cgeo/c-geo-opensource — Issue #760: Parse cache data from html file
Author: Monokel
Created: 2011-11-07 09:22:43+00:00
State: open

As far as I've seen, cache data for offline use is currently either spidered online from the gc website or imported from gpx-files.

Have you already thought of importing cache data from the saved html-page of a cache detail site? You would save the cache detail site as html page, put it in the .cgeo folder on the sdcard and let cgeo import it from there without contacting the gc site at all. This way, the gc site would not be spidered with your login data and you do not have to create a pocket query. You just open the cache you like in your browser and use the "Save Page" - "Html only" feature of the browser.

Of yourse, this is only practicable if you don't want to import dozens of caches. But for getting the details of a few caches this is a fast and secure method.

(I got the cgeo source code and did a proof-of-concept implementation, which works great for me. I did not create a pull request because I possibly have overlooked something in the implementation and because I'm new to the git cvs and the whole project).