Project Anaconda Scanner and sources available for download

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desi-bartender

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I did the best I could on developing this program in the past couple of
months. Its now at a point where it works cleanly and most of the
source code is well documented.

If you know Java you can also improve it as you see fit as the source files are included too.

Its a 4Mb zip file so cannot post on this forum. You will have to e-mail
me at desibartender-scanner@yahoo.com and request the zip file. When
you do that make sure that your account can receive more that 4Mb of
attachments. Your Yahoo account allows you only 4Mb and Hotmail only
2Mb. Those are not going to fly. So better send me a account where you
can get large emails.

I posted this software on tripod but unfortunately they removed my page.

Let me know if you have any questions in this thread and I will try and
answer them here.

As of right now I am halting all development on Project Anaconda. It is
up to the people to take it and build on it. I will help you to understand things
better and maybe even help you debug my code.

Please
 
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Here is the source zip file split in to two

People seem to be still downloading this older version. I will update the
latest version which has bug fixes and several other improvements this
weekend. Will upload the zip file soon
 
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Feedback on my scanner needed

I know several people downloaded my scanner and tried it.
Would like to know the feedback on using this software.

I know that TSC folks are using my scanner and they had
a few questions. Some people had issues running them and
I was able to solve them over email.

I have made further changes to the scanner. Some of the minor
changes are as follows

1. Fixed the scan date. There was a bug which caused the scan
date to be written out in a bad format. I know also read the
scan date from the input file and for approved applications this
date is written to the output file as approved applications are
not scanned again.
2. Proxies are now sorted by speed (rank)
3. Limited the number of cases scanned when not using proxy to 250
as TSC folks ran this without changing the useProxies flag and were
wondering what was happenning. Everybody must read the README
4. You can now set the user agent so that your scanner might appear
as IE or Netscape to USCIS site.
5. The httpunit code which fetches the data from website is now
isolated in to a class. So when USCIS changes their website this is
the only class that needs to be touched.

Let me know if you are interested in the next version on my e-mail
and I will post it here. Any feedback and any features you think you
might need will also be appreciated.
 
Project Anaconda Scanner version 1.1

I am pretty much done testing my new version Project Anaconda Scanner.
The next version is 1.1
It has following changes

Most important change. Now if you provide a USCIS account info there is
a mode in the Project Anaconda scanner which will use that account to
fetch the case data. It will go to your account, add the case to the
account, get the Last Update Date and also the case details. So in this mode
you get extra information which is Last Update Date. This mode will work only
in non proxy mode right now. So you can only scan max 250 cases with it.

This is only meant for people to research their series for the LUD. Run a scan
everyday on your series and keep a daily report. It is very possible that
when you see an approval in your series you maybe able to go back to your
reports and find the LUDs for that app.

Other changes

1. Fixed the scan date. There was a bug which caused the scan
date to be written out in a bad format. I know also read the
scan date from the input file and for approved applications this
date is written to the output file as approved applications are
not scanned again.
2. Proxies are now sorted by speed (rank)
3. Limited the number of cases scanned when not using proxy to 250
as TSC folks ran this without changing the useProxies flag and were
wondering what was happenning. Everybody must read the README
4. You can now set the user agent so that your scanner might appear
as IE or Netscape to USCIS site.
5. The httpunit code which fetches the data from website is now
isolated in to a class. So when USCIS changes their website this is
the only class that needs to be touched.
6. This version writes out the good and badworking proxies used in a scan
to a file so that you can use them in future scans.
7. Allows you to enable scanning of approved and transferred cases if the
need be. This is handled with configuration key.
8. Log might be written to a file.


More important thing. I will not post the version here for download. Because
the zip file has to be broken in to two parts. Instead I will post it to your
Yahoo account or Gmail account as these accounts can handle 100Mb and
1Gb of quota. If you need the new version of the scanner just send me a
email at
desibartender-scanner@yahoo.com
I will compile a list and send everybody a mail next weekend.

I am also very disappointed to say that I don't think anybody has shown
any interest in pursuing any more development or improvement of my code.
Or maybe I am not aware of anybody making changes except a few people
at TSC. Maybe my scanner effort will just die down once I get approved.

Anyway, It is not much needed these days of speedy 485 approvals.

Expected date for getting the new version of scanner 26th June. Let me
know if you want any more enhancements or features. I will add them to
the todo list.
 
>>Why not host the project on sourceforge

Dude!!!

I think I have had enough with Project Anaconda. I only provide support
these days. :)
 
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