Downloading 1 file at a time is very time consuming, so I wonder if there is some way to mass download all maps.
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Is there some way to download all SC BW UMS maps hosted on stare
There are some "archive all maps" projects, but it seems they dont have any of the staredit.net maps
Downloading 1 file at a time is very time consuming, so I wonder if there is some way to mass download all maps.
Downloading 1 file at a time is very time consuming, so I wonder if there is some way to mass download all maps.
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AposYou can't download everything at once, but this site has a great archive: https://bounding.net/.
Is there any way to submit files to this site? I don't see it.
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In my opinion it would be great to be able to download in bulk maps from staredit.net somehow
First of all, the map quality here is generally much higher than on other places + those other places dont seem to have all maps visible here. Does anyone have an idea how to download maps from here without doing it manually?
Today I tried to download maps in bulk from 2 diferent archives that I found, but those 2 archives are very incomplete - they dont have most maps from staredit.net
For reference, I found:
1)
https://gitlab.com/scmaps.net/starcraft_brood_war_maps_archive
The gitlab page has archive that is kind of wrong (e.g. they supposedly sorted maps alphabetically, yet under letter "P" they have a subfolder called "Proffesional maps" that contains like 10 maps), also it is unupdated since 2016. It also misses A LOT of maps.
2) Other is this one:
https://scmscx.com/
Im downloaind from this one, this has more maps + horrible interface, need to download maps starting on each letter separately.
Thank you for the recommendation of the https://bounding.net/ page - google didndt show it.
However I wonder if it has any option bulk download all the maps? I wanted to download them all, but it seems you can only download 1 at a time. Also do we know that it has all maps from staredit.net?
This https://bounding.net/ site claims to have 66k maps at top of the page, but in "results" shows 83k results... those numbers dont match -> not sure if they did hash checks to remove duplicates, also still unclear if they have all staredit.net maps or not. I guess not.
My idea is to download all the maps from everywhere and make one "final" archive, since those 2 archives that I found earlier didnt have the maps that I have. Im not convinced if boulding has them all as well, although it for example has some of my maps.
Also as I wrote in beginning - it would be nice to be able to download the staredit nets in bulk separately, just to be sure you got all maps. Downloading 1 at a time is really painful.
But let's stay on my question please: how to bulk download from staredit.net? Does anyone have any ideas?
Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Aug 7 2021, 10:14 pm by 8882a.
First of all, the map quality here is generally much higher than on other places + those other places dont seem to have all maps visible here. Does anyone have an idea how to download maps from here without doing it manually?
Today I tried to download maps in bulk from 2 diferent archives that I found, but those 2 archives are very incomplete - they dont have most maps from staredit.net
For reference, I found:
1)
https://gitlab.com/scmaps.net/starcraft_brood_war_maps_archive
The gitlab page has archive that is kind of wrong (e.g. they supposedly sorted maps alphabetically, yet under letter "P" they have a subfolder called "Proffesional maps" that contains like 10 maps), also it is unupdated since 2016. It also misses A LOT of maps.
2) Other is this one:
https://scmscx.com/
Im downloaind from this one, this has more maps + horrible interface, need to download maps starting on each letter separately.
Thank you for the recommendation of the https://bounding.net/ page - google didndt show it.
However I wonder if it has any option bulk download all the maps? I wanted to download them all, but it seems you can only download 1 at a time. Also do we know that it has all maps from staredit.net?
This https://bounding.net/ site claims to have 66k maps at top of the page, but in "results" shows 83k results... those numbers dont match -> not sure if they did hash checks to remove duplicates, also still unclear if they have all staredit.net maps or not. I guess not.
My idea is to download all the maps from everywhere and make one "final" archive, since those 2 archives that I found earlier didnt have the maps that I have. Im not convinced if boulding has them all as well, although it for example has some of my maps.
Also as I wrote in beginning - it would be nice to be able to download the staredit nets in bulk separately, just to be sure you got all maps. Downloading 1 at a time is really painful.
But let's stay on my question please: how to bulk download from staredit.net? Does anyone have any ideas?
Post has been edited 2 time(s), last time on Aug 7 2021, 10:14 pm by 8882a.
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AFAIK what you want to do is impossible, this site is pretty old, it's honestly a miracle it's still running at all, I think most credit for that currently goes to DevliN 
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AposYou can't download everything at once, but this site has a great archive: https://bounding.net/.
Is there any way to submit files to this site? I don't see it.
For now the upload is private, which maps were missing? I can forward them to the creator.
