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[Neoquest]

Quite a few people have been requesting an Automatic book buying program, so I've written one that I think does the job pretty well.

Features:

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• Buys books from user shops, reads from a list
• Includes a list of the 2100 cheapest books, in order
• Includes a budget system so you never spend over a certain amount of NP buying books
• Detects and waits until shop wizard bans are over
• Waits 1.5-2.5 seconds before each page load
• Reads books to active pet when inventory is full
• Attempts to reread boring books with the language set to Spanish
• Automatically uses the newest version each time it runs (Thanks Inkheart for this idea)
• Distributed in .exe form
• Runs through command line, because GUIs are no fun
• Probably some other stuff, but I can't remember
• Most current booklist created will be attached to this post.

Usage:

Start with a totally empty inventory for best results, and never set your budget higher than the amount of NP on hand. When starting up the program, login, give the name of the book list you will be using (without the file extension.) The book list must be in the same directory that the program is in. Lastly, set the max amount of NP you want to spend. Pretty simple.

How it Works:

• The USAB portion of the program buys the first 50 books on your list.
• The Auto Reader portion of the program attempts to read every item in your inventory, even if it isn't a book. This is why you should start with an empty inventory.
• The Auto Reader sets your language to Spanish and goes through the books that were marked as boring.
• The USAB portion of the program buys the next 50 books on your list.
• Steps 2-4 are repeated indefinitely until the program is closed.

A log from the program in action:

