd have to go into EC and do an /auction of it.

[bounky47]

I'll add a place to do that on site asap, right now you'd have to go into EC and do an /auction of it.

Love what you did here with this site. I'd like to make a suggestion when it comes to what you just responded to. Make the posting from the website a separate section. That way if people want to put something up they can put their forum name or something else besides whats there. Of course you might of been doing just that, but if you weren't please take it into consideration.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Also i think it would be a good idea if the posting "decayed" after a while..

I'm sure plenty of people will post stuff for sale on the site.. but very few will take it down.


maybe let people put an item on WTS or WTB for a week at most before the listing is automatically taken down unless updated by the player.

[tristantio]

Right now each person gets one auction max and they are sorted by date on the listing page.

I have added an option to upload a log file as a quick solution for others to contribute while I work on the windows exe.

[tristantio]

Ok, you should now be able to post directly on the page by specifying your character and alt names (optional).

[tristantio]

Well guys, I am going to have PC shut down for a bit, hopefully someone else sends up some logs. If you're interested, below is my small shell script (Linux) for reading and sending the log contents from a toon parked in EC with /log turned on.


#!/bin/bash

LOGDIR=~/eqLogs
for f in $LOGDIR/eqlog*; do
#Quickly check and make sure its been updated in last minute if we're going to send it
echo "Checking $f"
let now=$(date +%s)-60
[ $(stat --printf=%Z $f) -lt $now ] && continue;
echo "Working with: $f"
curl -F "dump=$(tail -n100 $f)" http://ahungry.com/aucDump.php
done

[DoucLangur]

#!/bin/bash


Good choice! :D shell scripts ftw

[tristantio]

Hi all,

The C program is up on my site, you can view it from the main auction page.

I currently need to boot into windows to create some pre-compiled binaries (right now I just have the source code up).

Please contribute your logs - I also have a basic upload option if you don't feel like running a program to do uploads for you.

Few things - the C program could probably be written better (right now I am saving a portion of the large log file to an out file, which means you'll have to have write permission in the directory you run the program).

[Swish]

Enjoying this, using it more than I thought I would... will start getting logs in as well :)

[phobus]

Hey, so I tried running this under OS X and got some errors because the BSD version of stat(1) doesn't support --printf. Also, my log dir includes a space which was screwing with the for loop so I hacked the IFS variable. This works for me, and probably will under Linux too:

#!/bin/bash

# Define your log directory here - easiest to symlink to your wine DIR
LOGDIR="/Applications/Project\ 1999.app/drive_c/eq/Logs"

# Don't mess with this!
IFS=$'\n'

while :; do
for f in `find ${LOGDIR}/eqlog* -newerct "1 minute ago"`; do
echo "Working with: $f"
curl -F "dump=$(tail -n 100 $f | grep auctions)" http://ahungry.com/aucDump.php
done
sleep 60
done

[tristantio]

Nice Phobus, works and much cleaner looking.

Writing IFS=$'\n' might be more legible but otherwise great change, I'll update as soon as I can on my site.

[phobus]

Ah, I knew there was a better way to do that but couldn't remember it. Thanks!

Just made some more changes: <strike>now it'll only grab the lines from the past minute including the word "auctions". So you won't get accused of spying on peoples' guild chat, and you won't get quite as much traffic from this</strike>. Aww, I can't seem to find an easy cross-platform way to do this. Oh well.

BTW, I never even know find would take a date specification like that. The manpage I was reading cryptically says it "is instead interpreted as a direct date specification of the form understood by cvs(1)" which I assumed meant some archaic hardcore Unix shit, but it turns out it's actually really flexible, which is cool.

[Wizerud]

Very nice work, thanks for this.

[tristantio]

I hit the same issue with cross platform parsing of just /auction text (which is why I opted to do it on the server end).

I could have either had windows users install strawberry perl at around 50M or create the C program which would be way smaller.

Damn Windows /shakes fist

[tristantio]

Btw, on Linux adding a grep -E will let you pre-parse so you don't send anything but auctions. I have also updated the C source to include this type of regex parsing.

I don't have a mac or bsd system set up right now to test it's grep functionality.


#!/bin/bash

#Define your log directory here - easiest to symlink to your wine DIR
LOGDIR=~/eqLogs

#Don't mess with this!
IFS=$'\n'

while :; do
for f in `find ${LOGDIR}/eqlog* -newerct "1 minute ago"`; do
echo "Working with: $f"
curl -F "dump=$(tail -n100 $f|grep -E '[A-Za-z] auctions, ')" http://ahungry.com/aucDump.php
done
sleep 60
done

[Flunklesnarkin]

must say this is helpful finding people to sell stuff.. even hours after they have shouted.

[Flunklesnarkin]

+1 for sticky



Nice to not have to poop sock EC for buying or selling stuff.

[john_savage1982]

Only improvement I see is scanning each text for items in EQ database and creating links in the feed to said items.

[Flunklesnarkin]

It would be nice if there was a way to track and list items and sort other various data pertaining to a specific item.


but i suspect the site will improve over time lol


as it is ... its already incredibly helpful... hate sitting in EC doing nothing while trying to sell and item or buy something.

[tristantio]

I do plan to add both of the aforementioned :D

[SirAlvarex]

+1

Bought a Jade Mace while I was in EK. Great tool.

[phobus]

Hmm, so if you leave this running and you're in a zone with no auction activity it keeps trying to make basically empty POSTs, which results in a usage message each time.

[tristantio]

Hi Phobus,

Corrected issue, I was checking that the dump was blank to display the usage info - now I'm just verifying that no post at all came in (so only those directly visiting the page see the usage / upload box).

Anytime you send in no data at all (but still use the POST method) it will keep quiet now.

Also updated to include item links and a style closer to /auc in EQ (let me know if you prefer old look).

[Flunklesnarkin]

I like the new color scheme.

[Versus]

this is awesome.

[bizzum]

this is awesome.

[SirAlvarex]

New look is much better. Black background is easier on the eyes IMO.

Also love the item linking.

[tristantio]

Anyone know the contact info of the wiki auction tracker maintainer?

