How to create a list of caches that a trackable has visited

[+tbruihler]

The backstory:

Years ago when our son was a toddler I created an account for him, and logged caches for  him that he found with me so he would have something to look back on someday to see where he had visited. I soon got tired of "double logging" every cache find. I created a trackable for him, and used it to "visit" the caches instead, with the intention that some day if he continued to enjoy the hobby he would know what caches he found and could go back and log them when he was old enough to self-log.

 

My question:

He is now old enough and has the desire to go back and log his finds on his own. Is there a way to create a "list" or search caches that a trackable has visited? I know you can see the cache it has visited on the trackable page, but it is very difficult and time consuming to log caches using this method.

 

Any ideas on how to go about this? 

[+HHL]

39 minutes ago, tbruihler said:

very difficult and time consuming to log caches using this method.

Right. How many caches have to be logged that way?

[+tbruihler]

7 minutes ago, HHL said:

Right. How many caches have to be logged that way?

Around 5-600.

[+HHL]

2 hours ago, tbruihler said:

Around 5-600.

That's a lot, indeed.

[+HHL]

Here is your list:

The Toddler's List (click here)

... and the belonging Field Notes file:

The Toddler's Field Notes (click here)

 

Have Fun

Hans

 

Edited January 4 by HHL

[+tbruihler]

That's really impressive.

 

Now I have got to ask....how did you come up with that?

 

 

[+thebruce0]

If you're good at code, there are quick custom ways

 

If you view the map of the TB's travels, it includes the entire list of caches visited (no paging).

 

One option is to take the source code of the page, push it through some complex regex replacement (shoutout notepad++) and reduce the html source to a plain list of tb 'visits' by GC code. Then do with that as you please.

[+HHL]

7 hours ago, thebruce0 said:

One option is to take the source code of the page, push it through some complex regex replacement (shoutout notepad++) and reduce the html source to a plain list of tb 'visits' by GC code. Then do with that as you please.

That's the way I did it.

[+HHL]

15 hours ago, tbruihler said:

Now I have got to ask....how did you come up with that?

Sorry for the delay. But we have a timezone problem (I'm on UTC+1)

 

1. First I call the TB's map page.

2. Open the source page (Ctrl-U) and copy the entire page.

3. Run the GSAK macro GrabByCode (click here) The macro* either grabs caches by finding codes from the clipboard (hit Yes) or just copies back a list of codes (hit No).

4. Field Notes are generated by different available GSAK macros.

* the macro works with any source that contains GCcodes.

 

Hans

Edited January 5 by HHL
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