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Simplified List of ALL Portable Apps hosted here?

Posted: Thu Aug 26, 2021 3:19 pm
by buigley45
Sorry if this is already being discussed elsewhere, but I can't find any mention of the topic.

Is it possible to download or export a simplified listing of all the apps hosted here? I realize it would be out of date quickly, but it would help me start to organize my own collection.

My reason is I have a ton of portable apps, about half from here and most of the rest from PortableApps.com. Those are automatically updated via their platform, but I need to manually update the rest. And since a few of my "portable apps" actually came from other places entirely (like their own hosted page), it would be nice to know where each came from using a list.

All I would like is a list with the name of the app, maybe a short description, bonus for the version number, and category as listed on this site.

I know I can search out apps, or view categories as the site is already laid out, but I can't easily find a way to export just that data (above) into a neat and simple excel spreadsheet. In addition, some apps appear in more than one category (if I'm remembering correctly).

Anyway, thanks for hosting such a valuable and incredible collection!

And thanks too, if there is some way to accomplish the exported simple list.

Re: Simplified List of ALL Portable Apps hosted here?

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 1:33 am
by Andrew Lee
Check this out:

viewtopic.php?t=20275&start=15

You can download the database as CSV.

Re: Simplified List of ALL Portable Apps hosted here?

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 4:12 am
by buigley45
Thanks Andrew! That sounds EXACTLY like what I'm looking for. Now I'm like a kid at Christmas, waiting for my 24 hr period (since registering) to pass in order to have "insert" rights and access the database.

In advance, thank you again!!!

Re: Simplified List of ALL Portable Apps hosted here?

Posted: Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:29 am
by __philippe
Welcome onboard @buigley45 !

Tip
Nirsoft's CSVFileView is your best friend when it comes to view/manipulate *.csv, sorted whichever way you fancy

Might as well take a gander here for some elaboration over CSVFileView merits (or shortcomings)... :wink:

Re: Simplified List of ALL Portable Apps hosted here?

Posted: Sat Dec 18, 2021 12:06 pm
by Albert90
__philippe wrote: Fri Aug 27, 2021 5:29 am
Tip
Nirsoft's CSVFileView is your best friend when it comes to view/manipulate *.csv, sorted whichever way you fancy

Might as well take a gander here for some elaboration over CSVFileView merits (or shortcomings)... :wink:
I've recently undertaken a programming project involving the use of CSV files and this is going to be super useful for that!