Cav Scripts

Google Apps Script Project URL

Site Tools

The site tools functions are built to grab certain information from from the 7th Cavalry Website after logging into the website. Currently the Google PropertiesService is used to fetch login information contained within the Script Properties (See table at end of page linked).

To call the Site Tools functions after importing the library use CavScripts.siteTools()

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getCookie

This method gets the session cookie through the use of Google's urlFetchApp Service.

Input

Variable Name	Type	Description
user	string	7Cav Forum username
pw	string	7Cav Forum password

Output

Variable Name	Type	Description
N/A	string	session cookie

getPage

This method retrieves the raw HTML of a webpage that would require a login. Authentication for the forum is retrieved via the getCookie method documented above.

Variable Name	Type	Description
URL	string	URL of a 7cav.us page

this getPage will throw an error if the URL entered is not a proper 7cav.us URL.

getThreads

UNDER CONSTRUCTION

This method retrieves a list of threads present on a forum board.

Input

Variable Name	Type	Description
URL	string	7Cav forum url
pageOptions	integer	How the method will handle multiple pages [Default: 0] (see below for parameters) NOT IN USE... YET

pageOptions Parameters: (Will only use parameter 0 till feature is fixed)

• 0 - Only first page
• 1 - All pages
• 2 - Only last page

Output

Primary output will be an array with each index being a object literal containing the following information about each post:

Variable Name	Type	Description
title	string	Thread title
id	integer	Thread id

getThreads will throw an error if the URL is not a proper 7cav.us forum URL (7cav.us/forums/).

parseThread

This method grabs specific information from a thread