Scripting Interaction with Nod to gather Data

Chrism · 10-25-2009, 05:41 PM

Does anyone know if it is possible to write a script to repetitively (e.g. once an hour) request information from Nod servers?

Specifically I would like to be able to request instant clan stats and record them to a file for analysis.

Is this possible (is it even allowable)? If so can anyone point me in the right direction?

flipynifty · 10-25-2009, 06:33 PM

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Jonsboyfriend · 10-25-2009, 06:45 PM

Yes it is possible Ask Seletchi how to do it. He can help

Sapreaver · 10-25-2009, 06:46 PM

It should be a fine thing to do with Scar or w/e just click the clan names and get updates and put it in excel or what ever program you are using.

zenga · 10-25-2009, 07:05 PM

Yes that's pretty easy to do. Most languages have a scraping function. For php/perl i recommend curl. There are also commercial tools that can do this for you, google for 'site scraper' and it will spam your nuts off.

As for the hourly logging: cronjobs can do that.

Anyway, i have a similar script running that does this for another site. I can provide you with some example code if you want.

zenga · 10-25-2009, 07:09 PM

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Originally Posted by Chrism

Is this possible (is it even allowable)? If so can anyone point me in the right direction?

possible for sure, and why shouldn't it be allowed? its a static html page that provide this data

Chrism · 10-25-2009, 11:22 PM

well my thought was scripting the ingame action of right-click -> Clan Admin Options -> Show Clan stats, since the tops list is slightly delayed, but i guess the delay is static so it could be negligible.

Was just concerned with the recent focus on preventing bots/automation that this might be frowned upon, but i'm not trying to do anything malicious

zenga · 10-26-2009, 05:53 AM

Ah oki, thats a different thing, well if you want to do it that way you will most likely need to screenie the right click, generate an image and then read it in with an ocr. There might be way to pull the data directly from the applet, but i'm not aware of that.

Still i think you make it overly complex, as all this data is provided in the toplists, which are very easy to grab.

10-26-2009, 09:50 AM

using fraps to get the screenie would be easy to do, all you'd need to add to the script is a keystroke (f10 is default) as it will screenshot just the active game and nothing more.