Re: [Scidvspc-users] Automate SCID database to PGN export?

[Nathan L. <na...@lo...>]

Awesome, thanks! Out of curiosity, is there a non-proprietary/open format
that you would recommend?

--nathan

On Fri, Jan 27, 2023 at 9:50 PM Steve A <ste...@gm...> wrote:

>  > I would like to build an automated process that grabs the latest
> Caissabase files when they are released, turn them into PGN, and push the
> updated games into my own personal database
>
> Normally PGN is not the solution, but the problem.
> In this example, you want a script for tcscid which
>
> Open your_database
> Open cassaibase
> sc_search date LASTDATE
> sc_filter copy cassaibase your_database
>
> If you keep a copy of previous_cassabase around, you can also ascertain
> LASTDATE
>
> Have a look in the scripts folder for examples.,
> And the tkscid programmers reference Web page
> for  help.
>
> S. A
>
>
>
> On Saturday, January 28, 2023, Nathan Loding <na...@lo...> wrote:
>
>> I was wondering if there was a way to script the conversion of the
>> si4/etc. database(s) to PGN format? There is the CLI tool to convert PGN to
>> SCID automatically, but I am looking to go the other way around. I dug
>> through the source code, but I am not a Tcl or C++ programmer, and the C++
>> methods are very tightly coupled to the Tcl interpreter; I don't even know
>> where to begin
>>
>> As an example for what I'd like to do: I would like to build an automated
>> process that grabs the latest Caissabase files when they are released, turn
>> them into PGN, and push the updated games into my own personal database. I
>> have some other use cases, including a demo for my day job, but all require
>> hands-off automated processing (even if that processing takes some time),
>> and can't interact with a GUI.
>>
>> Any thoughts on whether this is currently achievable, or something that
>> could be achieved in the future? Thanks!
>>
>> --nathan
>>
>