Magic: The Gathering and Dice Masters collection data source scripts for Tellico

https://github.com/tomaszg7/tellico_stuff

The Magic the Gathering script grabs information from http://gatherer.wizards.com. It is rather ugly regexp job since the Gatherer doesn't support (as far as I know it) any API. So, it is sure to break in the future when they change the layout of their webpage (or even refactor their html).

Right now it supports searching the online database by card name, artist name and "multiverse id". It grabs all data I could think of (including card image) and stores it in collection. If you can't find a card by name, you can try to locate it on-line and add to collection using its Gatherer id (multiverse id). You can also make decks using Tellico's loan feature.

Sample screenshot of a demo collection: http://tomaszg.pl/tellico-mtg/screenshot.jpg

Requirements:

1. Perl
2. Perl modules: Getopt::Std, File::Fetch, MIME::Base64, File::Copy, Storable
3. (optional) Archive::Zip for some helper scripts

Installation:

Put the file mtg2.pl in Tellico datasource directory (or anywhere else) and mtg*.pm files where Perl can find them. You can check @INC paths via:

perl -e "print @INC"

You need to add a new datasource for "Custom Collection" configuring Tellico (see screenshot: http://tomaszg.pl/tellico-mtg/config.jpg):

1. Collection type: Custom
2. Result type: Tellico
3. Check:
   • "Title": -n %1
   • "Person": -a %1
   • "arXiv id": -N %1
   • "Update": -N %{multiverseid}

I don't think it's possible to make arbitrary labels for search fields, so "title" means card's name, "person" means artist and "arxiv id" denotes Gatherer's "multiverse id".

Create empty collection of "custom" type and just use datasource to look for the cards. It prints out only 10 first results, so you might need to search some by multiverse id.

The scripts caches search results and images in ~/.cache/mtg-perl.

Helper scripts:

• mtg-braki.pl - reads Tellico database files listed in mtg_bases.pm and prints out missing cards for a given expansion(s) and/or some stats, including prices
• mtg-check-pseudo.pl - reads Tellico databases and checks if there are some "pseudocards" listed there. At the moment it only looks for cards listed by hand in mtg_pseudo.pm
• mtg-set.pl - generates a Tellico database containing whole expansion
• mtg-parse-decklist.pl - generates a Tellico database based on a decklist file (each line containing number and card_name, numbers are ignored at the moment)
• mtg-prices.pl - calculates value of collection according to "trend price" from http://www.cardmarket.com

Some scripts have hardcoded locations of input/output files, so they might need hand-tuning.

Dice Masters:

Dice Masters support requires an extra SQLite database file since I couldn't find reliable online source. I got the file from Android app "Transition zone" but due to licensing issues I don't think I can upload it. If anyone would be interested, I can try to contact author of the app and ask for permission.