I've released an initial version of my new program, which I'm called NG User Search (NGUS). This little beauty combines Google, NG BBS, and NG Portal searches to make finding users easier. It's an early version, so it doesn't have all the bells and whistles that I plan on adding eventually. Just wanted to see what you guys think. You can download it at http://ng.jfsoftware.com/ngus.html
Wow that's a really handy program you made. Great job! I just downloaded it.
Sweet!
Next best thing to an actual NG User search on Newgrounds!
*downloaded*
At 1/6/06 07:17 PM, ShittyKitty wrote: I've released an initial version of my new program, which I'm called NG User Search (NGUS).
ShittyKitty, I dont think ive ever seen you before on the BBS other than yesterday...
But ive heard alot of good things about you. = ). Youve just saved me so much time.
pictures speak a 1,000 words.
Hey, if your this good, you should hang around the programming forum sometimes, I've never seen you there and there aren't many of us as it is =-<
At 1/6/06 08:21 PM, wesdood wrote: wtf? i can't download it....
Scroll down to the bottom of that page, at the very bottom it says 'NG User Search download page', click that link.
Then when that page loads there's a Windows Update you have to download if you haven't got it already.
Finally, at the very bottom of that page it says 'Download Program: ngus.zip (15 KB)'.
Click where it says 'ngus.zip (15 KB)' to download the programme.
At 1/6/06 07:49 PM, deck_head_tottie wrote: I assume this is a better idea than an actual NG based user search because it doesn't put as much strain on the database. That's merely a presumption, though.
Well, I've got the program set to search Google first. A lot of profiles are listed by Google, but there's still quite a few that aren't, and the program resorts to doing BBS and Portal searches.
Oh, and another thing, Wade isn't going to go mental over this, is he?
I don't see why he should. There's nothing automated about this program; in fact, this program does exactly what I would do if I wanted to find someone's profile.
At 1/6/06 07:57 PM, Drake_SI wrote: Hey, if your this good, you should hang around the programming forum sometimes, I've never seen you there and there aren't many of us as it is =-<
Yeah, I've bounced in there a few times a while back. I got my big NG start in this forum, though (namely, my NGLister program), so I've kinda hung around here most of the time.
At 1/6/06 08:28 PM, wesdood wrote: i figured it out
it was my java-script blocker. i jsut had to set it to allow it from that site
Heh, yeah, my site's still running on Javascript. I've just been too lazy to convert it to PHP/SQL. I should probably do that sometime...>_>
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Looks like that could be a pretty useful tool. I doubt I'll have much of a use for it myself but it's a welcome addition.
At 1/6/06 07:17 PM, ShittyKitty wrote: You can download it at http://ng.jfsoftware.com/ngus.html
Did you suddenly get bored? But i can assume that this program is flawless, since it's YOU of all programmers who made it. I will download it....
...juuust as soon as i get back home, i'm crashing at a friends house tonight, and he has no affiliation whatsoever with newgrounds. And as a guest i can fill up his computer with something that has no value for him.
Okay, version 0.2 is out. I've added a built-in experience calculator; click the "View More Information" button to access this feature. Click that button again to show the options/about panels. Download it at http://www.jfsoftware.com/ng/ngus.html
At 1/6/06 10:15 PM, Kam-Ron wrote: I won't use it much if at all, but I guess it will shorten the search for users. I was thinking thought if someone doesn't get the name exactly right it won't show up. Maybe show possible results on the next version.
I would love to do partial searches, but Google and NG are too picky. They only return exact matches, so I'm kinda stuck with what I've got, unfortunately.
This might pose a problem for you...hypens.
I've already tested searching for the names "Super" and "Kam". The first was just me being bored checking names; the second was me verifying my assumption. It seems if you enter in part of the name of some people which is broken by hypens you'll get that person instead of whoever would normally have that alias. You might want to look into that.
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Works great. The added auto-experience calculator is a very nifty feature, and this site really needed a user search.
Oh SK and his many computery doohickies. Nice job, bud.
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At 1/6/06 10:53 PM, Xiivi wrote: This might pose a problem for you...hypens.
Stupid Google went and threw me a curveball. Turns out when you search "Personal Profile: super" (with the quotation marks!), it returns the profile for -super-sandwich-.......so I've fixed that. And I found a little bug that made the options and about disappear if you performed a failed search. And I added Audio Portal search, for finding those people that only submit audio stuff. So yeah, version 0.2.5 is out now. Get it at http://www.jfsoftware.com/ng/ngus.html
Good stuff but I got a question. What order does the searches go by? NG BBS, NG Portal, Audio, and then Google?
At 1/6/06 10:52 PM, ShittyKitty wrote: I would love to do partial searches, but Google and NG are too picky. They only return exact matches, so I'm kinda stuck with what I've got, unfortunately.
Too bad Google doesn't allow wildcard searches. altavista.com supposedly does wildcard searches, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
At 1/7/06 12:13 AM, Wylo wrote: Good stuff but I got a question. What order does the searches go by? NG BBS, NG Portal, Audio, and then Google?
Nope, it goes in the order they appear in the Options list: Google, NG BBS, NG Portal, then NG Audio.
Too bad Google doesn't allow wildcard searches. altavista.com supposedly does wildcard searches, but it doesn't seem to work for me.
:-(
Sweet, this kicks the ass of the NG and NG BBS Firefox search extensions and the regular searchbar.
Great job! :D
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Certainly a cool application. I as well don't have much use for it but I might check it out and play around with it a bit.
