News: Smed on Players Site API and More

Hamma · 2013-01-09, 10:31 PM

Sunrock · 2013-01-09, 10:38 PM

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

PS: API stands for?

Hamma · 2013-01-09, 10:39 PM

Application Programming Interface

Neurotoxin · 2013-01-09, 10:40 PM

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

maradine · 2013-01-09, 10:59 PM

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 · 2013-01-09, 11:56 PM

I tipped this.

Brusi · 2013-01-10, 12:42 AM

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

Rolfski · 2013-01-10, 04:27 AM

No windows phone, I'm out of luck

Archonzero · 2013-01-10, 06:02 AM

Originally Posted by Brusi

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 · 2013-01-10, 09:31 AM

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

maradine · 2013-01-10, 11:34 AM

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.

p0intman · 2013-01-10, 11:44 AM

Originally Posted by maradine

!nuke

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

maradine · 2013-01-10, 12:18 PM

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 · 2013-01-10, 12:24 PM

Originally Posted by Rolfski

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 · 2013-01-11, 10:00 AM

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.