Post by Scamaranga on May 5, 2020 17:14:52 GMT
I wish to share a tool I developed a few years ago. Its purpose is to make it easier for baiters to format and get ready for publishing a number of emails belonging to a bait. It can retrieve emails, extract data about the characters involved in them and then process the contents of every email according to custom regular expressions. It can finally generate a text file according to a (also maybe custom) template, for instance BBCode or HTML, using all of the emails in the bait.
The application allows manual exclusion of emails at character and individual email levels, and also features date filtering. It can also show some trivial statistics about the bait and generate word clouds from the whole bait. These can be great fun to see for yourself or to share.
I won't bother you with more details, and at the end of this post is a GDocs brief description of what the app can do with screenshots. The application link is also on a GDrive link at the end of this post. There is a .exe installer for Windows and a .zip distribution for Mac/GNU Linux. The .zip contains a .jar executable file that has to be run with the latest JRE8 (must download separately).
The application is available here: Bait-O-Matic 1.0.2. Source code is available to anyone interested.
The application allows manual exclusion of emails at character and individual email levels, and also features date filtering. It can also show some trivial statistics about the bait and generate word clouds from the whole bait. These can be great fun to see for yourself or to share.
I won't bother you with more details, and at the end of this post is a GDocs brief description of what the app can do with screenshots. The application link is also on a GDrive link at the end of this post. There is a .exe installer for Windows and a .zip distribution for Mac/GNU Linux. The .zip contains a .jar executable file that has to be run with the latest JRE8 (must download separately).
As it stands now, the application has several flaws. From the technical point of view it hasn't been extensively tested so any kind of bugs can appear. And from a functional/user perspective, well, where to start... It's ugly af, exactly the opposite of easy to use or intuitive, and many not to say all of its features may be overcomplicated and/or of too little interest to the common baiter.
Be that as it may, I had lots of fun making this. Back when it happened I had the time and the will to learn and practice new stuff, and making something baiting related was a great motivation for me.Of course any comments, suggestions for improvement or bury-this-bastard-in-hell-and-never-bring-back threats are most(ly) welcome.
The application is available here: Bait-O-Matic 1.0.2. Source code is available to anyone interested.
A brief docx guide on what can the app do is here: Quick guide