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Posted May 13, 2017
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Barefoot_Monkey: Looks like GOG's API no longer reports forum replies
A forum reply notification is shown in the "All forums" page though, which still displays the "You have X replies" message (or whatever it is). Maybe you can see where that page gets the number from and use that instead?
Posted May 13, 2017
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JaqFrost: Thanks for the link! =) Can I install over my current version or do I need to uninstall first?

Thank you for your help and the link. =) You don't have to go through extra work on my behalf. I'll update Firefox and see if it solves my issue.
Sorry for the very belated reply. If still relevant, the answer is no, just install over your existing installation



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Bookwyrm627: That sounds depressingly deliberate. :-/ [...]
It does indeed, I guess GOG didn't appreciate us pointing out that Barefoot_Monkey fixed the notifications in a day. ;-)


Cheers for the latest update, Barefoot_Monkey!
Posted May 13, 2017
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JMich: A forum reply notification is shown in the "All forums" page though, which still displays the "You have X replies" message (or whatever it is). Maybe you can see where that page gets the number from and use that instead?
That might well work. I strongly suspect that the "You have X replies" is being generated directly into the page's html code, so there are no web services that I can use, but I still have the option of loading the entire page in the background and parsing it (probably caching the result in sessionStorage to avoid burdening GOG with more server load). Could someone maybe reply to me so I can start experimenting?
Posted May 13, 2017
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Barefoot_Monkey: That might well work. I strongly suspect that the "You have X replies" is being generated directly into the page's html code, so there are no web services that I can use, but I still have the option of loading the entire page in the background and parsing it (probably caching the result in sessionStorage to avoid burdening GOG with more server load). Could someone maybe reply to me so I can start experimenting?
Sure thing.
Posted May 14, 2017
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Barefoot_Monkey: Could someone maybe reply to me so I can start experimenting?
Thanks as always for the hard work. Plus I thought perhaps you could use another notification for testing.
Posted May 14, 2017
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Barefoot_Monkey: snip
In case you should need a second reply .... :)
Posted May 14, 2017
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Barefoot_Monkey: Could someone maybe reply to me so I can start experimenting?
One more reply in case you need it.
Posted May 14, 2017
I think it's time to send you a thick THANK YOU.

The GOG experience isn't the same without the Barefoot Essentials. I noticed that, after I had to re-install Windows.
I wondered about what the heck is wrong with the GOG site? Then I remembered that I have to get the BE back.

Again, thanks for all your work. :)
Posted May 15, 2017
hmm, does all the "updates" not work?
Some of my games were updated in GoG Galaxy the last few days but i got no sign whatsoever that a game in my library was updates.
Are the updates still not here on the GoG site or do i need to wait a little more to get the updates shown to me again?

And thanks for all your work, really like to have the old style back.
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Posted May 15, 2017
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Godfather101: hmm, does all the "updates" not work?
Some of my games were updated in GoG Galaxy the last few days but i got no sign whatsoever that a game in my library was updates.
Are the updates still not here on the GoG site or do i need to wait a little more to get the updates shown to me again?

And thanks for all your work, really like to have the old style back.
Yes, the game update flags are still broken afaik. GOG stuff said that they are planning to fix these "eventually". But m ylast information was that Barefoot_Monkey fixed these in his script. Only forum reply flags don't work at all.
Post edited May 15, 2017 by MarkoH01
Posted May 15, 2017
yeah, i installed the barefoot essentials and have the update for games switched on in the settings and it worked.
But then, after the update which broke the forum replies updates, i don't get game update flags either.
thats why i asked.
Post edited May 15, 2017 by Godfather101
Posted May 15, 2017
My game update flag appears to be working, although the number of updates hasn't change for about the past 3 to 4 days so not sure if it's just showing the last value or is a true live value. If the actual number of updates changes and the BE update flag value doesn't change I'll post back here.
Posted May 15, 2017
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Barefoot_Monkey: [...] Looks like GOG's API no longer reports forum replies [...]
Just had a thought - assuming that they still work in GOG Galaxy, how are those reported? Could that perhaps be used?
Posted May 16, 2017
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Version 2.22 is up for GreaseMonkey users. This version restores forum reply notifications.

I use a workaround inspired by JMich's suggestion to look at https://www.gog.com/forum . Since there is no longer an API call to discover forum replies I actually scrape that entire page to find out if you have replies.

I want to avoid effectively doubling GOG's server load so I implemented a simple caching mechanism. If Barefoot Essentials has checked for forum replies within the last 2 minutes then it simply displays that result from last time it checked, otherwise it performs a page scrape in the background. This means notifications will take a little while to appear or disappear, so if you're wondering why the little white-on-red number isn't disappearing immediately after you open a thread, that's the reason.

It's very late at the moment, so I'll test and publish the update for Chrome tomorrow. Have a good night :)
Posted May 16, 2017
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Barefoot_Monkey: Version 2.22 is up for GreaseMonkey users. This version restores forum reply notifications.

I use a workaround inspired by JMich's suggestion to look at https://www.gog.com/forum . Since there is no longer an API call to discover forum replies I actually scrape that entire page to find out if you have replies.

I want to avoid effectively doubling GOG's server load so I implemented a simple caching mechanism. If Barefoot Essentials has checked for forum replies within the last 2 minutes then it simply displays that result from last time it checked, otherwise it performs a page scrape in the background. This means notifications will take a little while to appear or disappear, so if you're wondering why the little white-on-red number isn't disappearing immediately after you open a thread, that's the reason.

It's very late at the moment, so I'll test and publish the update for Chrome tomorrow. Have a good night :)
Works great. Thank you again soooooo much!
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