jmatth/dextools

Unofficial frontend for Double Exposure conventions

Dextools

Dextools is a collection of tools for parsing and displaying convention schedules from Double Exposure. It currently consists of two components:

1. A scraper that takes in the schedule's HTML and produces a JSON file.
2. A web frontend for displaying the JSON with convenient search features, a calendar view for building your own personal schedule for the convention, and export options for producing an ics file or email text to sign up for your selected events.

Dextools is currently hosted at dextools.app.

Technology

The scraper is written in Rust with various crates for parsing HTML and working with times, etc.

The web frontend is written in Vue.js with Vuex and Vuetify.

dextools's Issues

Recognize HI-TEST games and label them in the UI

Add option to disable export to email

Parse start and end dates from the site

Right now you need to specify the start and end dates manually when running the scraper, but they're actually present on the webpage.

Tabbed view on mobile

Add import/export URLs

It would be convenient to be able to create a url that, when opened on other devices, displayed agenda and offered the option to import it. Ideally this feature would:

• Offer the option to export to URL or QR code
• Display the exported schedule in the calendar view when the URL is opened
• Display some prominent warning or error out if the provided URL does not correspond to the current convention

ICS export broken on iOS third-party browsers

Safari works fine, but FF and Brave both just display the raw text of the ICS blob.

Add configuration to frontend

Update the order of elements in the advanced filter dialog

They should be ordered in the most convenient way to navigate via the keyboard, then positioned more conveniently via the various order props in the vuetify grid system.

More search functionality

Including but not limited to:

• Hide filled
• Hide conflicting

Scrape the site directly

Right now it reads a file from disk, but should really just pull the site directly via http.

Add dark mode toggle

Vuetify 2 added the ability to dynamically switch between light and dark modes. It would be nice to allow users to toggle between the two, and ideally cache the setting to browser local storage.

Add button to open info dialog to event list items

Add Metatopia fields to advanced search

Warn about overlapping calendar events

Add configuration for daylight savings cutover

This will be necessary if Metatopia ever runs over the end of daylight savings again. According to the current schedule that won't happen till at least Metatopia 2021 though.

Prompt for user's name for export to email

Make EventsList work with keyboard navigation

The EventsList component is currently implemented using a virtual scroller. This allows the filter operations to run at an acceptable speed but causes some issues with keyboard navigation:

1. Navigation order does not follow the visual order of elements in the list.
2. Navigating to the end of the list does not cause new elements to render, so the entire list cannot be traversed.

Fix scraper compile warnings

Persisting username is broken

Update help dialog

With some of the other changes, it is not currently accurate.

Script the entire process of scraping and deploying

So it can be run on a cron eventually.

Service worker infinite load loop in Safari on iOS

Make regexes work with metatopia

Looks like the format for events is more than a bit different for Metatopia. Need to update the matches or create new ones.

https://www.dexposure.com/m2018complete.html

Make some fields arrays

Authors, presenters, etc.

Base ISC filename off of event + year

Fix scaling issues

The height shouldn't be hardcoded :/

Decouple scraper output and UI config

The scraper shouldn't have to know about every config parameter to the UI. For a quick fix it's probably good enough to have the scraper read in a "template" json file and insert it's event array into a provided key in that file. It would perhaps be better to have two completely separate files in the frontend but that would make automated deploys a bit trickier.

Fix borrow issues in scraper

Currently it's worked around with a janky boolean flag.

Remove link underlines on iOS

Add tooltip to lock icon

Events crossing day boundaries display incorrectly

In the calendar view, if an event starts on one day but ends the following day, only the portion on the first day will display. The section of the event that should run from midnight to the end on the second day just doesn't render.

Add feedback link

There should be a configurable link that allows users to submit anonymous feedback, probably through a google form or typeform.

Include infomation about linked events

Make JSON output sorted

Changing to use a template config had the unintended side effect of making the keys in the output get written in a weird order. It should be sorted in some logical way to make it more human readable.

Sort events chronologically

The schedule is currently stored and displayed in the order it appears on the site, which doesn’t directly correspond to the order in which events take place during the con. Not sure if we should sort the list before writing it out in the scraper or just preprocess it in the frontend. Probably the second one.

Update clap to v3

Fix overlapping calendar events

Show popup for new version

Instead of just hard refreshing the page automatically. This seems to cause a redirect loop in browsers with certain anti-tracking features.

Clicking a calendar event should open an info popup

Currently it just deletes it from the agenda.

Generate and link text-only schedule

Double Exposure currently provides text-only versions of the schedule on request via email. It should be easy enough generate our own version either in the scraper or dynamically on the website and add it to the site navigation.

Fix refresh loop in duck duck go mobile browser

Possibly on other browsers with enhanced privacy features as well.

Make the calendar view work with screen readers

Currently the calendar view is annoying to step through with a screen reader and it's not evident that events can be clicked on to open the event info dialog. Unclear whether this would require upstream changes.

Remove @types/node from dependencies

Something broke upstream so a specific version of this package was added to package.json to fix the build. Whenever the relevant upstream packages get fixed this should be removed.

Make day offset configurable

Recognize different metatopia session types and display them in the UI

BETA TEST, ALPHA TEST, FOCUS GROUP, possibly others.

Last year's schedule is at https://www.dexposure.com/m2018complete.html for reference.

Fix events that end at midnight in the calendar view

Currently if an event ends at midnight it will appear at the very top of the next day. This should really be fixed upstream in vuetify but can be done at this level by telling the component that such events end 1 second before midnight and overriding the event div contents to not reflect that change.

Parse "See Also" text

In either the scraper or just the frontend.

Make dialogs fullscreen on mobile devices

Support caching HTTP headers in the scraper

Optimize List Updates

Filters take forever to update because the list of events is close to a thousand items. Using vue-virtual-scroller might help with this.