fuckin' a. one question though: what do I put in the 'realm' box in quake live focus tab? does it allow me to connect to focus instead of using the traditional method if i want to? can't get it to work (I am a member of course:)).

The "realm" box is indeed intended for focus testers. Come in the focus IRC channel and I'll tell you what you have to put in there :)

Is there any chances to replace the server list with a box-style list just like before? If you don't want to, put it as an option then please...

For anyone having issues getting extraQL, please read here on why.


Search for "var config" in hook.js

Find these two lines below

BASE_URL: "http://127.0.0.1:27963/",
REMOTE_URL: "http://ql.beham.biz:27963/",

Now, the issue here is. Predathor has to use his localhost IP to test out his own script so he mistakenly made the script to run on Localhost. So unless you have a scripts/extraql in your home-server it won't work.

Now instead of wasting countless hours of fixing his script, we'll just do this.


BASE_URL: "http://ql.beham.biz:27963/",
REMOTE_URL: "http://ql.beham.biz:27963/",

--

I was having an issue with scripts and the whole script itself not working until I changed this. Then it all worked, you're welcome!

The local host IP (127.0.0.1) is there on full purpose. This port is hosted by extraQL.exe and hook.js will first try to load scripts from your local instance.

If there is no extraQL.exe running on your machine, it will fall back to my beham.biz server where I have a public instance running. There is no 24/7 guarantee for that and when my server fails, your hook.js can't load any scripts.

I guess the real cause was some character encoding / UTF-8 byte-order-mark issue with the hook.js file, which got fixed by your editor, when you saved the file again. The change of the BASE_URL should not have been necessary.

My friend messaged me saying he was having issues starting it up, he said he used extraQL first and it didn't work then he manually updated the hook.js and then tried again, still nothing. Then he said he instead used the launcher and noticed a message saying that it didn't load because it couldn't connect to extraQL's server.

I don't know what happened there, but after I did that for him it seemed to have worked.

My apologies, I should've read the Wiki but he came to be randomly about it. I'll revert the changes on the file and see if it still works. Thanks for responding!

EDIT #1: I just quickly changed the file and it says that there's an error connecting to the server on his screen.

PredatH0r, I don't know if you get a lot praise but you definitely deserves it. So thank you very much kind sir for this.

The script works, but every time I launch it or quit I get the error:

"An error has occured while saving your settings:
System.Configuration.ConfigurationErrorsException: Failed to save settings: An error occured loading a configuration file: Could not find a part of the path 'C:/Users/myname/AppData/Local/ExtraQL/extraQL.exe_Url_cmn45uhn2mhmrj5xpuagrxl3ycc5lidv/1.0.0.0/gprx_lti.tmp'."

There's like 20 more lines... but I can't copy paste

So far i've only seen that happen under Linux/Wine when there was more than one extraQL Window open.

If this keeps happening, try deleting C:/Users/myname/AppData/Local/ExtraQL

Next time it will start with the default settings again

What's your OS?

Exact same thing happens for me. I don't even have an %APPDATA%/Local/ExtraQL o_O

Same situation here. Windows 7 Ultimate 64bit SP1

Just place it where your config is that is where it is supposed to go.

In same folder or not, still happens.. Windows 7 64bit

Magically it appears to work without any effort today. Not sure what happened.

Where did you unpack the stuff? I had the problem yesterday and ended up only overwriting the hook.js.

It's sitting in a folder on my desktop called extraQL

In Version 0.106 settings are now stored in a .ini file in the same directory as extraQL.exe.

I have no idea why the default .NET method doesn't work for you, but that should fix the problem.

Good job man!

How to filter modified servers? PQL fx.

Game Type Picker is sometimes unloaded when enabling/disabling other scripts.

I forgot. Props for you for taking over for QLHM. I think everyone appreciates it.

Yes the textbox filter to remove keywords was magic, miss that :<
could filter out servers with inputting "madrid" or modifications with "mod"

Exactly.

I need this!

Agreed. I had a lovely list of non-full, non-empty, non-modded servers, filtered by such keywords. As a bonus, it would be great if it could filter by the player names currently on the servers.

wow great work. id should hire you.

haha, funny :D

Really good stuff, if you got any bugs to report or suggestions, you can report them in the discussion section.


I made a suggestion:

http://sourceforge.net/p/extraql/discussion/g.../2487c5da/


if you're having issue with the EXE from the zip, just place the hook.js in your baseq3 folder instead, along with your config etc

Well my shiet was working fine in the morning, and now its not. I just shut it down, tried starting it up again and now its not wroking. I wants my extraQL

All I can say is...


you are fucking awesome!

Update works like a charm, really cool feature. But on closing extraQL.exe I have bad error message, but who cares. I only use it to update my hook.js.

