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MSPAF SNOP, the Silly-Named Opinion Parser

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MSPAF SNOP is a Python 2.7 program designed to parse MSPA forum theads. Once known as vBullet! and designed to work with all vBulletin boards, its compatability scope became much more specific after I realized that not all vBulletin forums are equal and that trying to account for every possible style difference was probably a waste of time. As such, there are some remnants of all-inclusive compatibility scattered about, most notably in date and time parsing.

One of the most significant problems I ran into that caused me to adjust the scope of the project was that of understanding forum-inspecific BBCode elements. While there are some global codes like [code] and [quote], different versions appear to have differing implementations. Further, plugin-provided codes like [spoiler] don't necessarily follow the same conversion to HTML that the global codes do. I decided to focus purely on my reasons for writing the program - namely, MSPAF - but feel free to modify the code to support more forums.

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Proper execution of MSPAF SNOP depends on the existence of external libraries not included in vanilla Python 2.7.3. These are:

  • lxml - for speedy XML comprehension
  • Beautiful Soup 4 - for working effectively with the forum HTML tree

License

MSPAF SNOP is licensed under a very simple BSD license. See snop-license.txt for details.

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