ParseMeFoo

What is this?

ParseMeFoo is a simple parse game/challenge where the challenges is made in python but you can solve them using any method you want.

A challenge can be everything that can be parsed using line by line parsing. Typical log files, commandline output, and other places where you need to get a better overview from a higher perspective..

How does it work?

ParseMeFoo will generate a list of 10 lines. It is upto the challenge itself to choose how that line will look like, and it can be everything from a word, to a long sentence.. The challenge also knows how the line should look like if you did the right thing to it.

Example

$ ./parsemefoo basic_swapper help
Usage: ./parsemefoo basic_swapper [start | done | help]

## Example output ##
SYJJBCYF I2JMT997
J1GS6B23 AADKAYOJ
SGBEVOG4 18TM9XBD
IIW3D64A 26TDUV1H

## Example input ##
I2JMT997 SYJJBCYF
AADKAYOJ J1GS6B23
18TM9XBD SGBEVOG4
26TDUV1H IIW3D64A

$ ./parsemefoo basic_swapper test | awk {' print $2 $1 '}
Example output:
1JZ700QV HP8EXC1D
7Y9SA3U5 1LMXIFZY

Example solution:
HP8EXC1D 1JZ700QV
1LMXIFZY 7Y9SA3U5

Your progress:
HP8EXC1D1JZ700QV
1LMXIFZY7Y9SA3U5

$ ./parsemefoo basic_swapper start | awk {' print $2" "$1 '} | ./parsemefoo basic_swapper done
You did it!

$ ./parsemefoo list
solved:
 basic_swapper (A basic wordswap challenge)

unsolved:
 basic_upperme (Easy challenge which wants uppercase input)
 dummy (Dummy challenge which outputs the solution)

Solving with python

There is a little python script called solver.py which is a template for a very minimal pythonscript you will need to use as a pipe in one of the challenges. To use it, just change the content of the trySolve function inside and use it as a pipe like:

./parsemefoo dummy start | ./solver.py

Installation

• Using git: git clone git://github.com/xeor/ParseMeFoo.git
• Using wget: wget https://github.com/xeor/ParseMeFoo/zipball/master -O parsemefoo.zip && unzip parsemefoo.zip

Contribute

One of the best things with ParseMeFoo is that it is supereasy to create your own challenges and contribute to the project.

Copy the dummy.py file in the challenges folder and edit it..

Here is one of the simplest challenges called upperme.

class Challenge:
    author = 'Your Name'
    description = 'Easy challenge which wants uppercase input'

    def generate(self):
        return 'uppercaseme'

    def parse(self, line):
        return line.upper()

For each line it generates using the generate() function, it will automaticly run it trough the parse() function and use the output to judge your job. This is all you haveto do to make a challenge, generate some text in generate() do something with it in parse(), and ParseMeDo will take care of the rest :)

Yea, and please... If you come up with some cool challenges, fork the project, mail it to me, upload it to pastebin and give me a link on irc.. Just let me add it.. :=)

Happy Parsing!