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kayybee · 2012-01-28 18:52:20

I'm just wondering if it's possible to get the post count of any user.

and if it is, could you please make one? pretty please?

PullJosh · 2012-02-01 17:02:14

I was wondering if you could make one that says the name of your newest project. If you could, I would love it. cool

sparks · 2012-02-01 18:41:24

PullJosh wrote:
I was wondering if you could make one that says the name of your newest project. If you could, I would love it.

Yup! It's even demonstrated in the first post! Your newest project is . You second newest is

just put this into an image tag:

http://www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=projects&type=newest&return=text&user=pullJosh&num=1

Last edited by sparks (2012-02-01 18:42:01)

iampie · 2012-02-02 08:28:31

Hey, is there an API for a random piece of text?

sparks · 2012-02-02 14:19:00

You'll need to use tinyurl for that one since you would be combining two parts of the api.

Code:

http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=text&string=this_API

which gives you text like so:

and the random image API:

Code:

http://www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=random&return=image&link1=LINK1&link2=LINK2&link3=LINK3

This can take the urls of up to 10 images and display randomly. So all you need to do is tinyurl the text api for each image, then put the tinyurls into the random image API.

random images are documented here

iampie · 2012-02-07 10:55:47

...What? I'm not real techie, sorry... I just want the siggy to say something different every time you look at it.

sparks · 2012-02-07 13:20:22

iampie wrote:
...What? I'm not real techie, sorry... I just want the siggy to say something different every time you look at it.

Okay, we how about you make some images with text in them, all the ones you want to be in the sig, then post the links to them all here and I will make the random API work for you smile

iampie · 2012-02-08 08:34:17

sparks wrote:
iampie wrote:
...What? I'm not real techie, sorry... I just want the siggy to say something different every time you look at it.
Okay, we how about you make some images with text in them, all the ones you want to be in the sig, then post the links to them all here and I will make the random API work for you

Kk!

Edit: lol that's something you're gonna wanna fix!

Last edited by iampie (2012-02-08 08:35:23)

technoboy10 · 2012-02-08 09:44:01

Quick question - Is there an online image API for the TBGs?

sparks · 2012-02-08 10:30:31

Yes.

At the very bottom of the online/offline API parameters post, you'll see that all you need to do is add

Code:

target=all

to include TBG status

or

Code:

target=tbg

to only look at status in the tbg forum!

for example:

Code:

blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?user=sparks&action=onlineStatus&target=tbg

will show my online status in the tbg forum area only. replace my name with yours and put it in an img tag to use it smile You can also use the status to display custom text or images (such as the one in my sig), it's all documented in the linked post smile

Last edited by sparks (2012-02-08 10:35:34)

technoboy10 · 2012-02-08 10:54:01

Cool, thanks!

PullJosh · 2012-02-10 07:15:08

sparks wrote:
PullJosh wrote:
I was wondering if you could make one that says the name of your newest project. If you could, I would love it.
Yup! It's even demonstrated in the first post! Your newest project is http://www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php? … &num=1. You second newest is http://www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php? … &num=2

just put this into an image tag:

http://www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=projects&type=newest&return=text&user=pullJosh&num=1

Thanks!

Squawkers13 · 2012-02-15 18:51:15

Squawkers13 newest project link does not work!

Last edited by Squawkers13 (2012-02-19 12:51:53)

iampie · 2012-02-15 22:00:08

sparks wrote:
iampie wrote:
...What? I'm not real techie, sorry... I just want the siggy to say something different every time you look at it.
Okay, we how about you make some images with text in them, all the ones you want to be in the sig, then post the links to them all here and I will make the random API work for you

Here you go... all the images, in very good and working (I tested them) links.

Tineh Urlz wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/7wt4ffm

http://tinyurl.com/7ycyryb

http://tinyurl.com/88f4fqg

http://tinyurl.com/83prjec

http://tinyurl.com/7t7nxrv

http://tinyurl.com/844dvxx

http://tinyurl.com/88rht6t

http://tinyurl.com/6vv3l9n

Just give me the straight-up code.

veggieman001 · 2012-02-15 22:07:16

kayybee wrote:
I'm just wondering if it's possible to get the post count of any user.

and if it is, could you please make one? pretty please?

This would be really useful now.

sparks · 2012-02-16 05:48:51

Squawkers13 wrote:
Squawkers13 newest project link does not work!
see sig.

Squawkers13, for some reason, your username doesn't work with API's. Both the block library login system and my self-updating-images-and-links-in-posts use an API to check usernames but yours isn't working hmm I have no idea why but I will try to find out.

majormax · 2012-02-17 06:45:03

veggieman001 wrote:
kayybee wrote:
I'm just wondering if it's possible to get the post count of any user.

and if it is, could you please make one? pretty please?
This would be really useful now.

So sparks can you make this?

