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Preparing for an SP

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Dear all:
One of the reasons I felt a new forum was needed was because of our SP's. I felt that other platforms would not be able to handle them.
Well, this one is not so straightforward either.
It will seem to me that initially, our number of participants will be low; just the regular TAT1.0 crowd, sans those people that only join us during slams. But if this site catches on, we will need automation.
Two solutions have been proposed:
Woody has joined us and in TAT1.0 he did mention the possibility of making a GOOGLE FORM or spreadsheeet and we would all be directed there in a link, and fill in our choice. That one seems easy enough, but one sheet would be needed every day. Or, as it is basically Excell, one sheet, two tabs (ATP/WTA) and days in columns. But that assumes that everybody here knows how to use Excel. I gather we most do, but assumptions like that usually lead to disaster.

James has also joined us. He was the creator of the TAT1.0 parser, and has posted that it is not so easy to implement. Some php and sqlite capabilities, in our server, are needed. The coding will take a while, but of course, as for preferable solutions, it would work the best.
To James: I contacted the host. PHP and SQLITE are supported, PERL is not. And they do have SSH and SFTP, which do come with our package.

So, that is where we stand. If there are other solutions, I would love to hear them. The threads cannot be EXPORTED in any convenient data package, although I am looking into that.
I would, initially, lean to Woody's solution, until James can work out the parser (with my help, which in this case will be limited).

Your thoughts, please.
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Re: Preparing for an SP

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I am willing to try whatever folks can make work. I'm proficient in user applications like Excel, but I haven't done any coding since college (and no one codes in those languages anymore). Just happy to have this option and willing to be patient as we all learn together.
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There are pre-existing python scripts for phpbb forum scrapers. This looks like it would probably work (https://github.com/h2non/bbscraper). So the question becomes if python is supported on the server (or if we can install it).
If it's Linux it should be there already.
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James, the site does not support python. I would have to go full VPS in an independent (non-shared) site.
I will keep looking into it.
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For now, Woody's option might be the go-to until James works his magic.
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