4E Item Parser

[Xorn]

Did you ever figure out an IE overlay addon to get the Source filter to populate correctly? I wish it was possible to force the Parser to use Chrome.

[Xorn]

All finished! Wasn't too bad. Items, Powers, and Creatures could all be filtered to just scrape the Essentials stuff, so the only really big list I had to edit was Feats. Collapsed all the nodes and just went to town clearing them out, then made the index match. After that I took my Monster Vault tokens and scanned them (never punched them out of the cardstock) then made a set of tokens with TokenTool. Finally I edited the token entries for all 305 creatures (since so many of them use the same token). I broke the DM stuff and MM stuff into two different modules though.

Anyway, all finished building my Essentials modules! Thanks again for the amazing utility. I've done a full 4E PHB scrape, 4E DMG scrape, and then I also did individual scrapes for each category as well, just in case the 4E DDI dies sooner rather than later.

[monkinmeditation]

Hi All,

First, a big thank you to Valeros and everyone who has been involved with the parser; it's amazingly useful. I've been having trouble getting the Powers to parse. I tried using the player entries, as well as trying to scrape and parse the powers separately. The scraping seems to go well, but all the powers fail to parse. All of the other entries seemed to work without issue. Has anyone else encountered this issue, and if so, can you share how you fixed it? Thanks!

[Griogre]

I ran the parser last night to check after seeing monkinmeditiation's post and there are a ton of fail to parse entries. I presume 1 for each power. One thing I noticed when I ran it last night, that when gathering powers the number found were a lot more than when I ran it last: i.e. 7 thousand plus vs. 4,600ish (I only parse rulebook powers) and obviously there hasn't been any new rulebooks published since I last ran that module in August.

[monkinmeditation]

Yeah, when I scraped all of the powers, I got something like 9,380 entries, and every single one of them failed to parse. All of the other categories (Player Entries and DM Entries) seemed to work just fine otherwise and I was able to load the modules without incident. I have two copies of the powers .txt files (if that matters).

Thanks, Griogre for checking on this.

[valeros]

Sorry powers stopped working. Unfortunately, I have already let my DDI subscription lapse since there did not seem to be any updates. So there is not a good way for me to troubleshoot the problem. The parser does rely heavily on the HTML, so if that changed, it could cause a problem. Also, the parser was written for Windows 7. If you are running Windows 8 and a newer Internet Explorer, it is unlikely but possible that is the cause.

[monkinmeditation]

Hi Valeros. Thanks for replying. I am using Windows 7, for what it's worth. Being respectful of your time, do you have any suggestions for what I might be able to do? My DDI subscription lasts for another 2 weeks or so.

Thanks again.

[valeros]

If you email me the powers txt file (or 3+ powers copied out of the file), I will see if I can quickly fix the issue. Since all powers are failing, hopefully there is a single easy fix.

[Griogre]

I'm running Win7 as well. Hopefully its an easy fix.

[monkinmeditation]

Hi Valeros,

Thank you very much for your kind offer to help. I'll send you the file as soon as I get back to my computer.

If you email me the powers txt file (or 3+ powers copied out of the file), I will see if I can quickly fix the issue. Since all powers are failing, hopefully there is a single easy fix.