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Please Login...
Username: xxxxx
Password: xxxxxx
Logging in...
Logged in!
List name: books
Budget: 20000
Checking items...
Will be reading books to xxxxxx.
Bought Counting Babaas | Cost: 2 | Item 2
Bought Day In The Life Of King Roo | Cost: 1 | Item 3
Bought Faellie Handbook | Cost: 2 | Item 4
Bought Faellie Tales | Cost: 2 | Item 5
Bought Fantastic Faellies | Cost: 3 | Item 6
Bought Gallant Gallions Comic | Cost: 6 | Item 7
Bought Gallion Care | Cost: 1 | Item 8
Bought Gallion Colouring Book | Cost: 2 | Item 9
Bought Kiko Pop-Up Book | Cost: 1 | Item 10
Bought Meepit vs Feepit Game Guide | Cost: 3 | Item 11
Bought My First Babaa | Cost: 5 | Item 12
Bought Skeith Inspired Treasure Maps | Cost: 1 | Item 13
Bought The Gorgeous Gallion | Cost: 2 | Item 14
Bought The Luckiest Babaa | Cost: 4 | Item 15
Bought The Secret of Treasure Island | Cost: 1 | Item 16
Bought Turmac Snacks | Cost: 1 | Item 17
Bought Tuskaninny Treasure | Cost: 3 | Item 18
Bought Waterlogged Book | Cost: 5 | Item 19
Bought Yurble Tales | Cost: 2 | Item 20
Bought Grooming Your Faellie | Cost: 1 | Item 21
Bought Peopatras Petpets | Cost: 2 | Item 22
Bought Babaa Care | Cost: 1 | Item 23
Bought Island Cybunny Guide | Cost: 1 | Item 24
Bought Maraqua Colouring Book | Cost: 2 | Item 25
Bought More Than Carrot Cake | Cost: 5 | Item 26
Bought Neopian Times Issue 3 | Cost: 40 | Item 27
Bought Ogrin Survivor | Cost: 2 | Item 28
Bought Pirate Small Talk | Cost: 3 | Item 29
Bought Gruslen Pop-Up Book | Cost: 4 | Item 30
Bought Lenny Crosswords | Cost: 35 | Item 31
Bought Awesome Blumaroo Battles | Cost: 1 | Item 32
Bought Mystery Of The Kougra Paw | Cost: 30 | Item 33
Bought Mystery Island Tour Guide | Cost: 99 | Item 34
Bought Petpet Park | Cost: 10 | Item 35
Bought Book of Origami Paper | Cost: 98 | Item 36
Bought Nimmo - Now and Zen | Cost: 29 | Item 37
Bought The Life of a Double Crosser | Cost: 30 | Item 38
Bought Inside the Mind of a Lupe | Cost: 20 | Item 39
Bought Bubble Sculptures | Cost: 150 | Item 40
Bought Fishing For Zafaras | Cost: 100 | Item 41
Bought The Plushie Coffee Table Book | Cost: 90 | Item 42
Bought Toast Treats | Cost: 2 | Item 43
Bought A Kau Summer | Cost: 100 | Item 44
Bought Haunted Mynci | Cost: 274 | Item 45
Bought Mystery Of Halloween | Cost: 390 | Item 46
Bought Spooky Kau Story | Cost: 300 | Item 47
Bought The Grundo Pirate | Cost: 240 | Item 48
Bought Geraptiku Recipes | Cost: 200 | Item 49
Bought Halloween Ruki Tales | Cost: 390 | Item 50
Max items in inventory met.
Reading books...
Ultimate Wocky Manual read successfully
Counting Babaas was a boring book
Day In The Life Of King Roo read successfully
Faellie Handbook read successfully
Faellie Tales read successfully
Fantastic Faellies read successfully
Gallant Gallions Comic read successfully
Gallion Care read successfully
Gallion Colouring Book read successfully
Kiko Pop-Up Book read successfully
Meepit vs Feepit Game Guide read successfully
My First Babaa was a boring book
Skeith Inspired Treasure Maps read successfully
The Gorgeous Gallion read successfully
The Luckiest Babaa read successfully
The Secret of Treasure Island read successfully
Turmac Snacks read successfully
Tuskaninny Treasure read successfully
Waterlogged Book read successfully
Yurble Tales read successfully
Grooming Your Faellie read successfully
Peopatras Petpets read successfully
Babaa Care read successfully
Island Cybunny Guide read successfully
Maraqua Colouring Book read successfully
More Than Carrot Cake read successfully
Neopian Times Issue 3 read successfully
Ogrin Survivor was a boring book
Pirate Small Talk read successfully
Gruslen Pop-Up Book read successfully
Lenny Crosswords read successfully
Awesome Blumaroo Battles read successfully
Mystery Of The Kougra Paw read successfully
Mystery Island Tour Guide read successfully
Petpet Park read successfully
Book of Origami Paper read successfully
Nimmo - Now and Zen read successfully
The Life of a Double Crosser read successfully
Inside the Mind of a Lupe read successfully
Bubble Sculptures read successfully
Fishing For Zafaras read successfully
The Plushie Coffee Table Book read successfully
Toast Treats read successfully
A Kau Summer read successfully
Haunted Mynci read successfully
Mystery Of Halloween read successfully
Spooky Kau Story read successfully
The Grundo Pirate read successfully
Geraptiku Recipes read successfully
Halloween Ruki Tales read successfully
Done reading books, reading boring books.
Managed to read item 1674916481!
Still failed to read a boring book.
Managed to read item 1674916908!
Done reading Boring Books!
Bought Spooky Skeith Adventures | Cost: 190 | Item 2
Bought Spooky Buzz Tales | Cost: 460 | Item 3
Bought One Scary Night | Cost: 250 | Item 4

Leave feedback and enjoy!

Attached Files

•  BookBuyer.zip   1.72MB   415 downloads
•  booklist.txt   41.25KB   232 downloads

Edited by Neoquest, 04 June 2012 - 07:11 PM.

[Pavement]

Beautiful. Nice work!

[Polyphony]

Amazing, thanks!

[syaopup]

Tips on how get a list of books that your pet has not read from the cheapest to the most expensive:
http://items.jellyneo.net/books/ for Book list
http://items.jellyne.../booktastic.php for Booktastic Book list
Sort by Price Ascending, do not show book images.
Copy and paste into a txt file, and format it using similar tactics used in creating AB lists.
Using this method, you won't buy books your pet has already read. Not sure if the program takes that into account.

Also, thanks for the program, the release was really timely, I have been manually doing this for the past few days!

Edited by syaopup, 25 March 2012 - 06:41 PM.

