RSS Scores and stats PLEASE!!

[Kurt]

I would really appreciate (and I'm sure a lot of other squad webmasters agree) if HTC would make the scores and stats available via RSS or some other feeder.

It would be a very nice feature which would allow us to display our squad roster and stats, collect stats over time, etc and display it on our own sites in a format most useful to us.

I know that there used to be a third party site that collected stats over time, but I think it was doing it using real time hits to HTC which was making the life of your database rather hard...

However, if the database could be extracted once daily when the scores update every morning and be provided in XML or something then the sites that require the data could grab it all and be done with it.  There would be no need to provided anything other than the current starts to date for a given tour.  There wouldn't be need for the any more than the current tour and the one previous tour as sites could store that data on their own and the reduce the amount of data being transferred directly from HTC.  In other words if I want to store 12 tours of data, I just need to collect it over time, I would not be able to make a hit for 12 tours at once as that would be a very large impact on HTC throughput.  

It could be hosted on a machine seperate from the main HTC site, and thus not cause undue impact on the web or game servers.

Please give this some consideration, I'm sure many people would appreciate having this data available.

[straffo]

would be good !

[Spatula]

Yer, that would be a great idea!

[Kurt]

Thanks for the support guys.

[2Hawks]

I did something similar a couple of years ago.

I 'scrapped' the HTC stats page for squad members, then 'scrapped' each squad members stats. I then took those results, parsed them with a regular expression for the stat numbers and dumped those numbers to a database.

Once in the database they were queried from the squad website to generate the tables of the squad mates ranks, sortable by rank category. The script (php) executed once  a day for the first visitor to that site for that day.

Since I hadn't asked permission to do this, I felt using the DB would minimize the hit on HTC's servers.

I can share the old code with the HTC staph if they want it, but I won't  give it out to prevent abuses.

Dan.