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AposYou can't download everything at once, but this site has a great archive: https://bounding.net/.
Is there any way to submit files to this site? I don't see it.
For now the upload is private, which maps were missing? I can forward them to the creator.
Can you please ask the creator if they would provide a download link for all maps?
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AposYou can't download everything at once, but this site has a great archive: https://bounding.net/.
Is there any way to submit files to this site? I don't see it.
For now the upload is private, which maps were missing? I can forward them to the creator.
Well I saw a very old version of my Impossible Ultraviolet map in there, but not anything very recent.
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Bumping this old topic
Has anyone thought to:
1) collect all maps from this site (download archive)
2) Upload them to:
* starcraft map archive on github - probably will survive long, since github is owned by Microsoft
* upload to scmscx archive - where interface is improved and allows deduplication?
Has anyone thought to:
1) collect all maps from this site (download archive)
2) Upload them to:
* starcraft map archive on github - probably will survive long, since github is owned by Microsoft
* upload to scmscx archive - where interface is improved and allows deduplication?
Here is a json-file containing every .scm/.scx file attached to any thread since the dawn of time for SEN. When people have linked to files containing ".scm" or ".scx" in the URL, those links are also included (although a fair amount of those links are presumably dead).
Using jq, you specify what you are interested in. The following would download all attached maps into a directory for each forum:
You can retrieve all links, sorted by forum using:
The above works on Linux and presumably Mac.
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Using jq, you specify what you are interested in. The following would download all attached maps into a directory for each forum:
Code
jq -r '
.[] as $b
| $b.items[]
| select(.url and .filename)
| [ $b.board,
.url,
(.filename
| gsub("[\t\n\r/]"; "_")
| gsub("^[.-]+"; "_"))
]
| @tsv
' maps.json |
while IFS=$'\t' read -r board url filename; do
mkdir -p "$board"
dest="$board/$filename"
if [ -e "$dest" ]; then
base="${filename%.*}"; ext="${filename##*.}"
[ "$base" = "$filename" ] && ext="" || ext=".$ext"
i=1
while [ -e "$board/${base}_${i}${ext}" ]; do i=$((i+1)); done
dest="$board/${base}_${i}${ext}"
fi
curl -L --fail -o "$dest" "$url"
done
.[] as $b
| $b.items[]
| select(.url and .filename)
| [ $b.board,
.url,
(.filename
| gsub("[\t\n\r/]"; "_")
| gsub("^[.-]+"; "_"))
]
| @tsv
' maps.json |
while IFS=$'\t' read -r board url filename; do
mkdir -p "$board"
dest="$board/$filename"
if [ -e "$dest" ]; then
base="${filename%.*}"; ext="${filename##*.}"
[ "$base" = "$filename" ] && ext="" || ext=".$ext"
i=1
while [ -e "$board/${base}_${i}${ext}" ]; do i=$((i+1)); done
dest="$board/${base}_${i}${ext}"
fi
curl -L --fail -o "$dest" "$url"
done
You can retrieve all links, sorted by forum using:
Code
jq -r '
.[]
| {board, urls: [.items[] | select(.type == "link") | .url] | unique}
| select(.urls | length > 0)
| "\n=== \(.board) ===", .urls[]
' maps.json
.[]
| {board, urls: [.items[] | select(.type == "link") | .url] | unique}
| select(.urls | length > 0)
| "\n=== \(.board) ===", .urls[]
' maps.json
The above works on Linux and presumably Mac.
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Here is a json-file containing every .scm/.scx file attached to any thread since the dawn of time for SEN. When people have linked to files containing ".scm" or ".scx" in the URL, those links are also included (although a fair amount of those links are presumably dead).
It would be nice to also include the timestamp for the original file upload (or post timestamp if that's not available), at least for scmscx which is trying to map origin timestamps.
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Here is a json-file containing every .scm/.scx file attached to any thread since the dawn of time for SEN. When people have linked to files containing ".scm" or ".scx" in the URL, those links are also included (although a fair amount of those links are presumably dead).
It would be nice to also include the timestamp for the original file upload (or post timestamp if that's not available), at least for scmscx which is trying to map origin timestamps.
No problemo. I added timestamps of the post, the name of the person making the post, as well as their SEN forum ID. Of course, attaching / linking a map does not automatically make you the author of said map.
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Symmetry -- https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OgLecsPyObI doesn't even look like a starcraft map at all[07:20 pm]
Symmetry -- I was looking at some maps for reference and the stuff that gets put out is insane
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