I'd like to send over log files from my server to that service automatically but it looks like it currently relies on some javascript after doing the log upload, preventing my curl post from succeeding (I did upload my data set thus far by hand however).

For contributors, do not worry, your logs are removed after they are read into the database - to regenerate the log file for the wiki upload I simply pulled the information back out and put it into the base eqlog.txt text format.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Anyone know the contact info of the wiki auction tracker maintainer?

I'd like to send over log files from my server to that service automatically but it looks like it currently relies on some javascript after doing the log upload, preventing my curl post from succeeding (I did upload my data set thus far by hand however).

For contributors, do not worry, your logs are removed after they are read into the database - to regenerate the log file for the wiki upload I simply pulled the information back out and put it into the base eqlog.txt text format.

I'd say put a post on the wiki.. rhavin probably knows who takes care of it.

[Esidebob]

The site loads on my phone but neither browser on my computer :(

[Flunklesnarkin]

did this stop updating?

[Phased]

The site loads on my phone but neither browser on my computer :(

Glad I'm not the only one.

[Lishrac]

Glad I'm not the only one.

Me too. No browser on my computer will open this page.

[colleekitty]

Me too. No browser on my computer will open this page.

[john_savage1982]

Looks amazing.

Some new suggestions:

1) Mouseover preview for items
2) Alongside item price the % difference from the average price from the price track so people can see what sort of profit the seller is trying to make.

[john_savage1982]

Also wtf why did you write this in C - is speed that much of a concern =P.

[tristantio]

Hi all,

Auction tracking is dependent on people uploading their log files. For the first few days I left a toon idling in EC - yesterday I didn't sign in (I wanted to see if anyone else would hop on board to contributing their log files).

Today I forgot to sign in, so the last updates are when I was on last night.

To contribute your logs simply use one of the methods described on the site, or manually upload at:

http://ahungry.com/aucDump.php

Thanks!

Edit: The "vision" I had for this auction tracker was that people would use one of the log uploading programs to contribute in the background as they play their characters. This would allow us to collect auctions from all zones, not just EC while my alt idles there (although those are the most important).

[tristantio]

Quick question to those of you who cannot resolve the domain - are you using a legitimate copy of Windows?

There is a DNS trojan and I am getting the feeling it may be included on the pirated win 7 copies.

Has anyone on OSX or a Linux distro had an issue resolving the domain?

If yes, then it most likely is something I need to resolve with my VPS host.

[tristantio]

Hi all,

I was able to replicate the DNS failure to resolve under certain cases and have updated to use a different IP for the site - testing shows this fixes the case with failure to resolve (so you should all be able to connect now).

[Lishrac]

Hot damn I can connect. Nice fix sir.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Ok ill take a shot at uploading some logs later.

[tristantio]

The C source code is there for download on the site if you want to upload logs automatically.

Right now it will compile perfectly under something like Cygwin if you install libcurl in your Cygwin install (however if you're going to do that, you could just use the bash script for the same effect).

I haven't compiled on windows in a very long time and am having some issues compiling under mingw32 with regex and curl support (after I get it compiled I'll put up the exe).

[Flunklesnarkin]

kk.. i think once you do that it will be easier for most folks to keep the auction tracker up to date.

[phobus]

Getting an empty response from your webserver:

$ telnet 216.172.175.0 80
Trying 216.172.175.0...
Connected to 216.172.175.0.
Escape character is '^]'.
GET / HTTP/1.1
Host: ahungry.com

HTTP/1.1 200 OK
Date: Sat, 25 Feb 2012 02:16:11 GMT
Server: Apache/2.2.3 (CentOS)
X-Powered-By: ahungry
Set-Cookie: PHPSESSID=65qiok4msvi5jflmtmn7ksk0n7; path=/
Expires: Thu, 19 Nov 1981 08:52:00 GMT
Cache-Control: no-store, no-cache, must-revalidate, post-check=0, pre-check=0
Pragma: no-cache
Content-Length: 0
Connection: close
Content-Type: text/html; charset=UTF-8

Connection closed by foreign host.

[tristantio]

Stupid VPS ran out of UDP sockets and required a reboot - site back up.

Not sure if it has to do with the DNS update I made today or not.

[bamzal]

can we sticky this

[bman8810]

I like this more and more each time I use it.

[john_savage1982]

Also, might consider creating side by side display for WTB and WTS.

[tristantio]

Windows exe is on the site now, please use it to send your logs in! (tested under Windows XP - should run fine on other versions)

[phobus]

Does anyone else see this?

http://i.imgur.com/zjzDh.png

[mefisto]

This is the shit man! Thank you very much!

[tristantio]

Does anyone else see this?

http://i.imgur.com/zjzDh.png

Hi Phobos, that is due to the page refreshing every minute, the newly read in auctions go slightly above the existing ones.

I will add an additional call to the function that adds item links and apply the newer css style to the "newest auctions" area.

Mark as fixed :)

[phobus]

Ah, cool. Wasn't sure if it was a CSS problem or a browser problem.

Also, I'm guessing there's no way to change the time stamps on the old auction lines to keep them accurate? Probably way too much stuff to update every minute.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Ah, cool. Wasn't sure if it was a CSS problem or a browser problem.

Also, I'm guessing there's no way to change the time stamps on the old auction lines to keep them accurate? Probably way too much stuff to update every minute.

could just put a click to refresh button somewhere on the page.


I know you could just click your browser refresh button but just a thought.

[tristantio]

I'll fix the time stamps - I had a refresh button but removed it to encourage users to let page auto-load new listings.

[tristantio]

Date and auto load improved (both will remain current).

Auto load of new auctions will respect filter for the quick filter box (if you have filtered for something, only new auctions containing that match will pop up).

New auctions and auctions as of page load merged into one auction area.

Keep the suggestions coming.

Regarding separating WTS/WTB into columns - many auctions contain both, however you can use regex in the quick filter, so, for instance, if you wanted to search for a FBSS you could type:

wts.*(fbss|flowing)

That will bring up any results where someone had a "wtb" followed by "fbss" or "Flowing Black Silk Sash".

