[WIP] BitcoinTalk Auctioneer: Auction Helper

BitcoinTalk Auctioneer

Tired of manually, and tirelessly counting all those bids in the Auction sub-forum? I am too! So, I slapped together some code to help with the process of summarizing the current winning bids:

http://bitcoin-talk-auctioneer.appspot.com/

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Beautifying CSV Formatted Bids
You can specify the CSV formatted active bids, and it will spit out something like this:

Name	Quantity	Price	Remaining
VJain	10	1.05	390
rottenchris	10	1.05	380
Line	15	1.05	365
Melbustus	20	1.04	345
SilentSonicBoom	1	1.04	344
obom29	10	1.03	334
Haibi	10	1.03	324
gog1	100	1.03	224
lagmo	30	1.02	194
fpgaminer	10	1.02	184
Rodyland	20	1.02	164
batcoin	10	1.02	154
twobits	20	1.02	134
furuknap	11	1.02	123
aahzmundus	75	1.01	48
penta	48	1.01	0
penta	2	1.01	-2
imsaguy	25	1.01	-27
caoxg	100	1.01	-127
qwk	30	1	-157
acayne	100	1	-257
hephaist0s	11	1	-268
maxmint	10	1	-278
punin	100	1	-378

This part of the website is working quite well. I used it in this auction to give fairly frequent updates. The downside is, someone still has to monitor the posts to collect the CSV formatted bids.

NOTE: bids must be CSV formatted like so:

Code:

name,quantity,bid

For example:

Code:

qwk,30,1
acayne,100,1
hephaist0s,11,1
maxmint,10,1
punin,100,1
aahzmundus,75,1.01
penta,50,1.01
imsaguy,25,1.01
caoxg,100,1.01
lagmo,30,1.02
fpgaminer,10,1.02
obom29,10,1.03
Rodyland,20,1.02
batcoin,10,1.02
Haibi,10,1.03
twobits,20,1.02
gog1,100,1.03
furuknap,11,1.02
Melbustus,20,1.04
SilentSonicBoom,1,1.04
VJain,10,1.05
rottenchris,10,1.05
Line,15,1.05

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Automatic Summary
This tool can also attempt to figure out active bids automatically, given a URL to the thread. This feature is a Work-In-Progress and it requires posters in the thread to follow some guidelines:

1) Bids should be submitted like so: "10 @ 1.045" which means "I want 10 pieces of what you're selling, and will pay 1.045 for each."
2) To cancel a bid, post "cancel 10 @ 1.045". This will cancel all of your previous bids that match that quantity and price.
3) Bids and cancels must not be formatted in anyway (no bolding, italics, etc), and must be on their own line in the post. i.e. "Change to 10 @ 1.8" is not recognized.
4) There are no automatic bid replacements or cancels. Posters must cancel previous bids if they so desire.

If posters follow those guidelines, it should work. However, I'm still tinkering and testing it, so let me know what bugs you run into. Also, it doesn't watch the date/time yet, so it will include bids posted after the auction's end.

Enjoy!