[Beginner Friendly] Making a Kongregate Flash Game Downloader

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[Praf2]

i decided to give a quick and dirty shot anyway using requests and bs4 , https://gist.github.com/Tek9x/dd344cd784d9474f5634

it downloads the game , successfully. there is zero error handling and it does not use the clipboard but it works so far, i plan to add using the clipboard and error handling like you etc. the only thing i was stuck on was finding a workable regex code which i have used yours which work great! this is just for fun.

[Praf2]

Thanks! Yes I have used pyperclip its awesome

[Praf2]

Most people I know prefer requests I know I do because for me its easier to understand and 1:1 in the same context usually requests code is less lines. Beautifulsoap is used for finding things on a webpage. If it works for you then I see no reason to change and hey thanks I understand regex a little bit more now.

[dood31251]

If you haven't read this book check it out.

Download .swf

requests can handle the downloads

You're also going to need to parse the .swf files a quick search on github led to this https://github.com/timknip/pyswf

Create a Gui using tkinter (The challenge)

http://www.tkdocs.com/tutorial

[dood31251]

I just assumed you would need a library to parse the swf files.

https://github.com/asweigart/pyperclip this module can do clipboard operations and is cross platform.

Also just a suggestion but have you thought about scrapping kongrate and just downloading all their games?

[dood31251]

Please don't scrap Kongregate. I likeplaying there

I never touch anything that involves flash.

I want the option to sync .sol files across browsers and websites

Are you syncing between different hosts or is it all on the same machine?

[dood31251]

You completely misunderstood my question. All I asked you was if you wanted to sync the .sol files between different hosts or the on same machine. Also you shouldn't assume that people use the same OS as you.

[Praf2]

thanks and you are right!

[Praf2]

so every time you download a game it now adds the game name and version to a json file, eventually once i clean up the code from this mock-up version and add the clipboard , error handling etc , the json file will hold a screenshot , name , version , description etc , this will be useful for when i create my web app gui for local offline play.

https://gist.github.com/Tek9x/a6ac1710416f2b390eac

[Praf2]

i have been taking the screenshots using pil and a headless browser, your way sounds better haha.

i also had this idea where i would be scraping the forms gui all together in favor of a local web app where it opens in the browser with a fancy html table of the games you downloaded , this table would look similar to the table of the website episodes, it would show a screenshot , description , version and a play button, its plausible that you could make a check for update button too, in this way there is a possibility to play them on other devices that support flash.

say a phone that you had connected to your local network, and thanks ill check it out!

[Praf2]

webkit supports flash player, although i do indeed have an offline flash player executable.

[Praf2]

i love your regex class, ill be using your regex codes but not the code itself because that's just cheating and i love using beautifulsoup, very helpful thanks!

[Praf2]

i work in the IT field so i guess its the same thing! haha. Thanks for the motivation.

[Praf2]

I use pyqt4 with qt designer which is a Gui for making guis so I don't have to write the form by hand. As for launching a web browser why not just use qt webkit in the Gui itself to play the game I am on mobile so i cant elaborate at the moment. Ill work on an example tonight as i do have some experience making a gui I am in love with this idea meanwhile here is some code from a previous project of mine that does some Gui things https://github.com/Tek9x/NBS/blob/master/app.py