public MainWindow()
{
//Do NOT use GenerateCache() unless absolutely necessary
//GenerateCache()
html.HtmlParser parser = new html.HtmlParser();
InitializeComponent();
LoadCache();
UpdateCache();
GetFinalPage();
GenerateList();
}
//To be used only if the cache file gets deleted
//or to replace a cache that contains errors
private void GenerateCache()
{
List <string> urls = new List <string>();
List <string> titles = new List <string>();
List <html.HackInfo> hackList = new List <html.HackInfo>();
html.HtmlParser parser = new html.HtmlParser();
string response = parser.CallUrl("https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&s=smwhacks&n=0");
HtmlDocument htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
htmlDoc.LoadHtml(response);
var pageNumbers = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.Descendants("a")
.Where(node => node.GetAttributeValue("title", "").Contains("Go to page "));
foreach (var page in pageNumbers)
{
finalPage = Convert.ToInt32(page.InnerHtml);
}
for (int i = 1; i <= finalPage; i++)
{
response = parser.CallUrl("https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&s=smwhacks&n=" + i);
//Generate HTML doc from URL and parse only sections containing hack links
htmlDoc.LoadHtml(response);
var hackURLs = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.Descendants("a")
//Checks that the link is not from a Tip section of the page
.Where(node => !node.ParentNode.GetAttributeValue("class", "").Contains("rope"))
//Grabs urls of hacks based on their url containing "details"
.Where(node => node.GetAttributeValue("href", "").Contains("details"))
//Checks that smwcentral is not contained
.Where(node => !node.GetAttributeValue("href", "").Contains("smwcentral"));
//Add URLs to hacks and the names of hacks into HackList object
foreach (var hackURL in hackURLs)
{
urls.Add("https://www.smwcentral.net" + WebUtility.HtmlDecode(hackURL.GetAttributeValue("href", "")));
titles.Add(WebUtility.HtmlDecode(hackURL.InnerText));
}
}
for (int i = 0; i < urls.Count; i++)
{
try
{
hackInfo = parser.ParseInfo(urls[i]);
hackInfo.title = titles[i];
foreach (var c in System.IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars())
{
hackInfo.title = hackInfo.title.Replace(c, ' ');
}
hackList.Add(hackInfo);
}
catch { }
}
string jsonString = JsonSerializer.Serialize(hackList);
System.IO.File.WriteAllText("./resources/cache.json", jsonString);
}
//Checks if the local cache file matches the SMWCentral's most recent files
//If not, it adds all hacks not currently included into the cache file
//If the cache file is very old, this function can take several minutes
private void UpdateCache()
{
List <html.HackInfo> newHacks = new List <html.HackInfo>();
List <string> urls = new List <string>();
List <string> titles = new List <string>();
html.HtmlParser parser = new html.HtmlParser();
int titleIndex = -1;
int i = 1;
while (titleIndex < 0)
{
string response = parser.CallUrl("https://www.smwcentral.net/?p=section&s=smwhacks&n=" + i);
//Generate HTML doc from URL and parse only sections containing hack links
HtmlDocument htmlDoc = new HtmlDocument();
htmlDoc.LoadHtml(response);
var hackURLs = htmlDoc.DocumentNode.Descendants("a")
//Checks that the link is not from a Tip section of the page
.Where(node => !node.ParentNode.GetAttributeValue("class", "").Contains("rope"))
//Grabs urls of hacks based on their url containing "details"
.Where(node => node.GetAttributeValue("href", "").Contains("details"))
//Checks that smwcentral is not contained
.Where(node => !node.GetAttributeValue("href", "").Contains("smwcentral"));
//Add URLs to hacks and the names of hacks into HackList object
foreach (var hackURL in hackURLs)
{
urls.Add("https://www.smwcentral.net" + WebUtility.HtmlDecode(hackURL.GetAttributeValue("href", "")));
titles.Add(WebUtility.HtmlDecode(hackURL.InnerText));
}
if (titles.Contains(cache[0].title))
{
titleIndex = titles.IndexOf(cache[0].title);
}
i++;
}
for (i = 0; i < titleIndex; i++)
{
try
{
hackInfo = parser.ParseInfo(urls[i]);
hackInfo.title = titles[i];
foreach (var c in System.IO.Path.GetInvalidFileNameChars())
{
hackInfo.title = hackInfo.title.Replace(c, ' ');
}
newHacks.Add(hackInfo);
}
catch { }
}
newHacks.AddRange(cache);
string jsonString = JsonSerializer.Serialize(newHacks);
System.IO.File.WriteAllText("./resources/cache.json", jsonString);
LoadCache();
}