If you wanted to sell an item, you could search:

wtb.*(fbss|flowing)

[tristantio]

Made some updates that should cause the site to render better on text based browsers as well as mobile devices.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Made some updates that should cause the site to render better on text based browsers as well as mobile devices.

nice man.. thanks for the work and the awesome tool

[Deezle]

Yes thank you, totally lovin' it. I've gotten some good use out of it already. Being able to shop for upgrades while I'm playing my main toon instead of my EC mule = win.

[Grozmok]

Hey, thanks again for putting this together! It's pretty awesome. :)

Is there a way you can filter out crap like this:

[49 seconds ago] Strikerr auctions, 'Strikerr's Casino at T (http://wiki.project1999.org/index.php/Strikerr%27s%20Casino%20at%20T)2 , /Random (http://wiki.project1999.org/index.php/Random)100 , 65+ x2, 95+x3, 100x4 , 100 plat , 200 plat, |.'

?

[tristantio]

Hi Grozmok,

Currently each person gets one /auction listing (the most recent), so if a casino runner is included once in awhile you could filter on your end by just WTS/WTB auctions by typing in the search box:

(wts|wtb)

If it becomes a big issue I can remove any lines containing the word "casino" at log parse time.

[jalemm]

thnx for post good job +rep

[Grozmok]

Tracker down? Last update was 11 hours ago?

[Flunklesnarkin]

Tracker down? Last update was 11 hours ago?


It updates when people load the logs.

[tristantio]

If you enjoy using the tracker, please contribute by leaving an alt idling in EC to upload logs.

I have a program to automatically do this on all 3 big name systems, Windows (binary aka exe), MacOSX (shell script) and Linux (binary and shell script).

The shell script should also work on OpenBSD, leaving the only unchecked OS at GnuHURD (although it'd likely work under that as well but I'd have to set up an environment to check).

The download should take less than 5 seconds and is simple as opening up a command prompt, running the program pointed to your log file and turning on /log inside the game.

[Flunklesnarkin]

.

[Grozmok]

TBH if this doesn't just run in the background when I'm playing EQ it's not happening on my machine.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Looks like you have to start it each time you want to record auction listings


just tested out when i restarted comp.

[tristantio]

in the works, I am rewriting windows client so it will scan common log dirs for the newest log file and submit.

when complete you will be able to double click the exe without doing anything else, it will open a cmd window and autorun until closed.

I could have it auto run at boot but want to avoid an installer or service setup since it's such a one purpose exe that requires no user input

[Flunklesnarkin]

yah if its just a double click to start that would be simple enough for most windows users.


Would you be able to start this after you were already in eq?


like if you ran to EC to afk.. maybe you could tab out start it then go afk?

[tristantio]

Hi Flunkle, you could run it whenever you like, as long as the /log is turned on.

The revised program will work as follows:

eqAuction.ini file included in package download - will have a few default locations listed where a log file may reside in the default EQ install (can windows users post these for me? probably C:\Program Files(x86)\EverQuest\Logs or something I'm guessing?

The user can hand edit the ini file if they have a vastly different install location (different drive or something).

The program will check once per minute for the newest log file between the directories included in the ini file.

The program will send the last 100 lines of that log file to my server.

You could start the eqAuction.exe from any location (as long as libcurl.dll and the ini file are in that same folder - they will be by default after unzipping) and it will still work.

You can stop it at anytime, or leave it going while you're in other zones (maybe you'll catch some great Oasis /auctions or something).

Since it doesn't hook into the game at all, it doesn't matter if the game is running or not while you run it.

[teekanc]

Where do you live, Tristantio? You've had time to create this so I know oral sex must come rarely, so I have convinced my girlfriend to deliver.

[Flunklesnarkin]

I'm uploading logs atm but its not updating.. seems last refresh was 8 hour ago

[tristantio]

last updates were from my uploads, the more recent was manually added. The logs only add auctions if the timestamp is newer. Are you on est?

if so, it may be an issue with existing windows client. What text is in your outfile now? Server end seems ok...make sure you are pointing to your active toons log and /log is on

[Grozmok]

I see this:

[49 minutes ago] Tristantio auctions, 'test.'

No other updates though.

[Flunklesnarkin]

no im on central time


but yep i have logs on and its not updating..


I'm not sure the turn around time on upload to posting but figure something probably should have showed up by now.


Restarted it all and its been going about 20 mins w/o an update.

[tristantio]

Can you try uploading the file here:

http://ahungry.com/aucDump.php

[Flunklesnarkin]

ok i'll give that a shot i finally stopped it a bit ago but it should be a fairly large file atm.



If i have more problems would that be a good spot for manual uploads?

[tristantio]

Yup, that's what it is for :D

[Flunklesnarkin]

i dumped a few hours worth of auctions on there

[tristantio]

Well, it took me two nights but I have a true fire and forget windows exe up there now.

You will have to modify your eqAuction.ini file one time to set your Log path/directory location and then from there on out it will scan that directory, read the newest file and send off to the server.

Please let me know if you find any problems in testing it!

Oh, I made the file a .zip instead of .7z so it is even easier to open up now.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Well, it took me two nights but I have a true fire and forget windows exe up there now.

You will have to modify your eqAuction.ini file one time to set your Log path/directory location and then from there on out it will scan that directory, read the newest file and send off to the server.

Please let me know if you find any problems in testing it!

Oh, I made the file a .zip instead of .7z so it is even easier to open up now.


Nice man thanks for the hard work.. ill give it a shot tomorrow ;p

[Grozmok]

So, all I need to do is point the file at my log dir and run it?

Do I need to turn on logging first? You might want to mention that and also, how the hell do I turn on logging?

;)

[Flunklesnarkin]

its pretty simple to turn logging on once you are in game

just type /log on



or alternatively

/log off


to turn it off

[Yanomamo]

or just /log

[Flunklesnarkin]

so much easier to use the new auction tracker.. thanks for hard work on it..


double click and forget ^^

[Flunklesnarkin]

Looks like my logs are updating now in close to real time


but there seems to be some problem with the time coding. Looks like all my data is in the future ;p



and one thing i noticed is.. if i have more stuff to sell than fits on a single line.