TRocket · 2012-02-17 07:04:05

majormax wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
kayybee wrote:
I'm just wondering if it's possible to get the post count of any user.

and if it is, could you please make one? pretty please?
This would be really useful now.
So sparks can you make this?

chances are it would be possible (by crawling the forums) but this would tell you your actual number of posts(not including deleted posts)

scimonster · 2012-02-17 07:14:30

TRocket wrote:
majormax wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:

This would be really useful now.
So sparks can you make this?
chances are it would be possible (by crawling the forums) but this would tell you your actual number of posts(not including deleted posts)

And chances are, that with over a million posts, that would take days. ^^

TRocket · 2012-02-17 07:21:10

scimonster wrote:
TRocket wrote:
majormax wrote:

So sparks can you make this?
chances are it would be possible (by crawling the forums) but this would tell you your actual number of posts(not including deleted posts)
And chances are, that with over a million posts, that would take days. ^^

and a mega cpu usage ban!

sparks · 2012-02-17 11:48:13

majormax wrote:
veggieman001 wrote:
kayybee wrote:
I'm just wondering if it's possible to get the post count of any user.

and if it is, could you please make one? pretty please?
This would be really useful now.
So sparks can you make this?

When did this stupid >1000 thing appear on here? I only noticed it yesterday! And sadly no, there is no API for it so I can't find it in any way now that posts don't display the actual number. You could request the API be added to the Scratch Team though!

sparks · 2012-02-17 11:54:14

iampie wrote:
sparks wrote:
iampie wrote:
...What? I'm not real techie, sorry... I just want the siggy to say something different every time you look at it.
Okay, we how about you make some images with text in them, all the ones you want to be in the sig, then post the links to them all here and I will make the random API work for you
Here you go... all the images, in very good and working (I tested them) links.

Tineh Urlz wrote:
http://tinyurl.com/7wt4ffm

http://tinyurl.com/7ycyryb

http://tinyurl.com/88f4fqg

http://tinyurl.com/83prjec

http://tinyurl.com/7t7nxrv

http://tinyurl.com/844dvxx

http://tinyurl.com/88rht6t

http://tinyurl.com/6vv3l9n
Just give me the straight-up code.

[img]www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=random&return=image&link1=http://tinyurl.com/7ycyryb&link2=http://tinyurl.com/88f4fqg&link3=http://tinyurl.com/83prjec&link4=http://tinyurl.com/7t7nxrv&link5=http://tinyurl.com/844dvxx&link6=http://tinyurl.com/88rht6t[/img]

Code:

www.blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=random&return=image&link1=http://tinyurl.com/7ycyryb&link2=http://tinyurl.com/88f4fqg&link3=http://tinyurl.com/83prjec&link4=http://tinyurl.com/7t7nxrv&link5=http://tinyurl.com/844dvxx&link6=http://tinyurl.com/88rht6t

Put that inside img tags. I have no idea how well it will work with animated images, I've never tried smile

EDIT: No. I'm afraid it doesn't seem to work with animations, I'm sorry hmm

Last edited by sparks (2012-02-17 11:55:38)

technoboy10 · 2012-02-17 13:05:37

I've made a fairly complicated sig and it doesn't seem to work. Here's the code.

Code:

[img]http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?user=technoboy10&action=onlineStatus&online=http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/online.u5WA.png&offline=http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=random&return=image&link1=http://blocks.scratchr.org/offline.gif&link2=http://blocks.scratchr.org/offlineSquare.gif[/img]

Thanks!

sparks · 2012-02-17 13:10:41

technoboy10 wrote:

I've made a fairly complicated sig and it doesn't seem to work. Here's the code.

Code:

[url]http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?user=technoboy10&action=onlineStatus&online=http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/online.u5WA.png&offline=http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=random&return=image&link1=http://blocks.scratchr.org/offline.gif&link2=http://blocks.scratchr.org/offlineSquare.gif[/url]

Thanks!

Looks pretty cool, technoboy!

The reason why it isn't working is that the API isn't nestable (You can't insert the API into part of the API) because of how PHP interprets URL data. However, there is a way around this! get the part of the API responsible for the random image and turn it into a tinyurl, then insert that into the outer API like so:

Turn...

http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?action=random&return=image&link1=http://blocks.scratchr.org/offline.gif&link2=http://blocks.scratchr.org/offlineSquare.gif

...into a tinyurl.

then put

http://blocks.scratchr.org/API.php?user=technoboy10&action=onlineStatus&online=http://b.quizlet.com/a/i/online.u5WA.png&offline=YOURTINYURL

Done!

(To make everything smaller, you can even tinyurl that second tinyurl!)

Last edited by sparks (2012-02-17 13:11:49)

technoboy10 · 2012-02-17 15:41:51

Ok, thanks. I can just do goo.gl for this as well, right? Also, can I use the 'target' parameter with it?

Last edited by technoboy10 (2012-02-17 15:43:39)

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