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I Have a program that is basically a browser that only opens pages from your domain.

Once a thread is loaded into the browser, it will surf through all of the posts and extract out all of the individual posters, how many times they posted and to which posts they were replying to.

With this data set, I can do all sorts of neat stuff. I can create ping lists for the thread, I can save and name ping lists, I can sniff out trolls by looking at the tool tip etc etc etc...

Its a pet project written in C# .NET...I want to make it an IE tool bar add in for FR users.

I can get the info now by looking at the number of posts listed at the top of the page, so its no big deal.

An example would be a regular FR user who has posted a thread and it now has oh say 225 posts. He wants to update all of those who posted on his thread with an update of information via a new message post.

Instead of tediously going through the thread and cutting and pasting names, he would simply invoke the tool from any page of the post, and the device then gets each page internally, parses the source strings, and extracts a single instance of each user who posted to the thread. The info is copied to the clip board properly formatted to do a ping post.

The user might also only want to ping the regulars of a lengthy thread. He would then set a filter threshhold for users who have posted >X posts...

It would really be great to be able to pull a stream of all of the posts for a thread...then it wouldn't have to open multiple pages virtually speaking...Stuff like that...

Cheers

Ah, in my new URLs, there will be a page #, you should be able to walk through all the page #s seqentially until you get a 404 Not found. But I don't think its a good idea to autoping every poster to a thread. We used to have it. I disabled that feature years ago because of popular complaint. You used to be able to address a post to "all" to ping everybody on the thread.

You'd like the API stuff I want to do. Are you familiar with the C# .NET libraries for parsing JSON (JavaScript Object Notation)? Basically, I want to use JSON (rather than XML) because my API is specifically intended to be used in client-side Ajax-style JavaScript, and there is no more natural encoding to JavaScript code than JavaScript data.