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Contains scripts to generate automatic scoreboards for the Neopets Altador Cup and display on GitHub Pages, as well as python scripts to help with the Altater Cup.

Automatic Scoreboards

Two automatic Altador Cup scoreboards are configured for Exodus and Ratville respectively.

Due to Neopets limitations on bot activity and the AC userstats page being behind the login page, the score data needs to be scraped semi-manually. This is done with the scripts/score_fetcher.js Tampermonkey script.

Installing Tampermonkey Script

  1. Copy contents of scripts/score_fetcher.js and paste into a new Tampermonkey script
  2. Create a new GitHub personal access token on your account. Instructions can be found here. You will need to grant it write access to this repository.
  3. Upon first use, fill in the constant values: 
    // FIRST TIME USERS MUST FILL IN THESE DETAILS!!!!
const SECRET_GITHUB_TOKEN = '<your_secret_github_token>'
const MY_USERNAME = '<your_neopets_username>'

Updating the Scoreboard

The script works by updating the respective _scores.json file every time you visit the userstats page of a player. The userstats page of each player is hyperlinked in the USERNAME column of the scoreboard. Typical update process is as follows:

  1. Navigate to the Altater Cup or Ratville scoreboard
  2. Make your way down the username column, clicking on each name (cmd+click to open in a new tab). Wait about 5 seconds between each click so that the stats page will load and it will successfully write the update to GitHub. (FUTURE ENHANCEMENT TODO: add retry logic in the case of the race condition when multiple userstats pages are opened at the same time)
  3. After all userstats pages have been visited, wait about 3-5 minutes for the pages-build-deployment GitHub action to complete running. You can view status here. (NOTE: each userstats update creates a new commit in the repo, which triggers a new GitHub action run, and cancels the previous pending GHA run. Sometimes GHA takes a minute to fully catch up. For page updates to take effect, you need to wait for the most recent GHA run to succeed.)
  4. Once the deploy is complete, hard refresh the scoreboard page (cmd+shift+R)
  5. Scan the LAST UPDATED (NST) column to make sure each player’s stats wer updated successfully, i.e. the update time is within the last ~10 minutes. If it’s out of date, click on their usrname again to force the update.

Adding New Players to Scoreboard

The Altater Cup

Exodus companion event for the Altador Cup.

Python scripts require python 3.9. Recommend using pyenv and pipenv for Python version/virtual env management.

Generate CSV for Participant Tracking

cd python
pipenv shell
python generate_csv.py

These commands will generate a file that reads in altater_scores.json, turns it into a csv for easy copy/pasting, and then publishes to a file named publish/mm-dd-yyy.csv. This file can then be copy/pasted into the Auto Scores tab of the master Participant Tracking google sheet.

The Potato Pile

Your name will be written on every potato you earn during the Altater Cup. These potatoes will then be placed in a giant pile, mixed around, and names/potatoes will be drawn. The order in which the potatoes are drawn will determine the ORDER in which Altater Cup participants will choose their prizes (one at a time) from the Gift Shoppe!

In order to generate the pile.html webpage:

  1. Download the Potato Pile tab as a csv from the master Participant Tracking google sheet
  2. Copy/paste contents into data/potato_counts.csv
  3. Run generate_potato_pile.py script, which will generate data/potato_pile.json which populates the pile.html page: 
    cd python
pipenv shell
python generate_potato_pile.py
  4. Commit and push changes
  5. Wait for the GitHub pages build deployment action to finish running, and then hard refresh the page

Archive Directory

Contains record of historic pages. Current contents of the archive directory include: