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Scraping the Old School RuneScape (OSRS) Wiki - Part 3 - Extracting MediaWiki Wikitext and Infobox Information from the OSRS Wiki

This post discusses how to extract data scraped from the Old School RuneScape Wiki (referred to as the OSRS Wiki in the remainder of this post). This post is the ...

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Scraping, Wiki Comments

Scraping the Old School RuneScape (OSRS) Wiki - Part 2 - Programming with MediaWiki API Queries to extract data from the OSRS Wiki

This post discusses how to automate “scraping” of the Old School RuneScape Wiki website (referred to as the OSRS Wiki in the remainder of this post). In my last p...

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Scraping, Wiki Comments

Scraping the Old School RuneScape (OSRS) Wiki - Part 1 - Understanding the MediaWiki API provided by the OSRS Wiki

This post discusses how to “scrape” the Old School RuneScape Wiki website (referred to as the OSRS Wiki in the remainder of this post). However, the technique dis...

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Scraping, Wiki Comments

OpenRS Tutorial - Compiling and Using the OpenRS Cache Tools - Detailed guide on how to compile and use the tools from the OpenRS Project

This post outlines instructions for building (compiling) the open source OpenRS project that has the functionality to parse the OSRS cache. Bundled with the proje...

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Installing RuneLite on Ubuntu Linux - A tutorial covering how to correctly install RuneLite system-wide on Ubuntu Linux 18.04

This post documents how I installed RuneLite on a fresh Ubuntu Desktop Linux version 18.04 system. The general process to install and run RuneLite on Linux is pre...

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RuneLite, Linux Comments

WaterCooler: New OSRS Item ID Search Tool - Creating an OSRS Item ID and Item Name Search Tool

This post discusses a collection of new tools that I recently wrote and released on OSRSBox (website and GitHub). The OSRS Item Search tool is a web-based applica...

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Writing RuneLite Plugins - Part 3 - Creating a RuneLite Plugin Config Menu

This post discusses and provides code examples of how to author configuration menus for RuneLite plugins. This post is part of a series about writing RuneLite plu...

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Writing RuneLite Plugins - Part 2 - General Structure of RuneLite Plugins

My last post started the series of my journey developing plugins for the popular open source Old School RuneScape (OSRS) client RuneLite. In that post I covered t...

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Plugin, RuneLite Comments

Writing RuneLite Pulgins - Part 1 - Setting up the RuneLite Development Environment

This post is the first in a series that documents my journey of writing plugins for the popular open-source RuneLite client for Old School RuneScape. This first p...

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Plugin, RuneLite Comments

Determine the OSRS Cache Version using RuneLite - Scripts to Extract OSRS Cache Version using the (old) RuneLite Deobfuscator

Post Update (2018/09/04) This post is no longer relevant as the original RuneLite Deobfuscator has been removed from my GitHub osrsbox-cache repo. This is to ali...

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Cache, RuneLite Comments