Hey,
I am trying to make a bot for a flash game using python. However I am
having some trouble with a screen scraping strategy. Is there an
accepted way to compare a full screenshot with the image that I want
to locate? It is a math based game, so I just have to check what
number, 1-9, appears in the center of the flash game. Is there an
easier method to do this?
Thanks
-Jeff
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On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:45:21 +0000, jeffbg123 wrote:
Hey,
I am trying to make a bot for a flash game using python. However I am
having some trouble with a screen scraping strategy. Is there an
accepted way to compare a full screenshot with the image that I want
to locate? It is a math based game, so I just have to check what
number, 1-9, appears in the center of the flash game. Is there an
easier method to do this?
Thanks
-Jeff
That sounds like an OCR problem, unless the numbers are so consistently
rendered that you can just store copies of all 9 (I'd pick a non-lossy
format) and compare.
On Jul 11, 10:31 pm, Dan Stromberg - Datallegro
<dstromb...@datallegro.comwrote:
On Wed, 11 Jul 2007 12:45:21 +0000, jeffbg123 wrote:
Hey,
I am trying to make a bot for a flash game using python. However I am
having some trouble with a screen scraping strategy. Is there an
accepted way to compare a full screenshot with the image that I want
to locate? It is a math based game, so I just have to check what
number, 1-9, appears in the center of the flash game. Is there an
easier method to do this?
Thanks
-Jeff
That sounds like an OCR problem, unless the numbers are so consistently
rendered that you can just store copies of all 9 (I'd pick a non-lossy
format) and compare.
The numbers are always rendered the same. So I don't know if OCR is a
necessary step.
Also, what if I just got the data from the packets? Any disadvantages
to that? Any good python packet capturing libraries?
Thanks
Ühel kenal päeval, K, 2007-07-11 kell 12:45, kirjutas jeffbg123:
Hey,
I am trying to make a bot for a flash game using python. However I am
having some trouble with a screen scraping strategy. Is there an
accepted way to compare a full screenshot with the image that I want
to locate? It is a math based game, so I just have to check what
number, 1-9, appears in the center of the flash game. Is there an
easier method to do this?
Thanks
-Jeff
Maybe you can compare screenshots by the size, if they vary.
Raul
jeffbg123 wrote:
The numbers are always rendered the same. So I don't know if OCR is a
necessary step.
Also, what if I just got the data from the packets? Any disadvantages
to that? Any good python packet capturing libraries?
Thanks
Packet capture is probably a bad idea for two reasons.
1) It will give you a lot of packets you don't need and at a OSI layer
so low that reassembly is painful. Try writing a HTTP or SOCKS proxy and
get the Flash game to use that proxy.
2) Many Flash games would probably store (in the Flash file) or generate
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