Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Automated updates have arrived
The latest update was performed automatically. I have completed the automatic synchronization program that I alluded to earlier. The program uses the data available from the Park Hours page on the Walt Disney World web site. This synchronization program will hopefully keep MouseCal's data more accurate as Disney publishes new information.
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What did you use to write your html extractor?
Thanks for the feed. Works great to pull the park hours to my phone.
> What did you use to write your html extractor?
I wrote the synchronization program in Java. (I program in Java for my day job, so it was the easiest one for me to hack together. Mousecal itself though is written in Python to work with Google App Engine; it started back when Python was the only language that App Engine supported.) I use the HTML Parser Java library to parse the HTML in the Park Hours page. This was an HTML parser that handles the HTML published in the Park Hours. I had done some analysis of the Park Hours HTML from the Disney site and determined quite quickly that it isn't well-formed in an XML sense.
The dates dont seem to be updating beyond september anymore.
Thanks for the heads up. I have manually updated the dates through October while I look at why the data isn't being updated automatically anymore.
I have resolved the primary parsing issue with the published information and did a sync with operating hour data out through beginning March 2010.
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