My wrapper includes a simple ocr

02-09-2007, 08:50 PM

I am releasing my wrapper as an OCX. It works flawlessly for me and is more than comparable speed wise with ripper w/zgate.

The one I had made with winsock API got fubar'd so I redid it with winsock control. Speed difference is much better with it this way, I have now quit with winsock API. It has no real benefit speed wise in my opinion.
Features of this wrapper.
GZIP
Proxy support
Simple neopets OCR function.
Streaming Picture for ocr(no need to download the capture image)
Headers are precise to firefox 2.0.

Its a real simple wrapper, no other functions are built into it yet, not even sure if I will add any more.

Sample usage:

Code:

wrapper.UseProxy ("192.168.0.1:8080")
strhtml = wrapper.Nget("www.neopets.com/petcentral.phtml")
strhtml = wrapper.NPost("www.neopets.com/login.phtml", "username=" & user & "&password=" & password & "&destination=%2Fpetcentral.phtml")
wrapper.NOCR (link)
wrapper.StopProxy

A sample showing ease of OCR function.

Code:

link = wrapper.GetBetween(strhtml, "captcha_show.phtml?_x_pwned=", ChrW(34))
    txtocr = wrapper.NOCR(link)

Thats all you need to use the ocr, no need for a picturebox its on the wrapper. You should also notice it does not download the picture but streams it in.
Speeds on buys are around 700ms for my connection. Thats from finding item thru the buy.

This should make it alot easier for people wanting to make an aber.
Comments are very welcome.
When releasing your projects do not forget to also release the the ocx and the UnZip.dll with it or your programs will not work.

02-09-2007, 10:04 PM

I hate doing this and hope you don't really count it as a double post.
I wanted to post the results of a preliminary speed test between this and ripper w/zgate.
The results are below.
Outline of the test.
I made a project with both wrappers on it. I then made 4 buttons. One a piece for a log in and one for the following routine after it logged in.
The routine is a simple page refresher. Each wrapper refreshed the inventory screen 50 times with a one second interval between. After they refreshed 50 times the average time it took was calculated. Below are the results.

Ripper w/zgate
499.38
447.18
458.44
424.08
418.12

My wrapper
452.82
480.64
449.98
453.12
391.26

Overall Average from 250 refreshes ripper 449.44, mine 445.564.
As you can see the wrappers are pretty much dead even. There is no real difference. I am going to continue to run these test to get a larger sample, but I think it is not needed.

Ryan · 02-09-2007, 10:07 PM

Nah, you can DP.

SInce you're senior programmer, but just in this section.

GJ btw.

Nitech · 02-11-2007, 06:38 AM

Nice. Your API one didn't work for meh for some reason. I am definetly going to download this one

02-11-2007, 11:20 AM

Good thing not many downloaded this yet. After some more extensive testing it would fail on the cookies every once and blue moon(I am talking like once every 2000 or so refreshes). I have been recoding this and I should have a fixed one released soon.

m0nk3y_i3unz · 08-21-2007, 10:09 AM

Moved, for same reason as others.