Hello!
Just posting this up in case it would be useful to someone other than me.
Usually, I don't want to take the time to load Nexon's web page just to check basic info about someone. So, I came up with this. It's a PowerShell script that parses the GMS rank listing for any characters you feed it. Unlisted or invalid names will show all dashes. If you want to grab the character's avatar, the -avatar option will download each one. Avatars will be stored as GIF files with each character's name.
I've tested on Windows 7, but it should work on any system with PowerShell 2.0 or higher.
Usage:
Script:
Example:
Enjoy! Any comments or feedback are welcome!
Just posting this up in case it would be useful to someone other than me.
Usually, I don't want to take the time to load Nexon's web page just to check basic info about someone. So, I came up with this. It's a PowerShell script that parses the GMS rank listing for any characters you feed it. Unlisted or invalid names will show all dashes. If you want to grab the character's avatar, the -avatar option will download each one. Avatars will be stored as GIF files with each character's name.
I've tested on Windows 7, but it should work on any system with PowerShell 2.0 or higher.
Usage:
Code:
Get-Rank.ps1 [-avatar] name1 name2 ...Script:
Code:
# Get-Rank.ps1
#
# Given a list of names, pass them through Nexon's rank listing to show
# job and level, or state that they aren't listed.
param(
[switch]$avatar = $false # Dump avatar to file if true
)
$nxweb = new-object net.webclient
foreach ( $name in $args ) {
$rankpage = $nxweb.DownloadString("http://maplestory.nexon.net/Rankings/OverallRanking.aspx?type=overall&s=l&pageIndex=1&key=" + $name + "&search=true&searchtype=name")
# Find script block where the character is in the ranking table
$regex = "(?si)<script type=`"text/javascript`">\s+if \(\'$name\' == \'$name\'(.*?)</tr>"
$found = $rankpage -imatch $regex
if ( $found ) {
$chardata = $matches[0]
# Now we have a chunk of HTML that we can parse for character stats.
# We will build a hash table and make it into an object, so this script's
# output can be piped to Format-Table or Convertto-HTML or whatever.
$a = $chardata -imatch "(?si)<td class=`"level-move`">\s+<div style=`"display:block`">\s+(\d{1,3})"
$level = $matches[1]
$a = $chardata -imatch "title=`"([\w\s]+)`""
$job = $matches[1]
$a = $chardata -imatch "</script>\s+<td class=`"ac`">(\d{1,})"
$overallrank = $matches[1]
if ( $avatar ) {
$a = $chardata -imatch "(http://msavatar1.nexon.net/Character/\w+\.gif)"
$avatarurl = $matches[1]
if ( $avatarurl ) {
$nxweb.DownloadFile( $avatarurl, "$pwd\$name.gif" )
}
}
$a = $chardata -imatch "(?si)<a class=`"world\s([\w\s]+)`""
$world = (Get-Culture).textinfo.totitlecase( $matches[1] )
$CharProperties = @{
Name = $name
Level = $level
Job = $job
World = $world
Overall = $overallrank
}
}
else {
$CharProperties = @{
Name = $name
Level = "-"
Job = "-"
World = "-"
Overall = "-"
}
}
new-object PSobject -property $CharProperties
}Example:
Code:
PS C:\Users\JoeJimBob\Scripts> .\Get-Rank.ps1 Chevette OneTooMini doesntexist | format-table
Name Level Overall World Job
---- ----- ------- ----- ---
Chevette 127 349689 Khaini Magician
OneTooMini 55 2360499 Khaini Jett
doesntexist - - - -
Changelog
Enjoy! Any comments or feedback are welcome!