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Old 12-12-2019, 10:45 AM
Frug Frug is offline
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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
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Last edited by Frug; 12-12-2019 at 10:59 AM..