Reinstate Townlong Yak?

[csutcliff]

Hi,

Now that the Townlong Yak addons are being updated again is there anything blocking them being reinstated as a source in CurseBreaker?

https://www.townlong-yak.com/addons/

[AcidWeb]

Site is back but API is not. I would love to re-add TY support.

[Barleduq]

Would it make more sense for you, @AcidWeb , to contact the author at Townlong Yak and ask about being able to download from there again, or one of us users? To be honest, a user talking to them and then telling you feels like it will introduce errors ala the game of Telephone. But if you'd rather someone else make the initial contact, I'll be happy to.

[AcidWeb]

He knows.

[jfdhuiz]

If known, why not resort to scraping and parsing the HTML with say BeautifulSoup. It is their choice they don't want to implement a free API. Same for Tukui/ElvUI and Wago. We both lose, sadly, but as stated: by their choice. Not ours.

[AcidWeb]

Because this application have strict no scraping policy.

(Also ElvUI/Tukui have API.)

[jfdhuiz]

Why do you have such policy? What does it matter whether I use an automated program or a manual program to see if I have the latest version of addons? As long as I don't F5 every second it should be OK.

[AcidWeb]

It matters for me.

[jfdhuiz]

And you're not willing to share why.

[AcidWeb]

If site don't provide usable API that mean third party updaters are not welcomed there. I'm quite deep in WoW addon author community and I have different look on the stance you presenting.

[JasonBristol]

If known, why not resort to scraping and parsing the HTML with say BeautifulSoup. It is their choice they don't want to implement a free API. Same for Tukui/ElvUI and Wago. We both lose, sadly, but as stated: by their choice. Not ours.

Scraping isn't an interface and therefore unmaintainable at worst, and fragile to changes to their UIs at best, something you can avoid entirely with a versioned API

Not sure why their API is disabled, but it's not worth the headache and likely performance hit to CB even if the author wanted to implement it

[AcidWeb]

Status update: Some of his addons are available on CF. Libraries got GIT repository support for packager. Sadly there is still no API to access the addons.