Scratch

Good question. There are two answers.

1. You can embed your project into another website by following these guidelines.

2. This website is powered by the ScratchR Platform which you will be able to download and run it on your own web server.

By the way, do you want to run your own server because of proxy issues in schools?

Thanks a lot for asking!

How might I find out how to extract the name, comments, and thumbnail of games from a .SB file?

I'm writing a page that will automatically find *.sb file and load them as applets.  ( http://stratolab.com/misc/students/lab_spring_07/ ).  Right now I take screenshots manually and add them in as thumbnails.  It's quite tedious.  It looks like a thumbnail is encoded in the .SB file.  Can you give me any hints on how to get that out of the file, or will I have to reverse-engineer it?

-ww

stratolab: right now we do not have an easy way of extracting the thumbnail. The way it is working now is that Scratch sends the thumbnail along with the .sb file at the moment of uploading.

I think you could benefit from hosting the projects on our site and link them from your site. You can have the images and the .sb hosted here or even embed the projects on your page like others have done:
http://scratch.mit.edu/forums/viewtopic.php?id=258

If none of this work for you, I would suggest again to look at hosting a Scratch sharing server in-house. You can configure Scratch so that it uploads to your site not this site.

You need to have a machine with Apache, MySQL and PHP running. Once you have that please e-mail me at andresmh -at- media.mit.edu and I share the code.

I feel good and bad about  this. On one hand is great to see people running our sharing platform (which we call ScratchR), the original intent was to develop it so others will use it. On the other hand, it would be sad not to have your projects on this open website. We believe that an important part of Scratch is to be able to share and learn from others around the world, not just from a small closed community.

I imagine in the future we could implement a synchronization mechanism that would let other sharing servers automatically upload content to this website (scratch.mit.edu).

I would like to know your thoughts on all this.

How might I find out how to extract the name, comments, and thumbnail of games from a .SB file?

I am thinking of throwing together a bit of PHP code to etxract the .sb file info (author, description, save history). Is that something that would be useful to others? It is a quite simple format at the top of the file. Although I suppose it could change in the future, the Scratch save version is stored, so you can determine that easily enough (it did not change between 1.0.0 and 1.0.2 for example.

pkimelma: I think the PHP code will be extremely useful. If you make the PHP code available I would also use it to allow people to upload projects from the website itself. The Scratch .sb file does contain the thumbnail inside.

a url is the address that you type in to go to a website.

scratch.mit.edu and www.google.com are both URLs

Paulmedwal

How would one upload to an external ScratchR site?

eyra

Last edited by AngelEyra (2007-07-25 17:44:29)

AngelEyra, instructions for embedding an applet to your website can be found at http://scratch.mit.edu/pages/embed You still must upload your project to scratch.mit.edu but you can add the applet to your own page...btw, good job adding the text box to the flagging system

Jacobo, go to the page of the project that you want to add, then look at its URL. That is the url that you put in the applet.

Is it possible or leagle to upload a scratch project to google video?

How about a server detection utility?

[blocks]<if><( <{ Server }> <=> www.stratolabs-server.com )>
<say[ Welcome to stratolab's server. ]>
<end>
<if><( <{ Server }> <=> scratch.mit.edu )>
<say[ Welcome to the Scratch web site. ]>
<end>[/blocks]

Last edited by Bingo_324 (2007-08-21 04:10:57)

That is so cool. I hope more people are able to embed projects on their own websites.