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RePod / psdle

Improving everyone's favorite online download list, one loop at a time.
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Regarding Product ID and export #27

Closed ghost closed 8 years ago

ghost commented 8 years ago

Hi, thanks for finally adding an option to search for content by Product ID (but what's the difference with Item ID?), now it's easier to search for all content for a specific game (although it's not 100% perfect, but it's not your fault: for example all Ridge Racer 7 DLC but one have a Japanese region code).

My question is: do you think it's possible to add an optional field to export this useful information? For example everything after "cid=EP####"

Also, do you think it's possible to add an option for PSDLE to remove stuff from the queue (just like it does on the "official" queue), or to disable PSDLE without having to refresh the page? (IIRC it wasn't even possible to do the refresh until a few versions ago, so thanks for that... unless i'm wrong)

RePod commented 8 years ago

Hi, thanks for finally adding an option to search for content by Product ID (but what's the difference with Item ID?)

Item IDs are for the individual... items. Basically things that share a product ID (the base content).

For example: Telsagrad is cross-buy between PS3/4/Vita and they all share the same product ID. However, they each have different item IDs to uniquely identify them. The item ID is what is sent to the download queue.

In PSDLE's list, the item's icon links to the product ID and the name beside it links to the item ID. Hard to have one without the other.

Mind you, I make up this terminology in a way I understand and hope people will understand based off what I see the store doing.

do you think it's possible to add an optional field to export this useful information? For example everything after "cid=EP####"

Anything is possible. However, this seems similar to issue #26 except just with the raw IDs. Your version would favor two rows more for product and item IDs.

do you think it's possible to add an option for PSDLE to remove stuff from the queue

Unless it's broken, this should already be possible by clicking the desired item to remove from the queue. However, while the code itself is sane I don't particularly play it safe and try to do everything immediately (like fetching the updated queue). As a result, PSDLE might sometimes get the "right" information at a "wrong" time.

I don't actually use the queue much (evidenced by how barebones it is) but I could look into it.

disable PSDLE without having to refresh the page?

I don't trust myself with reliably cleaning up PSDLE's residue. A refresh is guaranteed 100% clean. However, browsers may have weird refresh behavior so Ctrl+F5 (hard refresh) might help.

ghost commented 8 years ago

No worries, i only suggested that "refresh" thing because the web Store is a SLUGGISH mess. Anyway i didn't know that clicking on items in the PSDLE queue delete them, thanks for the tip. Now it's only missing an option to put multiple items in the queue at the same time, haha. Too bad it doesn't work like that on the official queue. It gets problematic when you've just formatted your HDD and want to redownload everything (hopefully not my case... for now)

I was more interested in that "export" thing anyway. There are things that just can't be listed with their proper platform no matter if i enable Catalog or not (for example, PS1/PS2 titles listed as PS3, or cross-buy games for PS3 and Vita, listed as for Vita in both entries), and checking their IDs helps a lot.

Like i said it should stay optional, i.e. disabled by default.

RePod commented 8 years ago

People have been asking for a while to be able to export arbitrary data from PSDLE. I have a few ideas that may be able to satisfy everybody, probably.

ghost commented 8 years ago

Good to know ;) thanks, i'll wait for them.