Smed on Players Site API and More

[Hamma]

https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/289211932421017601

https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/289212157206343680

[Sunrock]

Grate news... have waited for that....

PS: API stands for?

[Hamma]

Application Programming Interface

[Neurotoxin]

Application programming interface. Basically it is what developers need to make apps and plugins and other cool stuff with PS2 data.

[maradine]

The player stat sigs that Gryphon whipped up are an example application of the API. Once it's public, the rest of us will be able to write stuff against it.

Can't wait!

[DirtyBird]

I tipped this.

[Brusi]

now, for the unmanned drone attacks using out iphones while we are on our shit-breaks at work.

[Rolfski]

No windows phone, I'm out of luck

[Archonzero]

now, for the unmanned drone attacks using out iphones while we are on our shit-breaks at work.

HAH.. that would kinda be badass.

[Tol]

Freakin awesome news! I love to get into some stats. Reminds me of WWIIOL, man they had some detailed stats.

[maradine]

For us, it's presence tracking. Our outfit lives in an IRC channel. Everyone's in tech, a grad student, or both, so we can't really have a regular night. I wrote an IRC bot to hang out and announce when outfit members log in to our server, but it's been scraping PSU or using dummy data for a month.

Now, in a perfect world, orbital strikes are API calls and I write !nuke. :angel:

[p0intman]

!nuke
thanks for pre-nerfing the api. now it'll never happen =/ i had a similar thought in my head.

[maradine]

The API as it currently exists can perform service string auth. That in and of itself isn't particularly comprehensive, but they're already running OpenSSL on the head end. It could be made reasonably secure.

[Sledgecrushr]

No windows phone, I'm out of luck

You might not get the official app but the tools will be available for entersing individuals to make their own apps for the windows phone.

[JPUK]

Why isn't the API open for testing?? I understand the issue with intermittent service, but it would be nice to get a head-start and have some fun with what's there.

:(

[maradine]

Because it's likely not on its final hardware for capacity purposes, and it's not done. I thought we hated releasing things that aren't done.

All is not lost. Hit data.soe.com and get familiar with their query language and formatting. You can run code against their other games right now. It's not perfect, but it does get a lot of prep work out of the way ahead of time.

[Hamma]

Yep -the structures will be pretty similar.

[Rockit]

Mobile app will do wonders to get PS2 more exposure. Definitely should hold off until after U02 and it looks like that is how it is working out, if I read those Tweets correctly. Want to make sure any new player influx will have the best initial experience possible.

[JPUK]

Hamma - I don't recall who your API guy is, but could you clarify a few questions via him - if he's not under NDA.

Is there any player location info? How about facility status?

Do stats like medals break down into types, for example can Auraxian medals be viewed? It would be nice to display end-game stuff like that on profiles.

( Auraxian medals + Headshots are the two stats I'm most interested in, because they denote skill and experience. )

[Hamma]

No facility or location status data.

Not certain on medal data.. I think it just gives a count.

[Hamma]

No facility or location status data.

Not certain on medal data.. I think it just gives a count.

[firefoxinc]

Mm any more of a update on the API system? Would be nice to have such a tool as it is very handy for EVE Online.

[Hamma]

Nothing yet.

[p0intman]

if he says its going live "this month", it'll be live in december at the earliest.

think valve time.
/bittervet.

[Koadster]

Hopefully we will get a PROPER stats page with this instead of just K/D SPM and Base attack/defense

How many revives, squad revives, heals, squad heals, sundie spawns, gal drops, repairs, resupplies.. There is so many stats that should be tracked

[Hamma]

https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/294498569086447616

[Sunrock]

I would love to see how mush health I have healed totally for an example. Also how many revives I have done.

[maradine]

https://twitter.com/j_smedley/status/294498569086447616

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