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Subject: Question for Achronos (or any Mod who knows)
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Since you are the webmaster, I figured I would ask you this. Im sure you know of the many stat tracking sites that are out there and know that most of them use the RSS as the basis of tracking stats. Well, some people like to know more than what is already provided, such as how many medals they get in a game. Well, there are some services out there that provide this, but it is very hard to write parsers that can pick out this information from the actual page source code (which is what we currently have to do). So, my question is, if its too much trouble to include more in the RSS feeds, could you at least add tags to each of the numbers.

Ex- When ever you list the actual number of medals, lets say Bonecracker medals, instead of just having

6 <img bonecracker.gif>

You could put:
<bonecracker>6</bonecracker> <img bonecracker.gif>

By doing this, you would give the parsers something easy to look for and make them much more efficient. I am currently planning writing a personal stat tracker in the form of a program that will gather stats and save them inro a file on the users computer, and Im hoping to include medal and accuracy tracking, but parsing that information from the webpage source is extremely inefficient, and if you guys were to ever change anything about the way you display the pages, it could call for a complete program rewrite.
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[Edited on 6/11/2005]

  • 06.11.2005 6:17 PM PDT
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An acknowledgement of the existance of this thread at least? Please?

  • 06.12.2005 8:46 AM PDT

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Don't bump or doubile post!

As for your question about RSS feed visit the bungie.net FAQs about RSS. RSS (Real Simple Script) is design to send a good amount of data using very little space. Only what is concidered the most important data is kept track of. Heck you could have it sent to your cell phone if you knew how.

  • 06.12.2005 9:53 AM PDT
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Don't bump or doubile post!

As for your question about RSS feed visit the bungie.net FAQs about RSS. RSS (Real Simple Script) is design to send a good amount of data using very little space. Only what is concidered the most important data is kept track of. Heck you could have it sent to your cell phone if you knew how.


I dont think you understood me... I dont care about getting RSS info. That is easy. Most people want a lot more than what the RSS provides, and the only current way to do it is make a parser* that can gather the source of the page that displays info for a particular game, and pick out the details from the source using very complicated character counts, searches and what not. Trying to put a finger on how many sniper kill medals a person gained is not easy because there is very little information in the page source that can be used to locate it exactly. If the webmaster would make just a slight change in the source of the pages, it would make things so much easier.

This is the current way medal info is displayed:

<td valign="center" width="15" align="right"><span class="ContentText">6</span></td>

That "6" in the middle of all that trash is the number that has to be parsed. It would be 10 times easier to parse that six if that line looked like this:

"...='ContentText'><bonecracker>6</bonecracker></span..."

instead of this:

"...='ContentText'>6</span..."

Then the parser would have to just look for the bonecracker tag instead of manually picking out that "6" using searches and complex string manipulation.

I dont want this to be added for just medals, but for all the other information displayed.

*parser: a translating plugin, program, or module that can take foreign information and/or code and put into native terms for use in a plugin, module, or program

[Edited on 6/12/2005]

  • 06.12.2005 11:27 AM PDT