fix: handle escaped pipes in leaderboard table parsing

The split('|') approach broke when hunt Notes fields contained literal
pipe characters (e.g., H132's "curl \| osascript"), causing phantom
contributors. Now uses a character-by-character parser that respects \|.

Co-Authored-By: Claude Opus 4.6 <noreply@anthropic.com>

Author: triw0lf

Keepers/Contributors.md

@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Everyone listed below has submitted ideas that have been added to HEARTH. This l
 
 | Rank | Contributor | Hunts Submitted |
 |------|-------------|-----------------|
-| 1 | Jinx (THOR Collective) | 39 |
-| 2 | Sydney Marrone | 29 |
-| 3 | Lauren Proehl | 21 |
+| 1 | Lauren Proehl | 41 |
+| 2 | Jinx (THOR Collective) | 39 |
+| 3 | Sydney Marrone | 29 |
 | 4 | John Grageda | 6 |
 | 5 | Jamie Williams | 3 |
 | 6 | Azrara | 3 |

scripts/generate_leaderboard.py

@@ -19,6 +19,26 @@ def find_hunt_files():
     return files
 
 
+def split_table_row(row):
+    """Split a markdown table row on unescaped pipes, ignoring \\| inside cells."""
+    cells = []
+    current = []
+    i = 0
+    while i < len(row):
+        if row[i] == '\\' and i + 1 < len(row) and row[i + 1] == '|':
+            current.append('|')
+            i += 2
+        elif row[i] == '|':
+            cells.append(''.join(current).strip())
+            current = []
+            i += 1
+        else:
+            current.append(row[i])
+            i += 1
+    cells.append(''.join(current).strip())
+    return [c for c in cells if c]
+
+
 def extract_submitter(cell):
     """Extract contributor name from a markdown link or plain text."""
     # [Name](url) pattern
@@ -44,7 +64,7 @@ def generate_leaderboard():
 
             for i, line in enumerate(lines):
                 if '|' in line and 'Submitter' in line:
-                    columns = [c.strip() for c in line.split('|') if c.strip()]
+                    columns = split_table_row(line)
                     for ci, col in enumerate(columns):
                         clean_col = re.sub(r'\*\*|\*', '', col).strip()
                         if "Submitter" in clean_col:
@@ -66,7 +86,7 @@ def generate_leaderboard():
             if not data_row.strip() or '|' not in data_row:
                 continue
 
-            data_cells = [c.strip() for c in data_row.split('|') if c.strip()]
+            data_cells = split_table_row(data_row)
             if submitter_index >= len(data_cells):
                 continue