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packrat386
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States5077 Posts
September 27 2013 03:44 GMT
#1
I had hinted at this earlier, but at MHacks last weekend I created an application to automate the process of creating Live Report OP's. This project is called Live Report Companion, and you can check out the source code that I just uploaded to git if you're interested.

Right now lichter and co have to spend a pretty significant chunk of time generating live report threads from templates that they themselves have made. With this tool, you ought to be able to create a thread if you know the following information about the event.

Date/Time
Title (Group E)
Tournament (WCS America)
Number of Matches and their format (Dual tournament or not)
And the players playing.

The dialog boxes will prompt you to enter all of this information. Once you have entered it all, it should then pop up a text box that gives BBcode that will generate a pretty nice looking page on here.

Some particularities of the program
- You need to enter the date and time in the exact format asked for them. If you don't, the program probably shouldn't break, but it will almost certainly not give you the date and time that you want.
- You need to enter the tournament title in the same format that it is displayed in the liquipedia title, so for example "2013 WCS Season 3 America/Premier" . If you don't do it, it won't break anything, but the liquipedia link just won't go anywhere.
- If the player dialog box says "one of the those players didn't parse" it means that I didn't find a player under the page with that name. If you double check your spelling (and the liquipedia page for that player) and you are still getting an error, you should PM me as its probably a bug.
- If the program freaks out and crashes on you, don't worry. It doesn't access any local files so it can't really cause any harm. Just PM me what you were doing when you got a bug and move on.

Things that you still have to do
- include a header image, there are too many tournaments for me to reasonable keep track of them.
- include stream and caster information

This program would probably NOT be good for tournaments like dreamhack where you don't specify the competitors up front. It is much better suited to dual tournament groups, or sets of predetermined matches.

The program and the source code can be found here
https://github.com/packrat386/LiveReportCompanion/tree/master/v1.1

If you just want to use the program you only need to download LiveReportCompanion.jar . Just double click and it should start right up.

If you want to try to make my program better, or if you're just interested in the code, all of the source code is on there, along with documentation in the doc folder (to see all the documentation, click index.html). I've tried to check for major bugs, but I think that there could easily still be smaller ones that I haven't found, and I would always welcome efforts to make this a better tool by adding features. I tried to comment my code liberally, but if you get to any part that you don't understand, just PM me and I'll do my best to get back to you.

I hope you guys can make use of this, and that it works.

Many thanks to the Liquipedia and TLPD teams for their tireless work to document SC2, without them these sort of applications wouldn't be possible.

Special thanks to salle, PoP, imallinson, and especially R1CH for helping me when I had questions.

****
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Azera
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
3800 Posts
September 27 2013 03:55 GMT
#2
This is cool dude! So awesome to lessen the workload of others
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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
September 27 2013 04:01 GMT
#3
I'll check it out on Monday <3
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BigFan
Profile Blog Joined December 2010
TLADT24920 Posts
September 27 2013 04:30 GMT
#4
I don't make many OP and only live reported several times but this sounds useful. gg wp!
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Profile Blog Joined May 2009
Bearded Elder29903 Posts
September 27 2013 06:43 GMT
#5
Next level of Live report threads
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Shady Sands
Profile Blog Joined June 2012
United States4021 Posts
September 27 2013 13:33 GMT
#6
PM R1CH and have him incorporate this into the Tourneys section.
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MountainDewJunkie
Profile Blog Joined June 2009
United States10343 Posts
September 27 2013 23:48 GMT
#7
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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
September 30 2013 03:35 GMT
#8
Comments so far:

I entered "hero" and it resulted in a dead link and a terran. HerO vs herO is probably the reason but it could be overlooked by some that it's wrong.
I entered "rain" and it resulted in a dead link and a terran. It might try to use former TSL/Fanatic Rain, but if the tlpd used is HoTS by default, this error shouldn't happen
Many names don't get properly capitalized, such as scarlett, dear, trap, rain, maru, soulkey. Worked for PartinG and soO though.
Some of the spacing within spoilers needs a fix
Live report section does not have premade [url] tags
Needs a 'start from scratch' button or a back button
Needs a "New" button for when more than 1 OP will be made
Needs twitch/gomtv icons in the Streams section

Otherwise its pretty useful. Right now I think it takes maybe 10% faster with the LR Companion Tool. Still have to copy paste the header, casters, stream info, convert time to GMT, remember the Liquipedia title, and it feels like there are one or two more steps than necessary. For creating brand new tournaments this is more convenient, but for tournaments with set formats already, the gains are marginal at best.

Thanks though, I might use it sometime still
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packrat386
Profile Blog Joined October 2011
United States5077 Posts
September 30 2013 06:21 GMT
#9
On September 30 2013 12:35 lichter wrote:
Comments so far:

I entered "hero" and it resulted in a dead link and a terran. HerO vs herO is probably the reason but it could be overlooked by some that it's wrong.
I entered "rain" and it resulted in a dead link and a terran. It might try to use former TSL/Fanatic Rain, but if the tlpd used is HoTS by default, this error shouldn't happen
Many names don't get properly capitalized, such as scarlett, dear, trap, rain, maru, soulkey. Worked for PartinG and soO though.
Some of the spacing within spoilers needs a fix
Live report section does not have premade tags
Needs a 'start from scratch' button or a back button
Needs a "New" button for when more than 1 OP will be made
Needs twitch/gomtv icons in the Streams section

Otherwise its pretty useful. Right now I think it takes maybe 10% faster with the LR Companion Tool. Still have to copy paste the header, casters, stream info, convert time to GMT, remember the Liquipedia title, and it feels like there are one or two more steps than necessary. For creating brand new tournaments this is more convenient, but for tournaments with set formats already, the gains are marginal at best.

Thanks though, I might use it sometime still


Thanks for the feedback. I'll definitely look into some of those. The hero and rain error comes from the fact that this is looking through liquipedia and so the search is getting a disambiguation page. This is part of the reason that mvp is also likely not a valid input. As for proper capitalization, as a result of the way the search is done it will only fix the caps if there are weird caps in the middle (like PartinG and soO), otherwise it can just use the lowercase version, so it does. Not saying that these can't be fixed, I just like to explain why it isn't working now.

As for whether its faster, my goal in making this was sort of that anybody would be able to make an LR thread "on the fly" as opposed to a certain small group of people (mainly you) making them all beforehand. If you're used to the process and have a sort of template then you're not going to be inputting much more input than the ones that I'm asking for. Its hard to beat the speed that comes from experience

Thanks again for the feedback though. I'll look into sometime when school isn't killing me :/
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lichter
Profile Blog Joined September 2010
1001 YEARS KESPAJAIL22272 Posts
September 30 2013 06:40 GMT
#10
Yeah it's super convenient for people who want to make LR OPs for their own tournaments and don't want to start from scratch. Fixing all the stuff I mentioned is easy compared to making one on your own.
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