XPost: alt.comp.os.windows-10, alt.comp.software.firefox   
   From: marion@facts.com   
      
   On Fri, 24 Jan 2025 18:03:06 -0000 (UTC), Marion wrote :   
      
      
   > Amazon told me they only select one out of a million of their customers to   
   > be invited to the Amazon Vine program, so I'm not normal in that sense.   
      
   Oops. Too many zeros. One out of about ten-thousand customers. My bad.   
   While we're correcting mistakes, here's the Vine script for all to benefit.   
      
   The miserable part was escaping all the special characters in the URIs.   
      
      @echo off   
      REM 20240124 addvine.bat adds Amazon/Vine search links to global HTML   
      setlocal   
      setlocal EnableDelayedExpansion   
      
      REM #1 set your favorite text HTML editor   
      REM set editor=notepad++   
      set editor=gvim   
      
      REM #2 set the location of your global vine search file   
      set vinefile=C:\path\to\your\global\search\link\html\file\vine.htm   
      if not exist "%vinefile%" (   
        echo.The file "%vinefile%" does not exist. Exiting...   
        pause   
        goto :END   
       ) else (   
         echo.Global Vine HTML search file is %vinefile%   
         )   
      
      :input_item   
      echo.Enter search item: ; for example, gas camp stove   
      set /p "item="   
      
      :replace_spaces_with_+   
      set "amazon_item=%item: =+%"   
      
      :replace_spaces_with_%20   
      set "vine_item="   
      for %%a in (%item%) do (   
        if "%%a"=="" (   
          set "vine_item=!vine_item!%%20"   
        ) else (   
          if defined vine_item (   
            set "vine_item=!vine_item!%%20"   
          )   
          set "vine_item=!vine_item!%%a"   
        )   
      )   
      
      echo Original item: %item%   
      echo    Amazon item: %amazon_item%   
      set vine_item=!vine_item!   
      echo    Vine item: %vine_item%   
      echo.Adding... "%amazon_item%" and "!vine_item!" to %vinefile%   
      
      :append_html   
      echo.^ >> %vinefile%   
      echo.^[vine]   
   %item%^^ >> %vinefile%   
      echo.^[amazon]    
   item%^^ >> %vinefile%   
      echo.^ >> %vinefile%   
      
      set /p repeat=Do you want to add another search term? [y/n]:   
      if %repeat%== y goto input_item   
      if not %repeat%== y goto edit_html   
      
      :edit_html   
        echo Do you want to edit the global vine HTML file? [y/n]   
        set /p "choice="   
        if /i "%choice%"=="y" (   
          echo Editing file: %vinefile%   
          %editor% %vinefile%   
        ) else if /i "%choice%"=="n" (   
          echo File editing canceled.   
      )   
      
      END:   
      endlocal   
      exit /B 0   
   --   
   As always, this is to help others now, and far into the future.   
      
   --- SoupGate-DOS v1.05   
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