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Originally Posted by Frug
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I'm one of the majority auction data uploaders. I looked at my logs and it looks like you put stats in before the item. Like this:
[Mon Dec 09 23:52:15 2019] Faerie auctions, 'WTS Rings: +2 Wis and +2 Int, 4p ea or 7p pair. +2 Str, 5p ea or 9p pair. +6 Wis, Platinum Jasper Ring 275p. +4 Int, Platinum Rose Engagement Ring 275p. +4 Str, Platinum Amber Ring 275p (or 525p a pair on platinum rings)'
I'm not sure if that's being parsed correctly or not (quite honestly, it's a lot of numbers for ME as a human to parse). People generally know the stats of the thing they want, so a way more common way is to just list:
WTS Platinum Rose Engagement Ring 275p (etc)
And of course link the item so people can click if they want to know the stats of it. Parsers will often look for "WTS", followed somewhere by "<item> <price>, <item> <price>, ..."
FWIW, I wrote my own parser and it looks for stuff like that. It IS catching some of your stuff correctly (none of my code manipulates price; it simply drops the price if it can't figure it out). For example:
https://unixgeek.com/prices-P1999Tea...asperRing.html |
Thank you - this is actually my new hotkey attempting to fix the problem. I make most things to order so I was trying to find a good way to list the stats (for those who don't know) without linking, but also have the price parse correctly.
(I was also just listing just stats for a while - but then I feel like since the wiki is listing old errors I need new information to show that those numbers aren't normal. I'm in a trap lol)