Awesome, thanks! Out of curiosity, is there a non-proprietary/open format that you would recommend?
--nathan On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 9:50 PM Steve A <stevena...@gmail.com> wrote: > > I would like to build an automated process that grabs the latest > Caissabase files when they are released, turn them into PGN, and push the > updated games into my own personal database > > Normally PGN is not the solution, but the problem. > In this example, you want a script for tcscid which > > Open your_database > Open cassaibase > sc_search date LASTDATE > sc_filter copy cassaibase your_database > > If you keep a copy of previous_cassabase around, you can also ascertain > LASTDATE > > Have a look in the scripts folder for examples., > And the tkscid programmers reference Web page > for help. > > S. A > > > > On Saturday, January 28, 2023, Nathan Loding <nat...@loding.dev> wrote: > >> I was wondering if there was a way to script the conversion of the >> si4/etc. database(s) to PGN format? There is the CLI tool to convert PGN to >> SCID automatically, but I am looking to go the other way around. I dug >> through the source code, but I am not a Tcl or C++ programmer, and the C++ >> methods are very tightly coupled to the Tcl interpreter; I don't even know >> where to begin >> >> As an example for what I'd like to do: I would like to build an automated >> process that grabs the latest Caissabase files when they are released, turn >> them into PGN, and push the updated games into my own personal database. I >> have some other use cases, including a demo for my day job, but all require >> hands-off automated processing (even if that processing takes some time), >> and can't interact with a GUI. >> >> Any thoughts on whether this is currently achievable, or something that >> could be achieved in the future? Thanks! >> >> --nathan >> >
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