Character Converter for D&D Beyond

[Jaradakar]

Interesting.

If you look at the spells, such as Bane, it has a <C> after it.

What's happening is that the XML parser is seeing that as a tag without a closing tag.

I've never seen this on my own character sheets, do you know what that means?


Dave

Is that for Maakeen? He's a Paladain of Vengance and those are spells he's being granted by his "Class".

[dberkompas]

That's one of the problems with scraping a PDF, nothing is tied together. In Fantasy Grounds, weapons are tied into the Inventory, and even though it could be done with a whole lot of extra work, I'm not sure I'm willing to do that until Curse comes out with a valid API (which has been promised for quite some time).


I'm trying to fix the <C> issue, as that's probably the easiest to fix.

All my code is freely available, I'll update my Git repo and post here when I'm done.


Dave

[dberkompas]

I've uploaded a fix for the <C> in spell names, but spells are still B.D.N.W.W. for the most part. Until I find the error in asynchronous parsing, or the API is released, there's no ETA.


Dave

[dberkompas]

Files have been checked into GIT.

https://github.com/BoomerET/DDB2FG


Dave

[Jaradakar]

So I posted on DND Beyond forums asking about the status of a API and while I did not get an official response, I did get a response from a developer who was working on converting to roll20.

https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/dun...aracter-import

(Here is my starting thread: https://www.dndbeyond.com/forums/d-d...-characters-in)

Maybe this can help you Dave?

[dberkompas]

Thanks for the info. I'm going to take a look and see how feasible this is. It certainly looks promising.

Parsing JSON is a whole lot easier than parsing a PDF.


Dave

[dberkompas]

Well, that file is HUGE.

I'm trying something simple, like stats.

The status section just has the base, and I'm having a problem finding the final value, jeesh.


Dave

[dberkompas]

Well heck, his code is javascript, lots of stuff to copy/paste, why re-invent the wheel.


Dave

[Gix]

It's on GitHub, so be sure to contribute any fixes back for his review

[tmilktoast]

Hello! This converter has worked pretty well for me in large part. Although, I've had to manually edit some of the resulting XML files to get them to import into FG (In each case due to something it didn't like about custom items I created in D&D Beyond).

I do have one character in the campaign that the converter does not like at all, however. The site just says "Something went wrong,.. etc". Is there any way to troubleshoot it?