It always deletes the oldest shout from the list.


Like i did one auction.. and it appeared on the tracker.. then few mins later i did another auction and my previous one disappeared.

[Psycher]

Really cool stuff, thanks for this.

[tristantio]

to avoid filling up my paltry 10G vps I only save the most recent auction (one auc per person).

I'll have to work on timezone issue, I can prolly fix on server end

[Messianic]

Coolest thing in a long time. Great job.

[BarackObooma]

It's been showing -6980 seconds as the newest auction for hours.

[tristantio]

The logs uploaded were on a different timezone than my server, so when the file dates were parsed they were in the future.

I have added a fix so any logs submitted with future dates will be set to the date at the log parse time.

I have manually corrected the existing entries.

Continue to let me know anything else weird!

[Grozmok]

bump

More people need to start using this for it to be consistently useful.

I've got mine set-up.

[Swish]

Beats the wiki in my mind, nice to track down a seller if I'm after something in particular (Lambent, Darkforge, weapons etc) without having to do the time sat in the tunnel with one eye on the TV :D

Keep it going :)

[tristantio]

I'll always make sure to log a couple hours each night so it will never become too stale, I notice more people have been sending in logs as well.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Beats the wiki in my mind, nice to track down a seller if I'm after something in particular (Lambent, Darkforge, weapons etc) without having to do the time sat in the tunnel with one eye on the TV :D

Keep it going :)


for sure i use it to sell or buy one or two items each time i log in.


Great way to make sure the person who wants an item gets it.

[Grozmok]

Can you update the first post to include search arguments please?

:D

[ArumTP]

its sorta like being in EC without all the pain of going there, nice!

[Flunklesnarkin]

I love how the price of stuff has been dropping like crazy ever since amelinda went on a crusade against rmt'ers


I think its actually working.

[tristantio]

Updated the first post to clean it up a bit.

[Yanomamo]

I love how the price of stuff has been dropping like crazy ever since amelinda went on a crusade against rmt'ers


I think its actually working.

I think prices are actually going down because of all the IB peeps unloading their stuff.

[Flunklesnarkin]

Either way its pretty nice ;p

[Grozmok]

Can we get this made into a sticky?

[Zod]

why isnt this stickied? =(

[killa0885pve]

So i'm pretty retarded when it comes to this type of stuff, but i use your Webpage all the time.

An Aussie here, so when i am usually playing all the Auctions are 8 hours old. I'd like to get this going on my comp, to keep it fresh for you late night US EQ'ers.

Is this an epic head fuck or that new windows.exe is it got some pretty easy to follow instructions in there? As i'd like to contribute if possible.

[tristantio]

So i'm pretty retarded when it comes to this type of stuff, but i use your Webpage all the time.

An Aussie here, so when i am usually playing all the Auctions are 8 hours old. I'd like to get this going on my comp, to keep it fresh for you late night US EQ'ers.

Is this an epic head fuck or that new windows.exe is it got some pretty easy to follow instructions in there? As i'd like to contribute if possible.

It's actually super easy!

Just download the Windows exe package (it is a .zip file).

Then right click on the file and choose Unzip to create an eqAuctions folder.

Go inside the folder, you will see a file named eqAuctions.ini, if you double click it will open a plain text file in Notepad.

There will be a few lines of text, each starting with the hash (#) symbol. That means it is a comment and not parsed by the program.

Uncomment the line that lists your EverQuest log directory path (this will be based on where you installed EverQuest).

Now just double click the exe after turning on /log inside the game and you're done!

(And from then on, all you have to do is double click the exe after turning on /log in game)

[Ishirey]

Hello!

First of all thanks a lot Tristantio for this tool, this is a wonderful addition to the server.

Was using the windows version on my virtual PC since a few days ago.

Now playing Everquest on my macs using Wine, and I would like to know if anyone knows how to enable this tool with this. I would like to continue to contribute. :)

Thanks a lot!

[phobus]

Hello!

First of all thanks a lot Tristantio for this tool, this is a wonderful addition to the server.

Was using the windows version on my virtual PC since a few days ago.

Now playing Everquest on my macs using Wine, and I would like to know if anyone knows how to enable this tool with this. I would like to continue to contribute. :)

Thanks a lot!

I'm using it on OS X, running EQ under WINE like you (saw your post in the Mac/WINE thread). The shell script on tristantio's page works great for us. You'll need to open it in a text editor and change the LOGDIR=... line to point to the log file under your P99 install. For me, it's:

LOGDIR="/Applications/Project\ 1999.app/drive_c/eq/Logs"

Make sure any spaces have a backslash in front of them, like above.

Once you've done that, you can run the script from Terminal (which is how I do it). I don't know if you can make it run just by double-clicking; that opens it in an editor for me, but I think I may have changed the from the default. If you just save it to your home folder (usually /Users/yourname) you can run it by opening Terminal and typing: ./eqAuction.sh

Hope that helps!

[Zaphyer]

now i can read EC auctions without having to be in the game! thats so awesome. someone needs to see if this works on a smartphone too.

[tristantio]

now i can read EC auctions without having to be in the game! thats so awesome. someone needs to see if this works on a smartphone too.

It does, at least on my Palm Pre running WebOS.

The menu is a little wide for phones still and wraps, but I have the proper viewport scaling so it will size to your phone's screen width instead of requiring you to zoom in etc

[Grozmok]

bump for sticky status

[Flunklesnarkin]

What would it cost you to be able to run this so it could track more than one auction at a time from a person?


maybe say 3 or 4 shouts?

[tristantio]

I'll do some size checks and see how much space the database is taking now, I may be able to do the last 3 /auctions.

[Flunklesnarkin]

I think even two would be nice


so you could have a WTB shout and a WTS shout

[tristantio]

Each person is now able to have 3 unique auctions.

[Grozmok]

Need to get more people using this so it's more reliable.

It's strange that when I have logging enabled and the exe running, the page doesn't always seem to refresh with recent /auctions

[tristantio]

I believe the auto-refresh is set to 5 minutes right now (1 minute refreshes were pulling too much bandwidth).

