FRCLinks updated

FIRST General Forum
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Hey folks,

I recently did a complete rewrite of FRCLinks and fixed all the links that were broken by FIRST’s deprecation of the “lasso” pages. Also, if typing frclinks.com/t/254 wasn’t already short enough for you, there’s a new domain you can use: frc.link/t/254.

See the frc.link homepage for the complete list of shortcuts. If you have an idea for a new one, create an issue or pull request on https://github.com/patfair/frclinks2. (If you have no idea what FRCLinks is, take a look at the original announcement thread from nine years ago.)

The new version should be slightly more performant and reliable; it has been migrated off of Google App Engine to a private server. If you have hardcoded links to frclinks.appspot.com or frclinks.frclinks.com in a web page somewhere, don’t worry; they will continue redirecting to the new version indefinitely.

  • Pat
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Thanks for your work Pat

I think there’s a bug in the /t/region switch. I want to compare year over year growth in Ontario, but none of these work afaik:
/t/on-canada
/t/on-canada/2017
/t/on
/t/ontario
/t/mi (sanity check)

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There’s a difference in how FIRST’s new area search works that prompted a change in the FRCLinks interface. Try frc.link/t/Canada/ON or frc.link/t/USA/CA, or just frc.link/t/Mexico to search at the country level.

(There’s also some weirdness in how the FIRST website interprets that URL – if you see strange results or repeated teams at first, try refreshing.)

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1869 results!

You’re not kidding. Fixed when I refreshed.

Oddly, the country and province appear to be case sensitive, and the year code doesn’t fit anymore? I can fix it after I arrive at the firstinspires site. I miss getting the results in a table though, which I could paste into a spreadsheet. Maybe I should actually learn the API

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You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Pat Fairbank again.

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Pat, can you make the links shorter?

f.rc thanks

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I know you’re kidding, but there is no .rc TLD that I could find. There is a .cl TLD (for Chile), so you could potentially get fr.cl if you wanted.

But frc.link is fine already, if you ask me.

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