TCL Converter from the BoardGameGeek condensed preview list to CSV
- Install Tcl: https://www.tcl.tk/software/tcltk/
- Use Firefox (see "Known Issues" below)
- Download the BGG Preview Converter and unzip it to some folder
- Go to a BoardGameGeek preview list, e.g. https://boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/13/gen-con-2019-preview
- Switch to "Condensed View", e.g. https://boardgamegeek.com/geekpreview/13/gen-con-2019-preview?viewstyle=condensed
- Optional: Filter your selection, e.g. Must Have, Interested and Undecided
- Scroll down and click "Show all"
- Save the page as full html, e.g. as "gencon2019.html", in the folder of the unzipped BGG Preview Converter
- Open a terminal and navigate to the folder where you stored the the html and the converter
- Call "update_bgg_preview gencon2019.html > mylist.csv" (on Windows) or "./update_bgg_preview gencon2019.html > mylist.csv" (on Linux)
- Import mylist.csv in LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Excel etc., edit and save it if you like
- As steps 1 to 6 as before
- Call "update_bgg_preview gencon2019.html mylist.csv > mylist.csv" (on Windows) or "./update_bgg_preview gencon2019.html mylist.csv > mylist.csv" (on Linux)
- Import mylist.csv in LibreOffice, OpenOffice, Excel etc., edit and save it if you like
- Works only with Firefox because other browsers save a different kind of html.
- Do not add or remove new columns in the csv! Do not add a comma in the Comment column in csv!