pyNSrecruit 0.2.4 | Auto-Telegramming/Recruitment Tool

[South Jarvis]

http://www.nationstates.net/cgi-bin/api.cgi?q=happenings;filter=move

Could this be added as an alternative filter?

Reasoning being if a nation is already prepared to move they might be tempted to a different region than they originally aimed for

Thanks for the suggestion! It's on my list of things to add to pyNSrecruit.

[Jean Pierre Trudeau]

This seems to be working great. Thanks for the good work, it is greatly appreciated by the community.

[Topid]

I just tried to run this for my region. I got an error in the log "Error 403 Client Not Registered For API". To me that sounds like I do not have a valid API key, but it is the same API key I've used for over 2 years for The US. It was working last time I tried to use it (5 months ago). I don't know why it would have quit working.. o.O

I just thought I'd post here to see if anyone knows what could have happened before I waste a mods time asking for a new key that I only think I need.

[The Confederate State of Missouri]

Could be because of this

Just a notification to NS++ recruiting players:

I just cleaned up the Client Key database. I removed

• Anyone whose script hasn't been active for a year or more
• Anyone who had requested a key three or more months ago and never used it

We don't mind issuing Client Keys to players who will use them, but it's annoying and a fair amount of work to issue keys to people who just think it's cool to have a key.

Please don't request a Client Key unless you a) know how to use it and b) plan to use it.

Thanks,
The NS Game Mods

[Nouvelle Tealand]

I'm not incredibly techy but really like the sound of this tool so I've downloaded Python 3.4 or something for Mac OSX but whenever I open the main file from the zip folder it just comes up with a box of code.... anyone know how to get to the user interface on a mac? :/

[Farlander Socialist Republic]

This is a great tool, but i keep encountering a problem. Sometime when instead 180 seconds between each telegrams, it waits forever.

[Kautharr]

Is this legal?

[Zocra]

Will there be a .deb file in the future?

[Zocra]

Is this legal?

Yes.

[Dalaen]

Will there be a .deb file in the future?

Dear Zocra,

Forgive me for interrupting but a .deb package is entirely unnecessary. Simply run from the command line, you can even create shortcuts that would do the command for you. Currently this is a beautifully simple solution to a problem. Creating a .deb package would simply add unnecessary bloat to the software and your system in turn.

Yours Sincerely,

Dalaen

[Kautharr]

When I try to open it, it just opens it as a text file... Is this linux only?

[Imperium Anglorum]

When I try to open it, it just opens it as a text file... Is this linux only?

You may need to install Python to execute Python files (.py)

[South Jarvis]

Hu wha? Hey, this is still here!

I've just pushed a minor update, 0.2.3, which switches the telegram API over to HTTPS per the new API documentation.

[South Jarvis]

Another update today: pyNSrecruit will now refuse to start telegramming if you have not saved the settings to a campaign. The previous behaviour was a poor design decision on my part and has tripped up several people.

[Frisbeeteria]

pyNSrecruit will now refuse to start telegramming if you have not saved the settings to a campaign.

I don't know what this means in your app, but I'm hoping it means you look for a checked 'campaign' or 'recruitment' checkbox in the telegram template. If it's not, that would be a great feature, welcomed by mods and players alike.

[LollerLand]

pyNSrecruit will now refuse to start telegramming if you have not saved the settings to a campaign.

I don't know what this means in your app, but I'm hoping it means you look for a checked 'campaign' or 'recruitment' checkbox in the telegram template. If it's not, that would be a great feature, welcomed by mods and players alike.

It actually means that the program won't run until the settings are saved into the save file. But a feature like the one you mentioned would be really great!

[Imperium Anglorum]

pyNSrecruit will now refuse to start telegramming if you have not saved the settings to a campaign.

I don't know what this means in your app, but I'm hoping it means you look for a checked 'campaign' or 'recruitment' checkbox in the telegram template. If it's not, that would be a great feature, welcomed by mods and players alike.

I don't think there is a way of verifying that a telegram is checked as campaign or recruitment without something like this, so it is possible to actually query for that information. There is a theoretical workaround in that you could webscrape your way to doing that, but you would have to log into NationStates with your username and password. It would also take forever to do, as there are strict rate-limits on web-scraping. I would note that Communique has this exact same save requirement, just that Communique automatically creates an autosave file when the program closes.

[Heaverian Islands]

Hey guys! I am in need of help! I have a linux server. And well... I'm not very good with Linux. Is it possible to get this telegrammer or any with the Linux terminal? If so, how? Thank you!

[Vegaslovakia]

Does this work on QPython 3? I don't know how to use the app, or obtain an API or whatever it is you need to run pyNSrecruit.

[Kassimo]

Thank you kindly for this resource! :)

[Potato]

http://prntscr.com/matnuj

I was sending telegrams through API yesterday and then restarted my PC, and then it did this when I started it up.

[Waybaria]

Exactly the same issue here, pyNSrecruit, NSTG and others are dead. The API seems to be not working at all

[Androdium]

So I think I’ve ran into a problem. PyNSrecruit used to work fine however once I tried getting the tgid and secret keys from a web address it gave me a warning message stating (If a nations have been telegramed then it’s ok to stop telegramming now.) or something on the lines of that

[Al-Hadun]

[warn] All applicable nations have been telegrammed already. Waiting 30 seconds
[warn] If telegramming a fixed number of participants it is safe to stop telegramming now.
What does this mean?! Please help?!

[Marxist Germany]

What I understand is that you have already telegrammed the nations on the list recently and the game doesnt allow you to send recruitment TGs too frequently to the same nation.