Performing a search in the quick search will grab the most recent results however.

Regarding more contributors, I am probably going to add some nagging/locked out functionality for people using it without having uploaded in the past (or last week or something) to give incentive to contribute.

[Ishirey]

I'm using it on OS X, running EQ under WINE like you (saw your post in the Mac/WINE thread). The shell script on tristantio's page works great for us. You'll need to open it in a text editor and change the LOGDIR=... line to point to the log file under your P99 install. For me, it's:

LOGDIR="/Applications/Project\ 1999.app/drive_c/eq/Logs"

Make sure any spaces have a backslash in front of them, like above.

Once you've done that, you can run the script from Terminal (which is how I do it). I don't know if you can make it run just by double-clicking; that opens it in an editor for me, but I think I may have changed the from the default. If you just save it to your home folder (usually /Users/yourname) you can run it by opening Terminal and typing: ./eqAuction.sh

Hope that helps!

Thanks a lot Phobus!

I'll try that right away. :D

[Grozmok]

It's strange that sometimes my search results are not consistent.

If I search for one item:

(wts|sell|wtt).*(Gatorscale Sleeves)

it works fine, but if I search for a list of items:

(wts|sell|wtt).*(Clay Guardian Shield|Gatorscale Sleeves|Scaled Mystic Gauntlets|Cloak of the Ice Bear|Platinum Bloodstone Earring|Carved Ivory Mask|Dark Rust Boots|Glowing Bone Collar|Tattered Mantle|Lizardscale Belt|Golden Jaded Bracelet|Gloomwater Harpoon|Platinum Dragon Totem)

It sometimes doesn't show anything.

Any ideas?

[tristantio]

All I can think of is to make sure that you do not have any spaces before or after your search terms, as spaces will be included as part of the search (so if you had a double space before or after your parenthesis terms it would not included the result unless a seller had double spaces).

Searching for the big search you posted above shows me a list of those items, if the problem is consistent then it may be a bug in the programming or a cap on the database query length or something.

[Grozmok]

It seems to be working correctly at the moment, but I swear I saw an issue before.

If I can get you repro steps I'll follow-up.

[tristantio]

Just wanted to give a heads up that I should have hover links implemented soon, so you will be able to hover to see the item stats and click to see the p99 wiki page for pricing history.

With the hover stats I will also be able to add searching/filtering by stats, so you could search for all items being sold with 5 or more INT, or haste on it etc.

[Yanomamo]

I really want to do this, but the last time I tried I realized it needs permissions to my EQ folder. How do you recommend i solve that? Run the program as administrator every time i open it or what?

[tristantio]

It should only need read permission for the new exe, unless you are running it from within your EQ folder.

The exe will make an output file in whatever directory you run the exe in, try downloading the most recent windows exe, filling out your eqAuction.ini file properly and running from inside the folder you unzip it into.

[BarackObooma]

I've been getting odd results when I've been pulling this up time to time. Right now there was one auction 3 hours ago, another 23 hours ago and then everything else is 1 day ago or more.

With it being prime time, I find it hard to believe no one's ran it since then.

[tristantio]

I think people just failed to run it, I ran it some tonight and the log updated fine.

Oh, btw, hover links are now up for item stats :D

HUGE improvement IMHO.

Next on the agenda is to allow searching by item filters (find all items with 5 or more int and 20 or more mana and so on).

For the item filter page I'll probably allow searching current auctions as well as full DB results if you want to make a wishlist.

The 3 hour auction was from entering the /auc via the site's sell box btw.

[Grozmok]

Mouse over text is pretty schnazzy!

[packmuleforlife]

this is the best thing ever

[Grozmok]

I like the new advanced search, but it might need some instructions for users on how the search logic functions.

Like if I enter a value for say, STR, does it only return results with exactly that value or can I specify a range? It might be nice if it returned results that a user can specify via some simple logical operators (such as: greater than, equal to and less than) via a check box? I don't know who is going to perform a search over and over incrementing that value (STR in this case) by one until they find the item they're looking for.

What might have greater value to the player base, is to give them the option to also search for race, class and deity.

Either way, thanks for this and these new features. This has helped me track down sellers/buyers and items more than once. I love it when someone replies to my tell with, "Yeah, I'm still selling that item, but I auctioned it six hours ago. How did you know I still had it?"

:cool:

[Ishirey]

I'm using it on OS X, running EQ under WINE like you (saw your post in the Mac/WINE thread). The shell script on tristantio's page works great for us. You'll need to open it in a text editor and change the LOGDIR=... line to point to the log file under your P99 install. For me, it's:

LOGDIR="/Applications/Project\ 1999.app/drive_c/eq/Logs"

Make sure any spaces have a backslash in front of them, like above.

Once you've done that, you can run the script from Terminal (which is how I do it). I don't know if you can make it run just by double-clicking; that opens it in an editor for me, but I think I may have changed the from the default. If you just save it to your home folder (usually /Users/yourname) you can run it by opening Terminal and typing: ./eqAuction.sh

Hope that helps!

Hello! Me again :D

Small update for those who are in the same situation.

Everything works fine now. Followed Phobus advice and also just had to make the script executable (with "chmod +x filename.sh" ) and now I can run it easily from Terminal by typing ./eqauction.sh

Thanks!

P.S.
I love it when someone replies to my tell with, "Yeah, I'm still selling that item, but I auctioned it six hours ago. How did you know I still had it?"
:cool:

This is so true! :cool:

[tristantio]

Right now advanced search needs a lot of work, currently it pulls all items that are equal to or greater than the entered values (so if I put in 2 str 2 wis, items with at least 3 str AND 3 wis will be pulled) - however it pulls from the main item database which I haven't pruned yet (so it is gear from 99 to 2012 - 93,000 possible items).

Due to that, I am limiting it to 10 results sorted by ID in the database (so, hopefully oldest first).

Then those 10 results are dropped into the auction quick filter box, so if any auctions match one of those 10 items they will be shown.

Ideally I will query only the old items.

Lastly, race/class usability is done by bitmasks, which I will have to work on a good implementation for filtering my query by.

