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Re: Ping Owl: Saving a bunch of recipes to PDF

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Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
> On 9/2/15, 7:45 AM, in article fasdfnv83.jiasd@rooftop.invalid, "owl"
> <owl@rooftop.invalid> wrote:

>> Snit <usenet@gallopinginsanity.com> wrote:
>>> You moved goal posts and asked about saving a bunch of recipes to PDF.
>> 
>>> Well, I played for a bit. The ONLY changes I made to my computer to do this
>>> was to add Paparazzi to my dock so I could get to it easily and, as I opened
>>> it the first time (not shown) it asked if I wanted to update so I did. I
>>> also set Paparazzi's save folder to the Recipe folder we have been looking
>>> at.
>> 
>>> Other than that NO changes. No added scripts. No added extensions. No added
>>> anything.
>> 
>>> <http://youtu.be/c65ojXTxynU>
>> 
>>> In under 3 minutes I was able to save all the recipes on the allrecipes.com
>>> homepage to my computer as PDFs... including getting the print version so
>>> they would look good. To be fair: that was my second attempt. With my first
>>> I goofed on a search and replace and instead of just undoing I started from
>>> scratch to "look good" on the video.
>> 
>>> Not a hard challenge at all. :)
>> 
>> OMG you have got to be kidding me!  LOL!
>> I was going to show you this improvement to teh "workflow":
>> 
>> https://vid.me/flKe

> You ended up with *three* in about 30 seconds. Say some is starting and
> ending... we will say one every 5 seconds.

> I did about 80 in about 2 minutes...

Bullshit.

> so averaging about 20 for each of those
> thirty seconds you took... and that is WITHOUT creating new scripts to
> cheat. I am close to 10x faster WITHOUT having to script things before hand!


> Now if I wanted, I ALREADY have a "get links" action... I could modify that
> to scroll to the bottom (to get the page to show more) then massage the data
> and find any line with a ? in it, replacing that with "print/" and then
> copying it. Would have to test to see if Paparazzi is scriptable, but even
> if not could do UI scripting and likely automate that.

So do it.  Talk is cheap.

> So with a bit of work could do it with one hot key. But that is not the
> point. 

>> but since you went insane with that 3-minute dance (holy shit wtf?!)
>> all I have to say is, "Dude, let the computer do the work for you":
>> 
>> https://vid.me/X4kA

> As I said... I could do it, too (and I am not a programmer).

So do it already.

> Misses the
> point. But still, curious what your script looks like.

Sorry.  It's proprietary.


>> Magic dust.  Time to eat some.
>> 70 seconds.
>> 
>> God, I'm so glad I'm not stuck with a Mack.

> I do not think any truck could do this well.

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Re: Ping Owl: Saving a bunch of recipes to PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 14:45 +0000
  Re: Ping Owl: Saving a bunch of recipes to PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 15:09 +0000
    Re: Ping Owl: Saving a bunch of recipes to PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-02 20:05 +0000
      Re: Ping Owl: Saving a bunch of recipes to PDF owl <owl@rooftop.invalid> - 2015-09-03 11:27 +0000

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