nightomare

Hello! If you don't know already, I've made and use a program I call Daytrader to (infrequently!) scrape people's cardsites and show me what I can trade them and for what. If you have access to your server logs and see some requests with a "Deno" user agent, that's me! I have implemented "fetchers" for 43 players, including those covered by a generic one for neotcg users (that didn't customize their readLogs() function).

I posting this because I have hit a wall. I'm trying to add support to Daytrader for using kittyong's card sorter (AKA the "hahaveryfunny" sorter) that most if not all etcg players use. However, this sorter's output is formatted via br tags, not p, div, or span tags. For technical reasons, this makes it an absolute nightmare for me to extract data from. After looking through a bunch of people's cardsites, thanks to subtle differences between them I concluded there is no way I can make a general solution for this... I would have to hand-roll things manually for every single player.

Not wanting to go through all that work, I am offering a bounty to all etcg users who don't have a needed cards page:

1. Add a needed cards page to your cardsite (ideally one that uses textareas, but I can work with anything that doesn't rely on br), OR
2. Implement the "fix" below to your card sorter.

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As a reward, I will give you 8 cards out of my trade pile that you desire the most (according to your sorter) on a first come, first serve basis. If I don't have 8 cards you want, I'll fill the rest with crayons.