[Vlayde1127]

How do you change your selling name on the site?

I mistakenly put in the name of an item in there thinking that was the search bar and now it keeps saying "Hello X, What are you selling today?".

I thought clearing browser data would've resetted it but not having any luck.

[tristantio]

Right now the name can only be changed manually, looking at the database it seems like a lot of people put item names in there.

[Stragor]

amazing site! good work!

[Kender]

Right now the name can only be changed manually, looking at the database it seems like a lot of people put item names in there.

yep. too easy to accidentally click that field instead of the search field and type an item name in. and you can't change the name. annoying

[BarackObooma]

Why is this not stickied?

[Ciel]

bump

[bizzum]

Can this get stickied in the EC forums or something? its really damn useful.

[tristantio]

Yay! Sticky!

[tristantio]

Just FYI (@everyone) the site may go down while I transfer registrars.

[Grozmok]

Need more people using the .exe so it will get more updates.

Right now they're pretty sporadic at best.

[tristantio]

Lately I seem to be the only one sending them in, so I agree, if you like using the tracker and like frequent updates, PLEASE run it when you're not actually playing.

I'm not sure if less people notice the post since it went sticky or more.

[Flunklesnarkin]

I'd upload more but i'm hardly ever in EC :(

[tristantio]

Flunkle, you can always upload via an alt you park in EC (as can anyone).

Simply sign out of main, sign in alt, turn on /log and run the uploader.

@everyone, I added some Google Adwords to the right column, if they seem obtrusive let me know and I can change to something else like a top banner.

[Swish]

Will get hold of the EXE, I don't find myself in EC too often but the tracker is so helpful (helped me source some sellers of items I've been after) that having a good coverage can only improve it further :)

Keep up the awesome work! :)

[Frootloop]

bump, this needs to be pushed to other peoples pc's i've bought plenty of items through this by just hot swapping to the alt in ec with the cash!

[iksarol]

useless thread

[tristantio]

Glad you found it useful!

[iksarol]

Glad you found it useful!

i didnt :eek:

[formallydickman]

i didnt :eek:

Probably the only person here who hasn't found it useful. Love the site, thanks.

[Malrubius]

Awesome site, keep up the great work.

[tristantio]

Hi all, I received some PM's referencing the tracker not updating - this is user driven, you guys need to be uploading your logs when not actively playing (idle your toon in EC) if you want to see the auctions updated frequently.

If we have one person doing it, and they take a few nights off, it isn't updated for anyone.

[phobus]

Yeah, I can't be AFK all the time, you know. :)

[magus678]

I'm trying to set up my log file using the directions and am having trouble.

I've uncommented the proper directory, and turned on logging within game. But when I click the eqAuction app it opens a momentary dos window and closes. Is that the problem?

[tristantio]

Hi magus678, that dos window should remain open while the program runs, can you copy and paste the contents of your eqAuction.ini file?

Also let me know what OS you are running (win7/xp/vista).

Thanks!

[SwordNboard]

I'll be doing my best to run this for a while since it seems no one has for a few days. Cheers!

[Landylil]

Do you think they'd give me an IP exception to setup a dedicated computer for this? I have a media pc that I could use to just run the client and update the site. I know I love having access to the site from work, it's helping me learn the economy very quickly.

[tristantio]

Hi Landylil, I doubt it, I know people have had mules parked in EC idling (who did have IP exemptions) buying/selling prior to me making this site, and got in trouble.

You could always ask though - best bet is to just run the uploader while you're genuinely afk and hope a few others do the same (then everyone benefits).

[Landylil]

Are there any special file permissions I need to setup for this to work? Running Windows7 atm. The cmd prompt would open and immediately close on me. I'm assuming it should remain open.

[falkun]

Note for those wishing to utilize this function (and allow the tracker to link items). USE A STANDARD FORMAT.

1) Utilize commas (,) or slashes (/ or \) between items. Hyphens, especially without spaces, do NOT work. Spaces between items also does not work properly.
2) Link the item if possible, spell it correctly otherwise. Else the auction tracker will not reference the appropriate wiki item.
3) Use /auction. /shout & /ooc do not get your sales added to the auction tracker.

I'll update as I notice more examples of failed conversion from stated intentions to actual implementation.

[tristantio]

Hi Falkun, thanks for the advice on the item linking. I could probably adjust so hyphens work properly, but I believe the reason I did not initially was that some item names contain them.

Since none (or extremely few) item names contain a comma (,) or slash (/), I was able to assume that was a breaking point in the /auc log.

The regular expressions I'm using for this break apart can be seen in the eqAuction.js file the site uses.


//Define regexes
var item = new RegExp(/([A-Z][a-z][A-Za-z ':`\-]+?)([^A-Za-z ':`\-])/g);
var add_ = new RegExp(/([a-z])([A-Z])/g);
var sell = new RegExp(/([ ]*?)(Selling|Seller|WTS)([: ]*?)/gi);
var buy = new RegExp(/([ ]*?)(Offering|Buying|WTB)([: ]*?)/gi);
var caps = new RegExp(/( [A-Z][A-Z])/g);
var dash = new RegExp(/[\-\|]+? /g);
var dash2 = new RegExp(/ [\-\|]+?/g);


and applied on the fly as such:

function findItems(target) {
target = target ? target : '.aul';
$(target).each(function() {
var text = $(this).html();
text = text.replace(add_, '$1, $2');
text = text.replace(sell, '$1(WTS)$3');
text = text.replace(buy, '$1(WTB)$3');
text = text.replace(caps, ', $1');
text = text.replace(dash, ', ');
text = text.replace(dash2, ', ');
text = text.replace(item, '<a href="http://wiki.project1999.org/index.php/$1" alt="$1" class="ii">$1<pre class="itemTT"></pre></a>$2');
$(this).html(text);
});
}

[Aqua]

It looks like the server code for this assumes the uploads are coming from Eastern time zone. I uploaded earlier this week and saw that all the ones I did were displayed as 2 hours in the past since I am in Mountain time zone. I'd recommend adding an optional parameter to your upload page that either accepts the current timezone, GMT offset, or timestamp. My recommendation is for the client to provide the current timestamp since that should be easy to do in any OS.

