[Patch] Forge inline card image acquirer

[ShoujoQ]

Doesn't work with JOU and KTK cards for some reason, eg. Battlefield Thaumaturge and Icy Blast.

Running 1.5.38 on Windows 7.

[jkarlsson]

Sadly, since mtgimage was shutdown this patch does not work at all. I gave in and downloaded all images and moved on.

[ShoujoQ]

Sadly, since mtgimage was shutdown this patch does not work at all. I gave in and downloaded all images and moved on.

I did that too and it still didn't download anything from these sets.

A shame you can't just scrape them from Gatherer.

[Myrd]

I just landed a patch that implements auto card fetching in a way that avoids some of the problems of the original patch.

It uses the card picture URL that's in Forge's card DB, e.g.:

SVar:Picture:http://www.wizards.com/global/images/magic/general/sun_titan.jpg

It's the same parameter that's used by Forge's LQ card downloader. If a card does not work, it's possible it's a problem with the URL in the text file for the card.

[friarsol]

Hey Myrd,

I've temporarily disabled the Fetcher for this upcoming release, just so we can get some more structure around it. I've seen a few people concerned about it's "always on" state, so we probably want it to be settable as a preference. For now I'd recommend it as opt-in, but maybe you can convince me it should be opt-out.

[friarsol]

This looks like it isn't working anymore. Magiccards.info is sending a "file closed unexpectedly" or "reached end of file" or something like that.