Archiving as Tau Station has closed.
Subdirectories contain manually collected information. Each subdirectory is one system, and has further subdirectories for each station. In each station directory, there are the files
fuel-pricecontains a single line with the station's fuel price (at the collection point of time)*.htmlis the saved html for the different vendors at the station (not included in repo due to copyright worries)
vendors-to-csv.py
Arguments: a list of directories
Produces the file tau-vendors.csv, a spreadsheet with all the vendor item data from the given directories.
get-fuel-price-strategy.py
A horrible script that produces a strategy (in file fuel-price-strategy.csv) for estimating current
station fuel price (for stations that have vendors) based on items that are either available at a
single or at just two vendors. Requires tau-vendors.csv.
get-fuel-price-strategy-from-tracker.py
Similar, but doesn't require tau-vendors.csv. Instead pricing information is pulled from
the Tau Tracker service. Requires internet access.
run-fuel-price-strategy.py
Runs the strategy (read from fuel-price-strategy.csv) to estimate the current fuel price for each
station. Pass -v to show verbose output about the reasoning.
Note: needs internet access, as it queries https://taustation.space/item/..., one
query per station.
vendor-items.py
Extracts item slugs from tau-vendors.csv and prints them to stdout, one slug per line.
tauhead-items.py
Extracts item slugs from the JSON file tauhead-items.json (not included in this repo),
which can be obtained from Tauhead. Optional argument is the
path to the JSON file. Prints to stdout, one slug per line.
changelog-items.py
Extracts item slugs from links found in the changelogs from the Taustation Blog. Argument is the path to the HTML file with the changelog. Prints to stdout, one slug per line.
get-items.sh
Reads item slugs from stdin, and downloads the item page for each slug into
the subdirectory items (a rate limit is applied). Already existing items won't
be downloaded again, so to force updates you should remove the .html files from
the items directory.
items-to-csv.py
Must be run inside the items subdirectory. Produces one CSV file for each
item category, e.g. Weapon.csv, Armor.csv, etc. The fields included in the
CSV depend on the category. Note: for the Armor category, the fields named
"damage" actually refer to the defense stats.