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Is there any chance of a command line version of GoBattleSim in future?

First of all, thanks for creating GoBattleSim. I regularly use it and in my opinion, this is currently the best battle simulator for Pokemon Go.

But the task of giving input inside a browser is very tedious, especially when I am doing a lot of simulations back to back, changing inputs every time. I was wondering if a command line version can be released, so that we can write our own code to make it take input from existing text file or spreadsheet, do the more simulations in less time, get outputs in a more manageable way and do all sorts of analysis with it. I think the possibilities are endless if we go beyond the web frontend.

Thoughts?

Asked by onnyyonn6 years 8 months ago
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by Kazlu 6 years 8 months ago

Honestly wondered is this was a troll :)

Gamepress lives thanks to ads, so don't count on a command line version of their tools, which would promote usage of them without loading web pages and their ads.

Though all hope is not lost: I suggest you check out the URLs every time you use GoBattleSim. It's not completely obscure and that way you can write your code to create customized URLs which you can then pass on to your web browser for rendering. I have no idea for getting the outputs though.

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GoBattleSim has its batch input scheme, some special symbols to help with some of the changing input. You can also export the table to csv.

Now, if you are a developer, you can manipulate everything using the browser console. GoBattleSim is purely written in JavaScript and therefore all its source codes are loaded into your browser whenever you visit the page.

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