I'm sitting down in front of a piece of code which
was an idea that I
now don't know what to do or how to implement anymore. It was an image
notification bot in which would go through several of the densely populated
no source / no copyright categories and go off to notify the user.
Unfortunately, the upload logs are not consistant, and a database needs to
be rebuilt if I were not to query the information directly from the database.
Well, when I originally made the suggestion, I was thinking that it would be easy enough
to simply scrape the HTML of the image description page to get the username of the
original uploader. Which would be less efficient than doing a SQL query directly, but
would have the benefit of working Right Now.
-B.