2.2.2.3 Announcements.

Once you have your Autoget plugin installed, you are half ready to begin leeching.  You have the gun, but you still need the bullet metaphorically speaking.  In this case, the bullet is what is called a trigger.  The trigger is signified with a "!" prefix.  The trigger allows your program to specifically ask for access to a certain collection of images (i.e. bluebird, kuni, etc.).

Triggers are advertised in the channel as shown below.  They are advertised on a somewhat regular basis, around every 30 minutes or so.  Just sit back, be patient, and keep your eyes peeled.   Chances are if you don't see an announcement, that means no triggers are currently being offered at that time.

In this instance we are given a trigger to obtain a trigger list.  This is common as many people who offer triggers tend to offer lots of them.  Its not really convenient or polite to advertise a list of 50 or 60 triggers in the channel window on a regular basis. 

When you see this notice or something of this fashion "|Burner| offers a few excellent triggers.  Type /ctcp |Burner| !burn for the list. Collections/Triggers updated [11/29/98]" you will want to manually input this trigger to obtain the list.  To request the list, type "/ctcp |Burner| !burn".

The .txt file will then be sent to you.  You will notice from the above text statements in the channel window that I received |Burner|'s trigger list, entitled burn.txt. 

Now you will want to open the .txt file in Notepad like I have done below with our example trigger list, burn.txt.  Very simply, the trigger list lists the syntax for the associated collections.  For instance, if I wanted to request files from the "Akina" collection, I would use the "!Akina" trigger.

A quick note about trigger syntax.  While Autoget requests the files automatically, it does it the same way you can manually do it.   This will come in handy to know.  For instance, if you want only one scan from the dream collection, you don't want to run autoget.  it takes far longer to set up than it would to request the file manually. /ctcp <nickname> !trigger <filename> is the manual syntax used to obtain a file from a trigger.  So if I wanted one dream scan, dreamgirls101.jpg from burner and I found out his dream trigger was "!dream", I would simply type in the channel text box " /ctcp |Burner| !dream dreamgirls101.jpg" and hit enter to initiate the transfer.