Btw, what are all those scripts in the script folder for? There arent that many scripts available in QL itself. And the image folder? What happens when I only use hook.js without extraql.exe?

Anyway, you are the man. Plussed hard.

/e: Also, make a script for old match browser maybe? ))

My virtual server was offline for some time today due to a system malfunction at my hoster's site. If you didnt run your own instance of extraQL.exe, userscripts failed to load.

I'm sorry for the inconvenience and will try to find a way to make the system more robust.

Now the good news:
- Layout Resizer script is now working fine (resizing chat, server browser, pushing stuff from center to the side when the window is small, ...)
- QLRanks.com Display script allows you to click on the scores in the server details to open the QLRanks profile page in your browser

So with .exe scripts will work all day long no matter what?

yes, the .exe doubles as a laucher and script-server for QL.

Here's a brief overview of how it works:

hook.js loads the scripts from the HTTP server built into extraQL.exe. It will try your find one on your localhost first, and if there's none, it will connect to my server. If that one is down too...no scripts available.

When extraQL.exe is started, whether by you on your machine or me on my server, it will update its "scripts" directory with the latest script versions on sourceforge.

After that, the .exe delivers a script inventory and the script files to hook.js when requested.

If you ever need a blowjob - call me :*

`N0 hom0 tho

#nohomo4life

Works great, thx. :)

So if I understand correctly you can't use this without connecting to your personal webserver or running an external program. I'm not keen on using either. Implementing a way to load scripts locally would be much appreciated.

That's impossible.
The Javascript sandbox prohibits any scripts (including hook.js) from accessing your file system. The only way to get scripts and data into the sandbox is by requesting it from a server. And even there are dozens of security hoops.
I'm lazy, I'm not making this more complicated than I have to.

That's OK. I'd rather wait (forever) for a well-made manager by someone competent than use something as lazy, unreliable, and hacked together as this.

pussy

Thanks. This is very cool. Can the Quake streams be played inside QL though?

The streams are played in your normal browser. After all, Quakelive is still a game, not a video player :)

great work

This looks awesome. How did you manage to make them streams/vods preview pics available (and they load so fast) in few words? Did you use some twitch API for that?

Yep, i used the twitch API for that. I was also surprised that the pictures load so fast.
My source code: http://sourceforge.net/p/extraql/source/ci/ma...tch.usr.js

shit looks nice!

Also, for some reason I can't record demos anymore with extraQL opening up Launcher.exe. It seems like it messes up some permissions for the subfolders in /home/baseq3. Anyway, no extraQL for me until all these bugs are fixed.

I dont know where you get your ideas from, but extraQL doesn't change ANY folder permissions.

I guess you are having trouble to play back demos, when you start in windowed mode and a script switches to fullscreen.
This is a bug in the QL engine.

Just make sure you are already in full-screen when you start the demo. If you want to watch demos in window mode, either disable the "Game Start AutoExec/FullScreen" script, or change the settings under "Userscripts / AutoExec".

what http server does this thing look for?
from a quick skim of the code it's a static http server with CORS?

i'm asking because we can set up some mirrors

ps:
assuming you intend to support extraql

As discussed on IRC, I'm more than happy to add more servers to make the system more robust.

I already added client-side script caching, so in case no server is available, it will use whatever version you last received. Some scripts that require online access might not work properly though, if there is no extraQL.exe server available (either locally or remote)

so a few points from the discussion in case anyone else cares:

- i didn't know about the client cache.

I already added client-side script caching, so in case no server is available, it will use whatever version you last received.

- you can run your local extraQL.exe if you want an alternative server.

- mirrors can still be useful, but at the cost of increasing the complexity of the project. if script writers don't sign their scripts, a malicious mirror owner can modify them and ruin PredatH0r's credibility.

Where can I download the script or the extraQL.exe????? There is no link or download button but only a declaring of it !!

https://sourceforge.net/projects/extraql/files/

http://sourceforge.net/projects/extraql/files...p/download
Here?
Find the Launcher path and everything will be fine.

please use wn's link, you'll always see the latest version there.
pacmanpl's link points to version 0.106, which - as of right now - is not the latest version anymore :)

A BIG THANK TO: wn , pacmanpl and PredatH0r !!! Because everytime if I'm searchin I was sended to this site here or the old QLHM site were the crazy 2 .zip files are. Thx for the fast responses !!

Version 0.107 is available since last night. You can find the change log if you scroll down on the download page.

If you run into any trouble, please either
- contact me on quakenet IRC channel #qlhm (or PM me)
- post something in the extraQL Forum on sourceforge
- send me an email to predathor@gmx.at

Please also make sure you have the latest version installed.
Issues may arise when you use an old version of hook.js that's incompatible with the version of extraQL.exe on my webserver.

