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Starcraft 2 Twitter Updater: Learning Python

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CTangent
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States125 Posts
June 25 2012 11:13 GMT
#1
Hey Teamliquid! It's been a little while since I wrote a blog, and I've never written one that wasn't about Starcraft itself, so this will be new territory for me. Being a Computer Science major, I have decided to learn the Python programming language. I have a background in C and Java (with Java being my "native" language, so to speak, the one that I go to first if I have a choice). I am a somewhat skilled programmer in both Java and C, but I decided to branch out into the wonderful world of Python.

In order to learn Python, I've come up with an idea for a program just for fun. It will run in the background whenever the user plays starcraft 2, and will do the following things:

1) Whenever a new file is added into the "Unsaved" replay directory, I will copy it and place it into a new folder, altering the filename to be more descriptive.

2) Whenever this new folder reaches a certain number of replays, I will stop adding replays to it and create a different folder. (Replay pack generation)

3) Whenever my program copies a new replay, it posts the results to Twitter. Something like "I just [won/lost] a game vs [opponent] on [xyz map]!

4) My program will then look up the opponent's ladder data on SC2ranks and display it. Maybe I'll incorporate that into the tweet too.

5) My program will keep track of some basic statistics (win/loss ratio, average apm, etc) and display it to the user when queried.

I plan to release the source to this too if anyone is interested! I doubt that the program itself will be very useful, but I'm excited to create some sort of deliverable in a language I've never used.



501TFX
Profile Joined March 2011
Austria345 Posts
June 25 2012 15:10 GMT
#2
Sounds like an exciting little program, but I think posting EVERY win/loss on twitter is a little bit too much, I would more say you should post every 5th, 10th or you could let customize the amount of tweets the user itself.

I guess SC2Gears is already something like this, but as you said, it isn't supposed to be useful, so I'm not arguing on that point !
Sounds awesome, would love to see the source code. (Never saw python my self, but I am experienced in things like Java, PHP, etc)
Never let your dreams fade, run after them, run until you get them !
LeafMeAlone
Profile Blog Joined November 2010
United States301 Posts
June 25 2012 15:17 GMT
#3
Very interesting idea :O I hope you keep writing blogs about your progress. I'm starting to learn python myself
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CTangent
Profile Blog Joined April 2011
United States125 Posts
Last Edited: 2012-06-25 16:06:52
June 25 2012 16:05 GMT
#4
On June 26 2012 00:10 FeelTHeBluEZ wrote:
Sounds like an exciting little program, but I think posting EVERY win/loss on twitter is a little bit too much, I would more say you should post every 5th, 10th or you could let customize the amount of tweets the user itself.

I guess SC2Gears is already something like this, but as you said, it isn't supposed to be useful, so I'm not arguing on that point !
Sounds awesome, would love to see the source code. (Never saw python my self, but I am experienced in things like Java, PHP, etc)


Thanks! You're right about the tweets, maybe every game is a little extreme. I can easily add a configuration such that it only posts every few games, and posts something along the lines of "I just won x out of my last y games!", or whatever. I just really wanted to get some experience linking up Python with Twitter's API. I'll be sure to post the source code! I'll probably throw it up on github when I get some amount of code.

I realize that SC2gears does a lot of this already, haha. I'm not hoping to compete at all with sc2gears, I'm just writing a fun little program for some Python experience.

On June 26 2012 00:17 LeafMeAlone wrote:
Very interesting idea :O I hope you keep writing blogs about your progress. I'm starting to learn python myself


Will do! I'll post a link to github when I get some code, too. Diving into a small little project like this is definitely the way to go if you want to learn a language! I'm having a lot of fun doing this little project so far.


aike
Profile Blog Joined July 2010
United States1629 Posts
June 25 2012 16:58 GMT
#5
I really need to learn Python one of these days lol. I've always meant to, just always too busy with other stuff. I use PHP mostly, but a little bit of everything else when needed, and the basic idea of all these languages are the same so it's not much work to understand what's going on with Python, I just don't know any of the syntax by heart This sounds like a fun little project, and I do know some people that wouldn't mind using it. What I think would be great with the twitter API is if you could customize the message... So you have say a form with different options where you can choose conditions (On: Loss vs Zerg) followed by the message (Message: "I just lost to a fking Zerg again") or something random like that And allow variables to be added to the message, similar to how you can add variables to your replays that get renamed in SC2Gears.
Wahaha
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