Hey Xarn, apply this patch!

--- progscrape.py    2010-07-26 13:42:46.000000000 +0200
+++ /tmp/progscrape.py    2010-07-27 11:00:18.991885078 +0200
@@ -299,8 +299,14 @@
 
 
         if verify_trips and len(tripv) > 0:
+            # We get 403 with long URLs
+            # if too many trips to check, fetch the whole thread
+            tripv_url = read_url + thread[0] + '/'
+            if len(tripv) < 200:
+                tripv_url += ','.join(tripv)
             try:
-                hp = urlopen(read_url + thread[0] + '/' + ','.join(tripv))
+                hp = urlopen(tripv_url)
 
             except:
                 print "Couldn't access HTML interface to verify tripcodes.",\


This will solve the 403 errors.

>>27
As written, the progress bar just goes up one line (using the ANSI console codes Xarn is so fond of) and prints some text. If each thread has its own progress bar that will be a bit of a mess.