Conquer Club API

[barrycarter]

To confirm, the API won't tell you who has how many troops on which territories for a given game, correct? Even with the gn query, the info you get is limited, yes?

[sherkaner]

Correct, it's only general info.

[barrycarter]

And using a program to auto-login myself and scrape the info from the JSON data on the game page is considered a bad thing, yes?

[sherkaner]

Depends, not in all cases. For instance I think the Game Link-plugin actually uses the fact that you're already logged in to retrieve the game pages and use the info from those pages, which looks like what you're planning to do. But that's quite heavy, so it's not advised.

[Dako]

It's not bad - it is slow and hard to code/support. Any change to game layout will give you a bunch of work to up[date the tool. While abstract API just gives the data you need.

[barrycarter]

Thanks. My thought was to create a site where people enter a CC game number, and get various stats, who has best probability of winning, warnings (like: "if red grabs foo, he'll get a bonus"), etc.

Having the maps in XML format is really useful for general strategies, but I was thinking of a game-specific real-time strategy.

[Foxglove]

Depends, not in all cases. For instance I think the Game Link-plugin actually uses the fact that you're already logged in to retrieve the game pages and use the info from those pages, which looks like what you're planning to do. But that's quite heavy, so it's not advised.

Once the API provides the required information, there will be no need to do it the "heavy" way anymore. But for now... that's the only way to allow the script to work properly!

[sherkaner]

Depends, not in all cases. For instance I think the Game Link-plugin actually uses the fact that you're already logged in to retrieve the game pages and use the info from those pages, which looks like what you're planning to do. But that's quite heavy, so it's not advised.

Once the API provides the required information, there will be no need to do it the "heavy" way anymore. But for now... that's the only way to allow the script to work properly!

Yeah, obviously you have a valid point. And I use and love the script btw (except when I get on a forum page with 100+ games I'm not interested in).

[barrycarter]

Can you get game start time from the API? The events field doesn't include "game initialized" and I can't see it anywhere else.

[barrycarter]

BTW, I'm working on a greasemonkey script:

http://github.com/barrycarter/bcapps/bl ... ub-game.js

that scrapes current data from a game page and posts it to my website, where it gets logged but nothing else happens.

If anyone's interested in helping out, please ping me, thanks.

[Qyu]

just one thing, in your 'how to' here :

[...]
So let's look at a typical output.

Using

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http://www.conquerclub.com/api.php?p1un=chipv

Root tag is <api>

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<api>
   <page>1 of 2</page>
   <games total="244">


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you forget in the url the get var 'mode=gamelist'
so you don't have gamelist but the rules of the API

[chipv]

The head post needs updating will do it now.

Adding requests

1. Allow search by dates. Add 2 parameters from and to, choose whatever date format you want.
2. Indicate blocked players in freestyle status. (Now reads Ready)

Maybe 2 has already been asked for.

[kruthar]

Hi all -

Please let me know if this functionality exists somewhere but I am looking for the turn number for all of the events that get returned on game objects, currently they only come with a timestamp, which really isn't all that useful unless you are doing real-time monitoring. This would allow for some interesting player/game analysis that I plan on doing.

Can I formally request that all events for a game object come with a turn number? Thanks a whole bunch.

[ender516]

If you need a quick workaround, look for the events that say "Incrementing to round n".