[Randarn]

Trys- my main who i enjoy reselling more than play has joined the band wagon..you'll start seeing a lot more auctions now..i'm strictly a reseller and on often. Just learned about this from a friend...AWESOME program..love the search box...incoming ec updates yall enjoy =p.

[Vega]

Is this toast? Page doesn't seem to load any more for me.

[Randarn]

Site is back up I'll start trying to upload again. For some reason when i turn on the program it makes my eq client window go black..it doesn't freeze the program..my manager says its still running fine...but i can't see anything. ?

[Randarn]

Your auction in realtime is back up...im streaming almost 24/7 ...enjoy!

edit: I will be offline from Nov 15-18th , 2012 for an early family thanksgiving trip. See you all monday.

[tristantio]

Had an issue with my BIND service (essentially taking the site down with no active DNS), I believe it should be fixed now.

[Randarn]

Cools I'll try again after thanksgiving weekend.

-Trys

[Randarn]

I can't get it to work. I think its a compatability issue with windows 7 quad core or something and I'm not computer savy. Everytime I start up log then turn program on it makes my eq client screen go black and i cant use it. Sorry..unless someone can help me i'm sol. Oh and if i want to upload my logs manually...I know if it was successful when it says Thanks! correct? just making sure it doesnt say that when it fails as well.

[tristantio]

Hi Randarn,

It shouldn't do anything to the EQ Client itself at all, it just reads the log file defined in the .ini (where you point the program to read log files from).

All it is doing (the exe) is pushing your log file data to the listening web server.

[cadiz]

DNS issues with the site?

Host ahungry.com not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

[cadiz]

DNS issues with the site?

Host ahungry.com not found: 2(SERVFAIL)

It's working now, yay!

[sinbads1]

the update times are horrible sometimes goes 24hours

[August]

That's because it requires someone to be running the grepper logged into EC... If no one is using that software then there are no updates -- at least that's how I understand it.

[tristantio]

That's correct, instructions to use it are in the OP and the download is on the site (at the top).

[kylok]

(http://ahungry.com/eqauctions/)
Seems to be down as of 9am Pacific 2/14/13 =(

[bhatz01]

It certainly does.

[tristantio]

It lives!

[Xenocida]

Got a weird issue.. I wanted to set in EC and run the updater, but for some reason when I do it gives me the you have disconnected message in EQ and crashes the game so hard I can't even end process to close it (just restarted twice.. decided to post here instead of trying a 3rd time).

I'm just confused because I don't see how that's possible, it's just parsing a log file right? Nothing to do with the actual game..

[tristantio]

Hi Xenocida - that definitely seems odd, and you are correct, it simply reads the log file contents and sends them to the server, it doesn't touch game code/processes in any way.

[Xenocida]

Hi Xenocida - that definitely seems odd, and you are correct, it simply reads the log file contents and sends them to the server, it doesn't touch game code/processes in any way.

Well who knows, maybe the upload spike is just crashing my router or something :P, I'll mess with it more later, just wanted to check to see if you had heard of someone with a similar problem.

Tried it again and it seems that yea for some reason my whole net is going down for a split moment (not just eq), I've had a similar problem once before, think it's just a issue with my laptops wirelesscard.. anyways, no big deal, can just do manual uploads when I want to contribute.

[alaiwy0503]

Has anybody been talking about how AWFUL the new layout is? it is basically unusable.

[tristantio]

You're the first - what do you dislike about it? Just the left column filler picture?

[Esidebob]

this needs to be more consistently working : /

[Thulack]

I know stuff's not free but i don't bother going to the site now that my adblocker causes a popup basically saying unblock me or you can't use.

[tristantio]

I'll probably add something soon where I check if your IP has uploaded logs within the last 24 hours, and if so, you can use without ads.

It's pretty simple to allow one site through (and avoid my new feature)

[tristantio]

On second thought, I'm going to remove that little annoyance, sorry!

[Sylexis]

It's been timing out a lot on me, seems to be very laggy during primetime.

[Victorio]

Quick question : does this only show the listings parsed from YOUR own log file, or the combined contribution of everyone's log files? And does it have a requirement of uploading your own log files to be able to really use the service (right now the latest auctions I see are from 3 weeks ago.)

[tristantio]

Its the summation of all the uploaded logs from all users.

3 weeks ago is the cutoff as the playerbase has been slacking on uploading :)

[Aanaf]

Hello,

I am interested in some of these items but how do I contact the users? I am assuming that those who post items for sale are using their "in-game" name since I could not find them in the forum through PMs. I just wanted to make sure so I can make contact with some of these sellers.

thank you!

-Aanaf

[tristantio]

Yup, the names on the site are just their in game names as caught by /log in the east commons.

[SwordNboard]

Now updating!

[dethbringre]

I just noticed this little beauty.. I've been practicing my IOS/Android programming skills lately.. You guys think there would be any use of me putting this into an App format? Seems to be fairly straightforward for an app, maybe if I get more motivation and it goes well, some system of pseudo buying/selling through the app?

Lemme know what you guys think.

[Abbot]

Is there a more detailed info on getting it to work on windows? Pointed to logs and hit the .exe and prompt comes up and quickly closes. Doesn't feel like it is working and nothing is being uploaded. Also, the site appears down.

[tristantio]

Site is back up, regarding windows, you may have to make sure the .ini file is pointing to your proper log directory (I don't recall if you do or do not need a trailing slash, been awhile since I've booted into windows)

[Abbot]

Trailing slash fixed the problem. Should include them in the # denoted examples .ini.

[Acidic_Hate]

I just noticed this little beauty.. I've been practicing my IOS/Android programming skills lately.. You guys think there would be any use of me putting this into an App format? Seems to be fairly straightforward for an app, maybe if I get more motivation and it goes well, some system of pseudo buying/selling through the app?

Lemme know what you guys think.

This

[Javacup]

Good work, I leave it running all day on my mule now. Wish others would do the same.

