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Show HN: The most comprehensive app for Heart of the Swarm

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Re: Show HN: The most comprehensive app for Heart of the Swarm

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Post by catshirt »

awesome. where did you get the data from? specifically, wins, losses, league info, etc. i wanted to try to make a program that reasoned your best chances of winning based on who you are facing and how they play, but the proper APIs didn't exist to get any of this data.

given the reason i was attempting to access the data, i could see why they don't expose it. :)

far be it from me to shamelessly self promote, but i'm not sure i'll ever find a more apt route for promoting this one, so i don't mind. a few months ago i finished a node library that scrapes Blizzard and exposes unit attributes through an HTTP api: https://github.com/catshirt/sc2-unit-api

Re: Show HN: The most comprehensive app for Heart of the Swarm

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Post by dracoli »

kmfrk wrote: post #2

Is it such a good idea to use "SC2" in the name of an unofficial app? I imagine that's entering a legal minefield.

Yeah there might be some issues with it if it became very popular. However there are already so many StarCraft apps in the app store that I thought maybe Blizzard is okay with it.

Re: Show HN: The most comprehensive app for Heart of the Swarm

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Post by dracoli »

geuis wrote: post #5

I'm your primary target. The site isn't mobile friendly and I can't really tell what your app does since I can't read the site.

Thanks for letting me know! I'll see if I can write up a more mobile friendly version as soon as I get some free time.

Re: Show HN: The most comprehensive app for Heart of the Swarm

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Post by dracoli »

catshirt wrote: post #14

awesome. where did you get the data from? specifically, wins, losses, league info, etc. i wanted to try to make a program that reasoned your best chances of winning based on who you are facing and how they play, but the proper APIs didn't exist to get any of this data. given the reason i was attempting to access the data, i could see why they don't expose it. :) far be it from me to shamelessly self promote, but i'm…

I'm scrapping player data (achievements, ladders, history, etc) directly from Blizzard. As for units/buildings information I had to update them myself right now which is a bit of a pain. Last for rankings, I'm taking data from sc2ranks.
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