Author Topic: Search users by BL_ID (Read 1577 times)

it would theoretically be simple enough to put together a script that simple goes through all pages starting at "forum.blockland.us/index.php?action=profile;u=" and then simply reads the BL_ID field (albeit inefficient since it would probably have to load all the pages as a third party and not as an actual thing on their server), but frankly i'm too lazy and not-caffeinated to pull it off
wait, kalphiter, you just put together a theoretical php script to pull your deleted posts, right? get to work, son

Zeblote · July 30, 2013, 03:00:43 AM

Quote from: .::Taboo::. on July 30, 2013, 02:57:50 AM

it would theoretically be simple enough to put together a script that simple goes through all pages starting at "forum.blockland.us/index.php?action=profile;u=" and then simply reads the BL_ID field (albeit inefficient since it would probably have to load all the pages as a third party and not as an actual thing on their server), but frankly i'm too lazy and not-caffeinated to pull it off
wait, kalphiter, you just put together a theoretical php script to pull your deleted posts, right? get to work, son

Be sure to run it slowly or it might think of your script as a dos attack and block you.

Kalphiter� · July 30, 2013, 03:05:48 AM

Quote from: .::Taboo::. on July 30, 2013, 02:57:50 AM

"forum.blockland.us/index.php?action=profile;u=" and then simply reads the BL_ID field

I don't think you realized that this is exactly what I did...

Quote from: Zeblote on July 30, 2013, 03:00:43 AM

Be sure to run it slowly or it might think of your script as a dos attack and block you.

It only needs to be run every once in a while because it's safe to assume that many of the older profiles will remain unchanged. Loading a profile takes a bit to search but is finished once the profile is found; the data is all in one spot. It's nothing compared to the amount of jumping it takes to display 15 non-consecutive (but ordered) posts at once.

.::Taboo::. · July 30, 2013, 04:59:21 AM

welp
if you already have all that data, wouldn't it be easy to simply pop it all into a table somewhere on the web

Pacnet2012� · July 30, 2013, 09:50:40 AM

I made a php script and I'm getting there ...

Okay I am delaying queries by 2 seconds and currently collecting data

It collects data at a speed of 30 users per minute so that will take 55.5 hours. The -1 IDs take up time for nothing as well.

Demian · July 30, 2013, 10:00:19 AM

Quote from: Pacnet2012� on July 30, 2013, 09:50:40 AM

I made a php script and I'm getting there ...

Your formatting is really weird. Why is there so much whitespace?

Pacnet2012� · July 30, 2013, 10:04:51 AM

Quote from: Demian on July 30, 2013, 10:00:19 AM

Your formatting is really weird. Why is there so much whitespace?

I first stripped the php tags from the user profile so it ended up like that but trying to trim() the whitespace out of the string is not really doing anything. I figure if I put the text file on a website people can search the webpage (such as Ctrl + F or Command + F)
or I might make something on the website to search and return a result for you..

Kalphiter� · July 30, 2013, 01:13:34 PM

Quote from: Demian on July 30, 2013, 10:00:19 AM

Your formatting is really weird. Why is there so much whitespace?

He is also throwing out all the other data. If he ever wants to use other data, he'll have to grab it again.

2 seconds is completely unnecessary.