Any programmers up for a challenge for downloads?
Anyone interseted in creating a gizmo to monitor WC downloads?
Sunday, November 12, 2006 by mauve | Discussion: Requests
Hey everyone, especially programmers.
I, as am sure many others, are wanting to know how many downloads my skins are getting, without the hassle of loading up my browser then navigating to the page and so forth.
I was interested to see if anyone would be able to create a docklet or gadget etc. to alert the user when someone has downloaded a skin etc, much like how msn pops that window up when you get an email or someone comes online, and mabye if your computer is off, when you come back on it would say however many downloads you got while you were away.
I'm not sure how to do it but i'm damn sure it'd be popular.
Please contact me if you are brave enough to tackle it
Hall Dude
I, as am sure many others, are wanting to know how many downloads my skins are getting, without the hassle of loading up my browser then navigating to the page and so forth.
I was interested to see if anyone would be able to create a docklet or gadget etc. to alert the user when someone has downloaded a skin etc, much like how msn pops that window up when you get an email or someone comes online, and mabye if your computer is off, when you come back on it would say however many downloads you got while you were away.
I'm not sure how to do it but i'm damn sure it'd be popular.
Please contact me if you are brave enough to tackle it
Hall Dude
mauve
Reply #2 Sunday, November 12, 2006 8:06 PM
Reply #2 Sunday, November 12, 2006 8:06 PM
Sounds complicated. Mabye it would be something to look into, you know, with the new website coming soon... It could be like a new feature, that is free 
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Reply #1 Sunday, November 12, 2006 6:50 PM
What *could* be done, is a gadget that takes a shot of the MySkins page, does periodic checks and then runs a diff between the two, and notes any differences, somehow parsing out which skin has changed (probably by reading out the line on the page).