Guide: Maintaining TUJ Realm Edition Information Automagically

[evo]

For some reason after the file downloads, its doesn't unzip to the directory. I can manually unzip the file so it was downloaded correctly. Any ideas? Thanks

import urllib.request
import zipfile
#replace the $ with your account specific download URL (don't share this account link with anyone
#the URL should look something like http://theunderminejournal.com/TheUn...K3B-Maelstrom
url = "http://theunderminejournal.com/TheUndermineJournal.zip?key=aserimgvasdg&realms=A-Greymane"

#replace the $ with the directory & filename you wish to download the realm info to (filename should end with .zip)
#the filename should look something like C:\documents\TheUndermineJournal.zip
#note: all \ in the filename must be followed by another \
#so from our previous example C:\documents\TheUndermineJournal.zip
#becomes C:\\documents\\TheUndermineJournal.zip
filename = "C:\\Users\\Brandon\\Desktop\\TheUndermineJournal. zip"

#replace the $ with your World of Warcraft Addon Directory with each \ followed by another \ when replacing $ as before
#the addon directory should look something like C:\Program Files\World of Warcraft\Interface\Addons
destinationPath = "C:\\WoW2\\World of Warcraft\\Interface\\AddOns"

urllib.request.urlretrieve(url,filename)
sourceZip = zipfile.ZipFile(filename, 'r')
for name in sourceZip.namelist():
sourceZip.extract(name, destinationPath)
sourceZip.close()

[Wordpad]

This is very useful, thank you so much! I set it up to run at startup and every 9 hours after that, since it can only be downloaded 3 times a day. I also have a shortcut to a copy of the first python file, with a different key, so if I have a big batch of stuff to sell I can on-demand get some up to date data

edit: oh yeah, rebooting your computer could become a problem if you do that often.. but for my case it isn't. Another method could be to open WoW in the script, and simply use it as your shortcut to WoW - depending on how often you play.

[fireymerlin]

I just found this thread.
Thank you very, very much. I used to be a computer programmer (many, many, many years ago) but am too lazy to do what you did. Again thank you.

[Gamz]

At Evo I think you are having the same problem i was. You have to enable full control on the undermine journal folder for regular users since i dont think python runs this script in admin. This is how you can Go to your addons folder and right click The undermine journal folder. Select properties and go to security tab click edit from there click on users and or the other logins on your computer If you have multiple. Then click the full control box. Click apply and your done.

[Reverb]

At Evo I think you are having the same problem i was. You have to enable full control on the undermine journal folder for regular users since i dont think python runs this script in admin. This is how you can Go to your addons folder and right click The undermine journal folder. Select properties and go to security tab click edit from there click on users and or the other logins on your computer If you have multiple. Then click the full control box. Click apply and your done.

Are you using this script still? If people are using it I'll update it to be less obtuse.

[Gissa]

I just discovered this script and trying it out! /crosses fingers

[Gamz]

I am using it and its working fine for me no problems at all since i allowed the full control of tuj folder for normal user logins other than admin on my comp

[Gissa]

I've been using this for a few days now and love it...but one question: When does the 24 hrs reset for downloads? It's 10:46am, I just logged on for the first time today, and it says I've already downloaded 4 times today. Does it reset at 9pm pst? 12am pst?

[Erorus]

I've been using this for a few days now and love it...but one question: When does the 24 hrs reset for downloads? It's 10:46am, I just logged on for the first time today, and it says I've already downloaded 4 times today. Does it reset at 9pm pst? 12am pst?

The counter never resets. In your example, between Feb 15, 10:46am and Feb 16, 10:46am you used 4 downloads.

[Gissa]

The counter never resets. In your example, between Feb 15, 10:46am and Feb 16, 10:46am you used 4 downloads.

Oh...hmm...ok. I spread out my downloads to every 3 hours instead of every 2 b/c I was showing 8 downloads by 6pm and was like "Oh no! I'm gonna run out!" I guess I wasn't going to after all