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Is it possible to generate a small random set of tags, or is it possible to have a thing to do so?
Posted on: 04/26/15 05:02PM
I had an idea with a friend to get the best set of tags via RNG, such as picking 7 random tags of all the tags that exist, but is it possible to generate tags in such a manner at all? It seems there's no way to do it, from what I see :<
Posted on: 04/26/15 06:19PM
IDMcheez said:
I had an idea with a friend to get the best set of tags via RNG, such as picking 7 random tags of all the tags that exist, but is it possible to generate tags in such a manner at all? It seems there's no way to do it, from what I see :<
I had an idea with a friend to get the best set of tags via RNG, such as picking 7 random tags of all the tags that exist, but is it possible to generate tags in such a manner at all? It seems there's no way to do it, from what I see :<
Tags are alpha-numeric so...
gelbooru.com/index.php?pa...sort=asc&order_by=tag
Maybe putting 2 random alpha-numeric characters here followed by an asterisk (ab*) using a specific sort order might get you something very psudo-random.
Posted on: 04/26/15 08:22PM
The fact that it's going to be sorted means it isn't really going to be very random. You could choose a random index from that.
On the other hand, in the past when I've iterated through the entire tag listing (yes, the entire thing, every single tag that exists) doing something like what Jedi suggested, I had to go 3 or even 4 characters deep before it'd actually return anything, so you'll probably have to account for that. Also keep in mind that not all tags start with two alphanumeric characters, even though in theory they should.
On the other hand, in the past when I've iterated through the entire tag listing (yes, the entire thing, every single tag that exists) doing something like what Jedi suggested, I had to go 3 or even 4 characters deep before it'd actually return anything, so you'll probably have to account for that. Also keep in mind that not all tags start with two alphanumeric characters, even though in theory they should.
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