PA Review Exporter: Backup your reviews & ratings |
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Modrigue
Prog Reviewer Joined: January 14 2007 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 1127 |
Topic: PA Review Exporter: Backup your reviews & ratings Posted: July 11 2016 at 03:51 |
Hi folks,
I developed a little program that automatically exports all your reviews/ratings in text files and your avatar image on your computer. I called it the "PA Review Exporter". The functioning is very simple:
- Fetch your reviewer ID from your reviewer page (the ID is the last number) For example, my reviewer page is http://www.progarchives.com/ => my reviewer ID is 11816 - Enter your reviewer ID in the interface - Click on "EXPORT"
-> The program will automatically: * Export every review/rating in a specific text file per album * Export all your reviews/ratings in a single general file "_ALL_REVIEWS.txt" * Export your avatar image in file "_AVATAR.jpg" You can get the last version, 1.0, for Windows, here (right-click, save as...): http://www.progarchives.com/forum/uploads/11816/PAReviewExporter.jpg
* Rename "PAReviewExporter.jpg" to "PAReviewExporter.zip", * Be sure to unzip the file first, * Double-click on "PAReviewExporter.exe", * If Windows asks you to confirm the execution, say yes, * All the files will be downloaded in "<your_windows_download_
Please bear in mind that the data fetch speed depends on your internet connection. The program is for Windows only (sorry Mac fans) and only takes ~400 kb. Feel free to write a post in this thread if you encounter an issue or want to suggest a helpful improvement. Any pertinent comment is welcomed.
PS: Special thanks to David (Atavachron), whose Klaus Schulze's reviews helped me to test the robustness of my program to weird characters . PPS: I tried to directly upload the zip file in my personal file manager, but for some reason, it didn't work, that's why I had to do the ".jpg" trick. Edited by Modrigue - July 11 2016 at 13:47 |
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Meltdowner
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 25 2013 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 10232 |
Posted: July 11 2016 at 04:16 |
Great idea and it seems to work fine I'm just wondering why does it need to get the album's page and not only the review's page. If no important information is needed from that page, it would be considerably faster.
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Modrigue
Prog Reviewer Joined: January 14 2007 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 1127 |
Posted: July 11 2016 at 04:24 |
I fully agree.
The only reason the program needs the album page is to retrieve the release year, not displayed on the review page. BTW, maybe should it be a good idea to display the year on the review page too, like on MMA and JA?
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Meltdowner
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: June 25 2013 Location: Portugal Status: Offline Points: 10232 |
Posted: July 11 2016 at 04:32 |
Oh, I didn't notice it doesn't have the year in it. If the other two sites show the year, I think it's a good suggestion.
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Rivertree
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator / Band Submissions Joined: March 22 2006 Location: Germany Status: Offline Points: 17628 |
Posted: July 11 2016 at 14:57 |
HtmlAgilityPack is a library written by yourself it seems ... excellent
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Modrigue
Prog Reviewer Joined: January 14 2007 Location: France Status: Offline Points: 1127 |
Posted: July 11 2016 at 15:06 |
I regret but... nope I just used the library. |
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kenethlevine
Special Collaborator Prog-Folk Team Joined: December 06 2006 Location: New England Status: Offline Points: 8952 |
Posted: July 11 2016 at 21:08 |
I was just asking about this a few months ago, and, when nobody answered, not even M@x, I went and manually exported all my reviews. Thanks for doing this!
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Ivan_Melgar_M
Special Collaborator Honorary Collaborator Joined: April 27 2004 Location: Peru Status: Offline Points: 19535 |
Posted: July 11 2016 at 21:27 |
Well, I write them on Word and keep a copy.
Iván
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kenethlevine
Special Collaborator Prog-Folk Team Joined: December 06 2006 Location: New England Status: Offline Points: 8952 |
Posted: July 12 2016 at 09:17 |
that works too
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