[Toofliss]

How about adding a few boxes at the bottom to be able to manually submit a wtb/wts auction without being in EC (via ahungry.com)?

name - auction - submit

Then it gets parsed and put into the next refresh the same as if we had uploaded a log file? Allows a way to virtually hook into the EC tunnel wtb/wts without actually sitting there.

Gwat

[Emerald_keep]

Any Idea why all of a sudden it wont update? still says latest is four hours ago.

[tristantio]

Did you try parking a mule there and running the log uploader and it still won't update?

Most likely my mule which I leave parked there got logged out 4 hours ago :)

[Fern]

Very cool man I appreciate the work you put in.. I love your site/program!

[Aanaf]

I am a little confused about the tracker. This may be a noob question but how do I contact the person? Is the name in the tracker their forum name or is it their in game name and I just have to hope I catch them online?

Thanks!

[Juhstin]

I am a little confused about the tracker. This may be a noob question but how do I contact the person? Is the name in the tracker their forum name or is it their in game name and I just have to hope I catch them online?

Thanks!

It is their ingame name. The tracker logs everything in /auction within EC Zone. So what you see is just a relay of the chat from people running the program to help logging it. So if you see something posted its someone in game and you'll just have to hope they're online when you log on.

[Aanaf]

Thanks!

[andrewstan]

awesome good job:)http://watchfree.me/58/w.png:)

[-Catherin-]

Soooo

Ive been getting tells all week asking about the manastone im selling.

Thing is ive never even owned a manastone, much less tried to sell one. but im on there as selling one. Can the admin wipe me out of there so these tells will stop?

[BigHurb]

so how much u want for that manastone catherin

[tristantio]

You sure? I search for "manastone" and "mana stone" but do not see your name coming up (is it an alt name)?

Likely someone was manually entering an item and did so as your user name (and possibly has changed it since).

[tristantio]

Site down due to a provider issue, hopefully back up soon!

[SuperSane]

Thanks

[Grevan]

The site never updates when I attempt to contribute my logs. Program states:

Log uploaded!
Now we wait 60 seconds...

But still nothing new on website. What am I doing wrong?

[tristantio]

May be a timezone issue if you're not EST

[Grevan]

Ahh, yeah I'm MST.

[Toofliss]

Is there any possibility that we work up some sort of utility that pulls directly from the server logs in EC /auc channel and exports to this service?


On a different note, I run your app nonstop when I am in EC, but I don't think it works a lot of the time(ever?). Is it only EST timezones that are supported?

[tristantio]

Yea, if you send in timestamps from a timezone behind EST, and it has received auctions with a future dated timestamp it will disregard your entries (to avoid having someone upload an old log and overwrite newer data).

[Pringles]

This tool is great. One suggestion would be to make player names a link, so I can see a historical logs to all of their EC WTS / WTB chats :)

[Exalt]

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've done my best to configure the browser and all relevant extensions but can't see to get ahungry to stop autopopulating the "It seems your ad blocker is interfering with the site functionality.

Please disable your ad blocker to ensure you receive the full realtime logger experience." error

[tristantio]

Can anyone tell me what I'm doing wrong? I've done my best to configure the browser and all relevant extensions but can't see to get ahungry to stop autopopulating the "It seems your ad blocker is interfering with the site functionality.

Please disable your ad blocker to ensure you receive the full realtime logger experience." error

Do you have an AdBlocker installed? (AdBlock Plus, Ghostery etc.) or running traffic through an ad filtering proxy like privoxy/squid?

If so, you need to disable or whitelist http://ahungry.com

[Exalt]

Do you have an AdBlocker installed? (AdBlock Plus, Ghostery etc.) or running traffic through an ad filtering proxy like privoxy/squid?

If so, you need to disable or whitelist http://ahungry.com

Yes, I do have that extension. I went ahead and deleted that AdBlocker extension entirely and I'm getting the same results/error. Any idea? Really frustrating to manually refresh the page and quickly glance down it before it populates the webpage with the error. :(

[Triangle]

site is unusable:

Tried to whitelist site / disable all add ons --> still receive error "It seems your ad blocker is interfering with the site functionality. Please disable your ad blocker to ensure you receive the full realtime logger experience."

Then I open up internet explorer which I do not believe has any add ons whatsoever --> "It seems your ad blocker is interfering with the site functionality.Please disable your ad blocker to ensure you receive the full realtime logger experience."

[Kreylyn]

Working fine for me currently.

Krey

[Deadlyfury]

where has the advanced search gone? has this feature been dropped?

[frammelpie]

I had the same issue and whitelisted the site; it's working fine for me after doing so. Are you using ABP or some other blocker that's 3rd party to block ads?

I also came here to check up on the advanced search functionality, it seems it's been removed?? =( Was there a problem with it working correctly on the site the way it's currently implemented? Or do we have to include those parameters in the search box somehow in order to see the search results? I don't mind having to do that, a link to some instructions on how to do so would be good though, if you can do it that way.

[tristantio]

I did a large code cleanup/site rewrite but haven't got around to re-adding the advanced search forms/functionality yet (sorry).

Should be up sooner or later :)

[Deadlyfury]

All good buddy just wanted to bring it to your attention incase you didn't know :) love the site, lemme know if you want some themeing done! (For free of course)

[jarlerop]

Hey, i want to help upload logs, but nothing happens when i start the .exe. I have the correct log path in the ini, and i have tried running the .exe in xp compability mode, but nothing happens when i start it. I cant find any services or processes running that looks like this program either. Hlap!

[Deadlyfury]

Check your logging is on in EQ? I can't remember the command, also go to the folder and check the log file and if it is actually logging

[jarlerop]

I have enabled logging and it is writing to the file of my character. Maybe i just have to restart eq.

[Deadlyfury]

Also where is EQ installed? If it's in program files you may need to run the logger as admin

[jarlerop]

Thanks, i tried that too. Can you guys see the process or service running in task manager? If so, what name does it have?

[Cage9d9]

Love this thing, thanks a lot! Need more folks uploading though! :)

[Kagukuk]

Very good job thx at you

[Manssaava]

Thanks so much for your work on this! This is fantastic and really makes finding something you want much easier.