SwissDelphiCenter Delphi Tips

The SwissDelphiCenter (archive.org) site closed down a few months ago and I could not find any other way to get at the Delphi Tips database they were hosting. So I vibe coded a scraper script that extracted them from the Internet Archive and converted them to a format that can be imported into the GExperts Code Librarian (currently you need to compile a GExperts dll from the sources for this functionality). So, here is the download link. Just in case you are concerned about the load that scraper put on the Internet Archive: I explicitly let the script pause for 10 seconds after each request, so that load should have been negligible. Since somebody might want to do something else with these tips, here is a description of the archive format. It contains 1559 tips in 17 categories and uses the same format as the DelphiDabbler Code Snippets Collection, which is why the Code Librarian can import it as it is. It is a flat ZIP file without any directories, and all files in it are UTF-8 with…