Also whoever suggested Wade might go apeshit shouldn't worry about it. You'd have to have thousands of people all search at the same time with this program and not return a result through google in order to actually do anything remotely taxing to Newground's database.
Something tells me that won't happen anytime ever.
Niiiiiiiiice i like the new level up predictor feature.
What else do you have lined up for this SK?
Sweet program. Now you can find friends and the like :D
BtW, there was some user database on NG wasn't it?
At 1/7/06 12:05 PM, DaSadGirl wrote: I downloaded it, but it seems to not work when I try to open it. Can someone help me with it?
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Unzip, run the .exe, type in an alias, press Submit Query. That should do it. Or if it doesn't, give more info plz.
At 1/7/06 08:33 AM, Tom_s00 wrote: Niiiiiiiiice i like the new level up predictor feature.
What else do you have lined up for this SK?
Well, I'll have to rework that experience calculator, for one. I don't really like the way I've built it in (I was originally planning on adding a VP calculator too, but the numbers get quite complicated for predicting future VP). Also, I'm thinking of making the program track statistics over time; each time you pull up a person's profile, it'll store the current numbers and show change over time.
The "View More Information" functionality doesn't work for me, BTW. When I search for any user, the tool reports the wrong number of XP - for myself, I get "5" (instead of 4730, currently), for pimp, I get 22, for WadeFulp, I get 9, and so on - in other words, about 1/1000th of the actual value.
To make a guess, could this be because I'm not using an English version of windows? The meaning of "," and "." in number is switched around, here, compared to how it's handled in English; in other words, you'd write "four thousand and one fifth" as "4.005,2" instead of "4,005.2", so my assumption is that the program parses things like "4,730" on the info page as "four dot seven three" instead of "four thousand seven hundred and thirty".
The solution would be to hardcode it to always use ",", as that's what NG uses. :) It'd be nice to see this in the next version...
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Awesome, only one problem I noticed:
searched main account (this one), checked "Desired Level" and it worked fine, but then checked alt account (level 1), and "Desired Level" kept increasing only by 50 exp - even after level 9 where that ceases, so for level 29 it was only like 120 days or so. Might want to check that out - into <level 9 accounts.
Anyway great stuff, good job.
Okay, I've made a few changes and released version 0.3. I fixed a few experience calculator problems, fixed the kill switch, added a Reset button (in case the kill switch doesn't work right and your NG search options are disabled, hit Reset to reset them), fixed the profile puller, and added some links to the More Information section. Get it at http://www.jfsoftware.com/ng/ngus.html
At 1/7/06 06:35 PM, schneelocke wrote: The "View More Information" functionality doesn't work for me, BTW. When I search for any user, the tool reports the wrong number of XP - for myself, I get "5" (instead of 4730, currently), for pimp, I get 22, for WadeFulp, I get 9, and so on - in other words, about 1/1000th of the actual value.
To make a guess, could this be because I'm not using an English version of windows? The meaning of "," and "." in number is switched around, here, compared to how it's handled in English; in other words, you'd write "four thousand and one fifth" as "4.005,2" instead of "4,005.2", so my assumption is that the program parses things like "4,730" on the info page as "four dot seven three" instead of "four thousand seven hundred and thirty".
The solution would be to hardcode it to always use ",", as that's what NG uses. :) It'd be nice to see this in the next version...
You know, I hadn't even thought of that. Shoot, I'll just remove the comma from the thing before I convert it to a number. That'll fix it.
At 1/7/06 07:29 PM, Placebo wrote: Useful, but it doesn't seem to find names that haven't posted on the BBS, at least not often. Most of the names I was curious about belong to innactive users who either haven't desposited for years, or never posted or submitted work to the site. :-S
Sorry dude. I'm making do with the tools I have available. Normally, if I wanted to do something like this, I'd do it NGTL-style: run through every profile and record every name. But I'm not allowed to do that anymore, according to Wade and his pet FBI.
At 1/7/06 08:36 PM, TimHeasman wrote: Awesome, only one problem I noticed:
searched main account (this one), checked "Desired Level" and it worked fine, but then checked alt account (level 1), and "Desired Level" kept increasing only by 50 exp - even after level 9 where that ceases, so for level 29 it was only like 120 days or so. Might want to check that out - into <level 9 accounts.
Anyway great stuff, good job.
Heh, silly me. I switched a couple of variables in the experience calculator. Too many numbers and variables... >_< Anyway, it's fixed now.
At 1/8/06 04:20 AM, ShittyKitty wrote: You know, I hadn't even thought of that. Shoot, I'll just remove the comma from the thing before I convert it to a number. That'll fix it.
Thanks - it works now!
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Hmm... I downloaded it and went to click on the program but this weird text box came up.
At 1/8/06 11:01 AM, MortalExistence wrote: Hmm... I downloaded it and went to click on the program but this weird text box came up.
Sorry. I can't get my fucking PrtScn button to work right >:(.
It said something like this program has made an illegal operation. Press OK to terminate. I can't get into the program.
That is good shit but i still miss the old skool user search. =(
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At 1/8/06 04:14 PM, Les_dawson wrote: I was helping on Newgrounds when some cunt [BLANKED] my [BLANK].
Thanks asshole. Now you've even desecrated my own thread. Why don't you get a fucking life and quit spamming message boards with the same immature crap? Good God, what a fucking n00b.
If any mods see this, check out this guy's post history. It's full of this shit.
