User blog:Coax75ohm/Bot status and adding categorization

For future reference in case I disappear or something like that, the source code for the unit list bot is now available on github. It's written in Perl and uses a modified version of the MediaWiki::Bot module. Wikia has their own "special" version of MediaWiki that uses an ancient version of the API, so there was some cursing and hair pulling involved in getting the bot to run.

Still need to find hosting for the bot so it will run periodically without me having to mess with it. Looks like the good free shells require hanging out on IRC until people vouch for you in order to get an account. So guess I'll have start lurking freenode again.

Also thinking about adding some sort of skill categorization to this, since it's already grabbing every unit page. So for example, on the Rush page it would be nice to have subcategories that point to the specific skills such as Brutally_slams_one_enemy. I'll also probably have it protect the skill category pages. Any comments or additional things to add?