There is no more way to filter server's locations?

It was very useful to me :>

That was a feature of the "New Alt Browser" script, that has not been updated yet to work with the new site design.

wn, the script author, is looking into it.

thx for reply and for your great work !

like QLHM, it doesn't work unless i do web_reload. is there a fix for this?

also shouldn't a lot of these scripts be default? like autoinvite, friend commands, chatbeep, or qlranks? a lot of people don't know how or can't be bothered to look at each script to enable and these being default would improve QL a lot.

I've heard that some users have problems with QLHM/extraQL and need to /web_reload. From what I heard so far, QL seems to not start the hook.js file under certain conditions. That's code inside the game engine though, where I dont have any control over.

The first time extraQL is started (when no configuration is found), it will enable all the scripts. After that, it will remember which ones you selected.

It's possible that scripts got deactivated while my server was offline. Starting with extraQL/hook.js 0.106 this shouldn't happen anymore.

I have to /web_reload as well to get the hooks to work. This is what I have noticed...

If I completely restart extraQL and login again the hooks work, but if I leave extraQL open and log into QL again I have to /web_reload to get the hooks to work.

At one point I created a one-line "hook.js" that simply outputted a message. Sometimes it ran, and sometimes it didn't. My best guesses are that there is either: a bug in Awesomium (what QL uses for the Web stuff in-game), an issue with how it's being used to inject the script, or some other JavaScript sporadically causing problems.

*edit* Actually, I dug up what I used and was mistaken. Here was the code:

localStorage.wntest = "foo"; function main_hook() { localStorage.wntest = "foo2"; }

Sometimes "main_hook" (the "official" QL injection point for custom JS) was called, setting the value to "foo2", and sometimes it was not. Perhaps some other JavaScript is sporadically causing problems.

this working or detected?

hä???

don't join secure servers with this. IT IS VAC DETECTED AND YOU WILL BE BANNED.

's dat U? :)

Request: feature to be able to see the average elos of both teams while in-game.

The program is awesome and I like the extra tabs for twitch, esr, etc.

I usually use http://quakehub.com/ when looking for streams or VODs.. is there any plan (or would there be interest) to provide some integration with this site directly in extraQL?

No plans. It's a great site indeed, but I don't see how an integration should look like. Live stream and VODs are already in the Twitch tab.
If you miss stream archives or VODs from certain channels, you can edit the scripts/twitch.usr.js file and add the channel names. I only put channels in there that are Quake-only.
(Modifying scripts only works if you use extraQL.exe locally on your PC)

does not work after the update?

If you mean the new site design update, extraQL works just fine with it.
All you need is to start the extraQL.exe or install the new hook.js file manually.

There are a few scripts that have not been coverted to the new layout yet, like the popular "New Alt Browser".

You can download extraQL from http://sourceforge.net/projects/extraql/files/

extraql worked properly until yesterday, after yesterday's update it's not working on my ql

i'll try to reinstall it

Are you running extraQL.exe locally or just the hook.js file?
Did re-installing fix the problem?

yeah, now it's ok

i'm playing on linux+wine (...) and i need to start quakelive with
taskset 0x01 wine /home/user/.wine/dosdevices/c\:/Program\ Files\ \(x86\)/Quake\ Live/Launcher.exe
to force it to use one core.

right now i'm starting extraql.exe first and then separately run the launcher after that to get the scripts to work. is there a different way to achieve this?

you could just put the hook.js in the same folder as your cfgs and then forget the extraql launcher?

I could remove the File.Exists(...) check for the entered path and just run whatever is in the text field as a command line.

I prefer that people use the .exe for many reasons:
- it keeps hook.js updated
- it loads the scripts from the local HDD, which avoids connection problems
- web requests to external sites (like ESR) are sent directly from your computer and not tunneled through my server (which again avoids connection problems and CPU/network load on my server)
- you have a local, readable copy of the scripts and can modify them if you like (b/c most scripts don't have a config dialog)

- web requests to external sites (like ESR) are sent directly from your computer and not tunneled through my server (which again avoids connection problems and CPU/network load on my server)

uh, why? you said hook.js can't pull things locally, but esr/twitter aren't local anyway.

Like any web browser, the javascript sandbox inside QL enforces the so called "same origin policy" that prevents javascript code to load data from any other domains than its own origin. The QL engine executes hook.js and indirectly all userscripts with an origin domain of "www.quakelive.com".

There are a few ways to overcome this constraint, but all of them require explicit help from the targeted webserver. One such technique is called CORS (cross origin resource sharing), where the target web server must explicitly tag the returned data with a special HTTP header field, otherwise the javascript sandbox will block the result.