[Neoquest]

Tips on how get a list of books from the cheapest to the most expensive:
http://items.jellyneo.net/books/ for Book list
http://items.jellyne.../booktastic.php for Booktastic Book list
Sort by Price Ascending, do not show book images.
Copy and paste into a txt file, and format it using similar tactics used in creating AB lists.

Also, thanks for the program, the release was really timely, I have been manually doing this for the past few days!

Huh, that's pretty neat. I should have it check the already read books, thanks

Edited by Neoquest, 25 March 2012 - 06:44 PM.

[Strategist]

Fuck me.... youre too good mate +rep when i can. cheers!

[Icey Defeat]

What headers does it send out of curiosity?

[Neoquest]

What headers does it send out of curiosity?

Mozilla/5.0

[Romy]

It is a good day for lazy asses everywhere

[Icey Defeat]

Mozilla/5.0

Alright. Thanks .

[Neoquest]

Thanks for the support everyone

[Strategist]

Well I'm home from work now and have fired it up, but it doesn't do anything. Well, it shows this:



and i have the books.txt file in the same folder as the bookbuyer prog. I have no idea if im dong anything wrong. Please help?

[Neoquest]

Well I'm home from work now and have fired it up, but it doesn't do anything. Well, it shows this:



and i have the books.txt file in the same folder as the bookbuyer prog. I have no idea if im dong anything wrong. Please help?

Yeah, I've noticed that happens with my Krawk, but not my Draik. Lemme see if I can find what's going wrong.

Edit: This is pretty weird, it doesn't seem to be reading the file correctly. It wasn't happening with earlier testing.

Edited by Neoquest, 25 March 2012 - 08:57 PM.

[Strategist]

ok cheers mate

[Inkheart]

Yeah, I've noticed that happens with my Krawk, but not my Draik. Lemme see if I can find what's going wrong.

Are you sure this isn't just a case of import not being able to find "standard"? I'm guessing this piggy-backs on the Program Manager having added that to the list of available modules, but you really ought to stop using getBetween() and getUntil() anyway. : P Regular expressions are extremely powerful and meant to be used for just those sorts of things.

Also, just another friendly tip, reading a line-delimited file into an array really should be a one-line operation, not 8:

items = re.split('\r?\n', open('list.txt').read())

[Neoquest]

Are you sure this isn't just a case of import not being able to find "standard"? I'm guessing this piggy-backs on the Program Manager having added that to the list of available modules, but you really ought to stop using getBetween() and getUntil() anyway. : P Regular expressions are extremely powerful and meant to be used for just those sorts of things.

Also, just another friendly tip, reading a line-delimited file into an array really should be a one-line operation, not 8:

items = re.split('\r?\n', open('list.txt').read())

Thanks Inkheart I'll stop being an idiot tomorrow and work out the issues.

[Rainie]

I actually remember a topic suggesting this O: !

Thanks for your awesome & hard work again ♥ ^^

[Turnip]

Whoa, sweet!! I'll definitely be using this soon~ Thank you!! ♥

Mozilla/5.0

Mmm, what about people who don't use FF? Can we just change that bit to the browser we use or would everything explode and not work? /just wondering

[Neoquest]

I've got a pretty bad flu so don't expect me to work on/fix this for several days.

[Strategist]

any updates on this mate? Figured out the issue with it not working properly?

[Neoquest]

any updates on this mate? Figured out the issue with it not working properly?

No, I kinda forgot after I was sick, I'll check it out if I've got time today.

[Strategist]

No, I kinda forgot after I was sick, I'll check it out if I've got time today.

Cool thanks

[Aarpm]

Looking forward to this getting fixed. Thanks!

[RedRaz0r]

Just wanted to pop in and say thanks for this beautiful program, eagerly awaiting its return!

[cornymikey]

This sounds like a great idea. Just one suggestion though: is there any way to match the list of cheapest books with a list of books your pet has already read, to make sure you don't buy books you've already read?

Don't know if this is a difficult task or not, but it would be a great addition to this wonderful idea if possible. Thanks again!