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Screensize: 640 x 480 800 x 600 1024 x 768 1280 x 1024 UserName: Password: Format Mode: Basic  Help  Prompt  Format: Font Andale Mono Arial Arial Black Book Antiqua Century Gothic Comic Sans MS Courier New Georgia Impact Lucida Console Script MT Bold Stencil Tahoma Times New Roman Trebuchet MS Verdana   Size 1 2 3 4 5 6   Color Black Red Yellow Pink Green Orange Purple Blue Beige Brown Teal Navy Maroon LimeGreen Forum: Scripts Subject: Message: * HTML is OFF * Forum Code is ON Smilies [code]Scripting How to make a script for XMM Example: FILMTV.IT 1. Set the script’s description for information purposes (no execution) ------------------------------------------------- - eXtreme Movie Manager - - MagicScript Technology - - 2001-2016 BinaryWorks.it - -------------------------------------------------- - Web : FilmTV.IT - - Author : JDommi - - Date : 5/June/2013 - - Comments: Import All Information - --------------------------------------------------- 2. Setup of the script (needed/shown on selecting a script for import) #MADEBY#=JDommi #DATEBUILD#=2018-05-14 - 09:38 #WEBSITE#=FilmTV.IT (Italian) #NOTE#=Importa tutte le informazioni disponibili #SCRIPTQUALITY#=5 #SCRIPTGENERATION#=3 #REPLACESPACES#=+ #TVSERIES#=FALSE #SCRIPTFORACTORS#=FALSE #LANGUAGESORT#=IT [LANGUAGESORT]=EN=English|IT=Italian|FR=France|DE=Deutsche #TYPE#=0 [TYPE]=0=Complete|1=Covers|2=Trailers|3=Tunes|4=Subtitles|5=Chains|6=Mistakes|7=Games|8=Adult|9=Anime #OPTIONS#=1 [OPTIONS]=0=No Options 3. Set the search term #WEBQUERY#=https://www.filmtv.it/cerca/?q=#MOVIE##film 4. Script specific options (#LOADOPTIONS#) #SETOPTION#=#90#1[Importa Galleria Foto]0=Non prendere foto|1=Prendi tutte le foto #SETOPTION#=#91#3[Note e Commentari]0=Niente|1=Solo Note|2=Solo Commentari|3=Note e Commentari 5. Set global variables to their values (#SETVARIABLES#) #PUT#=0#00# 6. Check if the search term is already a valid link (#RIGHTPAGEFOUND#) for updating an already imported movie 7. Read the list of movies that match the search term (#CREATEMOVIELIST#) and output them this way: #WRITETITLELIST#=webaddress ---> Title [more info if wanted] §Link to Cover 8. Preload subpages for later use (#LOADWEBSLOTS#) if needed #OPENWEBSLOT1#=#03# #LOADWEBSLOT1# … script code … #RESTOREMAIN# Alternatively use #OPENNEWWEB# … #RESTOREWEB# in other blocks 9. Get all the info of a movie (different blocks) See http://www.binaryworks.it/cgi-bin/data/wiki/doku.php?id=programmer_s_guide 10. Special blocks for removing/replacing HTML code constants #DELETETAGS# #61664; remove phrases from a variable #61664; #DELETEWORD#=Top 250: #SUBSTITUTETAGS# #61664; replace HTML code #61664; #SUBSTITUTEWORD#=±=± #SUBSTITUTEWEBQUERY# #61664; replace HTML code in WEBQUERY’s search term #61664; #SUBSTITUTEWEBQUERYWORD#=#=%23 11. Important commands to set, save or get saved positions (line / cursor) #COMPUTECURSOR#=+/- value #61664; set the cursor position relatively to it’s current position #RESETCURSOR# #61664; set cursor to the start of the line #STARTREADWEB# #61664; set line and cursor to the start #PUTCURSOR#=#01# #61664; save the cursor position to a variable #LOADCURSOR#=#01# #61664; reload the cursor position #SAVEWEBSITELINE# #61664; save the actual websiteline (No variable used) #RESTOREWEBSITELINE# #61664; reload the actual websiteline (No variable used) 12. Special commands Search a phrase in the loaded HTML of the website #FIND#=text#01# #61664; find next occurrence of text in current website line and store the cursor position in variable #FINDPREVIOUS#=text#01# #61664; find previous occurrence of text in current website line and store the cursor position in variable #FINDLINE#=text#01# #61664; find next occurrence of text in website lines and store the cursor position in variable #FINDPREVIOUSLINE#=text#01# #61664; find previous occurrence of text in website lines and store the cursor position in variable #READNEXTLINE# #61664; read next line of website or #READNEXTLINE#=2 #61664; read 2 lines of website #TAKEWORD#=#13#,#01#,#02# #61664; store website line from position 1 to position 2 in variable 13 #CHECKVARIABLE#=#13# #61664; perform replacements on variable #61664; #STARTSUBSTITUTETAGS#, #STARTDELETETAGS#, #CLEARTAGS#, #TRIM# #STRING#=#13#=text #61664; combine text and/or variable (or multiple phrases) #PUT#=0#13# #61664; fill a variable with an alphanumerical value 13. Loops and conditions #IF# #01#==#02# // ==, <<, >> … code or #GOTO#=LABEL // continue with code line :LABEL #ENDIF# #REPEAT# … code … #WHILE# #01#==#02# Use only one condition of the same kind (do not nest them). You can combine both #IF# and #REPEAT# 14. Take info (different commands) See http://www.binaryworks.it/cgi-bin/data/wiki/doku.php?id=programmer_s_guide 15. There are a few more commands but in 99% of all cases you need only the above mentioned. 16. For scripting use either the MagicScript Editor or the ScriptDebugger. MagicScript Editor is the internal one ScriptDebugger is a plugin and behaves under rare conditions slightly different but is much more comfortable[/code]   Check here to include your profile signature.