New Export Groups Function

[micha69]

Hello Rootjazz,

first let me say a big thank U that you have implemented my most wanted feature!
Thats excactly how I could use it. Wrote could cause atm it exports only the headlines
Name,Description,URL,#Users,#Tracks,Moderated....nothing else except 600 empty lines....
but I'm shure this is only a minor problem,
can't wait for the next update

...made some more testing and it seems it makes as many empty lines as search entries.
Tried techno and get ~ 1600 empty lines.

[martin@rootjazz]

oops, 600 empty lines isn't very useful. Loading up the code now. Will confirm and update shortly.

[martin@rootjazz]

Fixed,tested and confirmed. Update be out later today. Will update here when ready

[micha69]

wow that's great news

cheers my friend ...have to get a beer first

micha

[martin@rootjazz]

http://soundcloudmanager.com/updatetesting.html

[micha69]

Rootjazz, you're the best!

Always working when I'm sleeping

And yes it worked well now...still have to figure out how I get the list into open office to get it sorted
(what db format do u use?)
but its a charm to scrape the links from the filez with notepad++

best wishes

michael

[martin@rootjazz]

I would have thought you just save the file as a .csv extension then import it into open office as it is a basic comma separated db file.


You may have to specify it is comma ',' separated and not tab \t separated as that may be the default for open office IIRC

[micha69]

thx, yes that's how I did it ... problem is it misses the commas like between Number of members/moderated or there are commas in the groupname what makes a huge list.
I'll have to clean with np++ first and put commas on the right places then it should work.

thx again for a very cool feature...
no more waiting till a site with groups opens and much more info in the db.
A real Timesaver!


...Tried a while now ...commas are a real problem
maybe its better to scrape the urls only or use * or anything else instead of commas as seperator.

[martin@rootjazz]

Why exactly are commas a problem?

The line is formatted wrong? The program cannot read it?

I mean, the delimiter can be a comma, it is called a CSV (comma separated variable) after all.

If you have a problem file, email it to be and I can look into why it will not import into your db program

[micha69]

show you a typical line:
http://soundcloud.com/groups/chill-out-crowdFor those who enjoy Chillout,Ambient,Downtempo Music =)768630504false
or
http://soundcloud.com/groups/atmospheric-ambientLush Dark ambient, Soundscapes, Drones, you name it! If it's ambient music you want, it's ambient music you get!529116262false

...it separated wrong when I open in np or open office calc...
makes a new calc field for every comma in the line...maybe I'm too dumb for databases but maybe there is a secret knob hat I missed that switched on your separations instead of the commas in the text.