The ESR website does not send that header, so hook.js cannot directly pull data from ESR. The ESR userscript will therefore ask extraQL.exe, which runs outside the sandbox, to load the data on its behalf. extraQL.exe does send those HTTP headers, so the script can receive the data.

Lots of hoops to jump through...

Edit:
hook.js cannot load files from your HDD nor can it load data from arbitrary websites. That's where extraQL.exe jumps in - either locally on your PC or on my webserver (which is not considered arbitrary because it allows access by sending the CORS HTTP headers).
hook.js uses extraQL.exe to get
- a list of available scripts
- the script source code that will be executed
- the latest hook.js sourcecode from sourceforge to check for updates (but it cannot update itself b/c it has no access to your file system)
- relay HTTP requests to servers which do not support CORS or JSONP (like esreality.com or sourceforge.net)

The "Window Docker" script also uses your local extraQL.exe to resize/relocate the QL window based on your windows desktop size. That stuff requires calls to the Win32 API, which is not possible from within javascript.

While javascript cannot access your file system, HTML5 provides a so called "Local Storage" system, that allows javascript code to store data (not files) on your PC. That's the stuff inside the QL "home/Local Storage" directory. Newer versions of hook.js use that local storage to cache the last received script list and source code, so in case my server is down, it will use those cached scripts.

you might've misunderstood me, i (would) prefer using your .exe for all the reasons you stated. what i need is some, like you said, text field that acts as a command line input.

you already replied to yakumo, soo... yes, i could put the hook.js in my folder, but that's not the point ;)

ps.:

this will not be of your concern right now, but the extraQL launcher looks horrible in wine. three out of four checkboxes have nothing but gibberish next to them (the one for focus works), the "Advanced" one works after a mouseover. i'm also unable to close it using the X.

Version 0.109 now has the new option "Run as Command Line" under "Advanced". If it is selected, extraQL will start Launcher.exe via the entered command line.

The complete change log:
- automatically click on "Play" in the QL Launcher
- allow user defined command line for starting Launcher.exe
- removing eventual read-only flag before updating hook.js
- activate already running extraQL.exe when a 2nd instance is started accidentally

thank you! :)

I rikey rots! Thumbs up!

Thank you for the Focus integration...Makes it so much better!

Uhm, 1.4 broke something and I'm getting this error msg:

System.Security.CryptographycException: The specified network password is not correct.

Then 30 more rows of error codes.

Probably want to switch back to 1.3 for now. That error message is related to the addition of HTTPS support.

This problem seems to affect Windows XP and 2003 only.
I already found a workaround and will add that to version 1.5.

I will also add an auto-update for extraQL.exe itself, so that in the future you dont have to download every new .exe manually. This is still work in proress though.

Nope. That was on Win7 x64. Good work overall, but please test it once or maybe twice before releasing a new version every day...

It's not like that I don't test what I'm doing... but I don't have a QA department nor the resources or time to test the program on every conceivable system configuration. I started 1.4 probably 100 times during development, without any issues on my Win 8.1 or Ubuntu.

1.5 is now available with the mentioned Crypto-API fix for XP/2003. Please let me know if that solved your problem.
That version is now able to update itself to newer versions, so you don't have to bother with manual downloads anymore.

It's failing again. I'm still on Win7 x64.

Program failure
System.Security.Cryptography.CryptographicException: Access denied.

Then 17 rows of error codes about the https certificate or something.

Tested it now on Win8.1/64/German, Win7 Ultimate/64/English, WinXP SP3 32/German and Ubuntu 14.04 on 3 different machines - all working fine.

Nevertheless I made some changes in 1.6 which should help you. I'm no longer initializing the Crypto API when not needed (e.g. HTTPS off) and I also added a parameter to the init call, which might(!) do the trick.

Can you please try and start 1.6, enable and then disable HTTPS again? Are you getting an error message in that case?

Thx a lot for your help and patience!

Ok, I found the problem. Obvious to some, but anyway, you can't run the .exe (or any exe) in any %APPDATA% folders or subfolders. I was extracting it in /baseq3. Palm-to-face.

any chance for an option to autoupdate?

Will be part of 1.5

extraQL is awesome, thanks for the hard work!

Hey! Thanks for updating the userscripts ! One thing that is missing from the old browser is to see exactly how much time is left on a ongoing game. Currently it only says "warmup" or "In progress", is there anyway you guys can put the countdown clock there like before? Thanks!

Great work :)

There's a bug in the QLranks script though, when I try to /elo shuffle! it displays to optimal teams, but uppon trying to swap players around it yells 'unknown cmd undefined' and thus doesnt work.
I am opped while trying to do this.

It's fixed now in script version 1.105.

Awesome, great work :D