API for player statistics

[deebz]

Heikkiv, MaZ,
I love you.

http://sh.lawlr.us/compare?tags=+[TSC]

PS: Looks like Match draws count as defeats!?

[FM_HeikkiV]

From what I understand, total kills is however much you've killed (friendlies and enemies) MINUS the number of team kills - but the actual number of rifle kills / sniper kills seems to count team kills as well (which explains why some people I've seen have higher rifle kills than kills in total [shocked]).

That's correct. The total number of kills does not count team kills in order not to encourage team killing but the other stats (assault mode, sniper mode, melee etc...) include those as well.

The number of deaths counts all deaths, including deaths from friendly fire.

[MadTom]

Great wok, thx for that!

[MaZ-]

PS: Looks like Match draws count as defeats!?

Seeing as there's no "draws" data and pretty much everyone has more losses than wins, seems like a good theory


edit: Timestamps for achievements seem to have an appended '.0' (eg. <time>2009-11-06 20:22:35.0</time>), which looks like it would represent milliseconds except it never seems to change. Is this intentional?

edit2: game->wins + game->losses doesn't equal 'matches', which seems to always be slightly larger. Any chance the missing amount not outputted specifically is "draws"?

Also, the "main" achievements tag is called achievements while the child tags for each achievement are achivement

Also also: It doesn't particularly change things for single-use API requests (signature generation for a single person / whatever), but for things where multiple player stats need to be retrieved it would be really useful for it all to be possible in a single request - should speed up multiple requests quite a bit and reduce load from connection spam on both ends - e.g. say I want to compare 16 players and their stats, based on their player name - I have to make one request per player to retrieve their ID and 1 request to retrieve their actual stats - 32 individual HTTP requests which would optimally be returned in 2 requests - 1 grabbing all the player ID's for a list of names, and 1 returning all the stats for each ID in that list.

Yet more:

Player searching seems to work a bit strangely - for example, doing a player search for 'Kher' returns '[CPC] Akheris' as the first result when there is also a player named exactly Kher. Would be cool if it returned players ordered by their likeness to the search string or something, or return exact matches first (I think atm it seems to sort by player ID, right?)

Even more even more (sorry):

Perhaps a quick API for the global stats would be cool (players online, servers online, matches played)

[FM_kingkatt]

This is aMaZing work - see what I did there?

MaZ, if you can add a more user-friendly front-end to your stats site I would be happy to add it to our Fansites page on the official website: http://www.shatteredhorizon.com/community/fansites/

[MadMakz]

Yes, you can use a steam id instead of our player id. Eg.

http://stats.shatteredhorizon.com/stats/api/playerStatistics.action?steamId=76561197967188786

<3 ![thumbup]

[MaZ-]

This is aMaZing work - see what I did there?

MaZ, if you can add a more user-friendly front-end to your stats site I would be happy to add it to our Fansites page on the official website: http://www.shatteredhorizon.com/community/fansites/

Terrible joke

http://sh.lawlr.us - That's about as much of a front end as I have effort to write atm - also moved it to a shorter domain because the other one is a bit much effort to remember

[deebz]

MaZ can you add a contact mail or form to your stats webapp ? Also i can't contact you by PM ?

[MaZ-]

MaZ can you add a contact mail or form to your stats webapp ? Also i can't contact you by PM ?

Go for it (I'll link my email in the page footer in a sec).

[FM_kingkatt]

Terrible joke

http://sh.lawlr.us - That's about as much of a front end as I have effort to write atm - also moved it to a shorter domain because the other one is a bit much effort to remember

Nice work. Is it possible to detect the "_" character so that we could take a look at all dev players with FM_XXXX names?