Events API 2.0 ?
Eowin Of Rohan.2619:
Hi,
The current Events API doesn’t work anymore. Cause : MegaServers. Current fix : World Bosses schedule.
But the events API didn’t only provide info about World Bosses. I was using it to keep track of all events status and their last status change time (my site was downloading the full events.json file every 20 seconds and comparing/updating all 100k+ lines in DB)
It was useful for a lot of things that became impossible with MegaServer :
- create timers of watching list for any set of events – examples : queen’s champions, krait witches, 3 achievement bosses in kessex, Scarlet’s invasions …
- find the list of active events/preevents in any area of the game, used mainly for daily achievements but also for exploration.
- find the list of all group events, again for dailies
- find the current status + time of any event over all worlds. Useful to find the last opened temple, a server where a given champion isn’t blocking a skill point (asura Oouo…), or where it has just been defeated (risen knight in Malchor’s leap where the event was active on most servers and in Preparation on all others but 1-2 and preparation = "boss spawns as soon as a player comes)
Currently all of these are impossible (ok, MegaServer mostly fixed the skill point champions issues)
This is why we need an API v2. In another thread, Stefan Larimore said “We will consider implementing a timer API based on this schedule for the future.”, but just he WB schedule wouldn’t be very useful. People are talking about “OAuth api v2” : will there be an event API similar to the old one but using MegaServer numbers instead of World IDs and where people can log in so the API can return their MegaServer ID ?
tl ; dr : old event API was used for much more than WB, we need a new API using MegaServers.
And last question : my domain name is going to expire soon. Anet, should I renew it ?
Regards,
Eowyn
buckeyecro.9614:
Hi,
The current Events API doesn’t work anymore. Cause : MegaServers. Current fix : World Bosses schedule.
But the events API didn’t only provide info about World Bosses. I was using it to keep track of all events status and their last status change time (my site was downloading the full events.json file every 20 seconds and comparing/updating all 100k+ lines in DB)
It was useful for a lot of things that became impossible with MegaServer :
- create timers of watching list for any set of events – examples : queen’s champions, krait witches, 3 achievement bosses in kessex, Scarlet’s invasions …
- find the list of active events/preevents in any area of the game, used mainly for daily achievements but also for exploration.
- find the list of all group events, again for dailies
- find the current status + time of any event over all worlds. Useful to find the last opened temple, a server where a given champion isn’t blocking a skill point (asura Oouo…), or where it has just been defeated (risen knight in Malchor’s leap where the event was active on most servers and in Preparation on all others but 1-2 and preparation = "boss spawns as soon as a player comes)
Currently all of these are impossible (ok, MegaServer mostly fixed the skill point champions issues)
This is why we need an API v2. In another thread, Stefan Larimore said “We will consider implementing a timer API based on this schedule for the future.”, but just he WB schedule wouldn’t be very useful. People are talking about “OAuth api v2” : will there be an event API similar to the old one but using MegaServer numbers instead of World IDs and where people can log in so the API can return their MegaServer ID ?
tl ; dr : old event API was used for much more than WB, we need a new API using MegaServers.
And last question : my domain name is going to expire soon. Anet, should I renew it ?
Regards,
Eowyn
I am wondering the same thing. I was in the process of creating a personal App prior to the Megaserver announcement, but I’ve tabled the project.
If you don’t get an official response, if I were you, I would not renew the domain.
Froggy.5371:
Same thing.
Just as I was looking at api development, it’s all gone heads up. To be honest I’m not sure how they’ll be able to fix it.
Is the thing I’m working on, just for fun etc, right now instead of an awesome event tracker it just has a typical schedule-on-rails. I’d love for a new api to come out.
Mehlox.1756:
Anything new on this one?
I’m following the OAuth and APIv2 discussion for a long time now but nobody seems to have a clue.
ArenaNet API Developers really need to provide more information…
Eowin Of Rohan.2619:
ArenaNet API Developers really need to provide more information…
yes !
I guess I’m not the only one who bought a domain name when the event API came out, so I’m not the only one who needs to know ASAP if it should be renewed !