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#1 2011-08-26 05:59:10
Bingo Project Detector
With the two million projects coming up soon, I made myself a little app that tells me when new projects are uploaded. This also made me realize how quickly our community makes Scratch a bigger place!
This simple project is made in Bingo 1.3.0 (which is absolutely required to run the app, download here) due to needing the URL blocks to connect with the internet.
The project's interface includes
- The number of projects uploaded to the Scratch website;
- How long ago the last project was uploaded;
- A link to the latest project; and
- An option to manually update the latest project's ID (for future use, so that it doesn't have to check through all projects since ID 1997585).
It also pops when a new project is uploaded. Of course, you can disable this any time by dragging out the pop block since the project's open source!
You can download it here!
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#2 2011-08-26 06:11:12
Re: Bingo Project Detector
I made one of these in Panther a while ago. IDK if your method is better but I was reading the number of projects from the front page stats block and it rarely updated.
Does your project check the scratcher project id's until it hits a 404 error and then waits there until it's not a 404 anymore?
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#3 2011-08-26 06:18:06
Re: Bingo Project Detector
sparks wrote:
I made one of these in Panther a while ago. IDK if your method is better but I was reading the number of projects from the front page stats block and it rarely updated.
Does your project check the scratcher project id's until it hits a 404 error and then waits there until it's not a 404 anymore?
Precisely 
It uses the API.
The good thing is also that it doesn't give any views to projects, since most of the time it hits a 404 page. Now, if you'll excuse me, it popped. 
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#4 2011-08-26 06:28:11
Re: Bingo Project Detector
Your post counter, by the way. Have you linked it to an old post of yours? I can't find any other way to do it for my forum API but it isn't ideal as users will have to link one of their posts every time to get it to work.
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#5 2011-08-26 06:49:45
Re: Bingo Project Detector
sparks wrote:
Your post counter, by the way. Have you linked it to an old post of yours? I can't find any other way to do it for my forum API but it isn't ideal as users will have to link one of their posts every time to get it to work.
Yup I have. There's absolutely no other way to do that.
Now that seemed a bit negative 
Last edited by LS97 (2011-08-26 06:50:06)
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#7 2011-08-26 16:36:49
Re: Bingo Project Detector
Exactly 1598 projects 'till the big milestone!
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#8 2011-08-26 17:42:21
- meowmeow55
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2008-12-24
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Bingo Project Detector
You could always mod my EXE creator to work with Bingo 
Yawn.
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#9 2011-08-27 04:39:13
Re: Bingo Project Detector
meowmeow55 wrote:
You could always mod my EXE creator to work with Bingo
I don't have to go asking for people to do my work. I am perfectly capable of making it myself. (And I already did, ages ago.)
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#10 2011-08-27 05:15:27
- WindowsExplorer
- Scratcher
- Registered: 2011-02-25
- Posts: 1000+
Re: Bingo Project Detector
the detector doesn't work
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#11 2011-08-27 06:16:56
Re: Bingo Project Detector
WindowsExplorer wrote:
the detector doesn't work
You'll have to manually update the project ID to 1999254 before running it -- it stops at deleted projects.
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