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Haxus, can we get Galactic chat exposed on an API endpoint? - CaptObvious - 05-31-2019
Hey Haxus,
I was wondering if we could get Galactic chat exposed on an API endpoint? I'd like to build a bot that would post messages sent to Galactic ingame into Discord and would rather not have to scrape the HTML from http://hazeron.com/galactic.html
It'd be *really* nice if we could get Discord be able to post back to Galactic if someone replies to the bot, but I could understand if that's a hard no.
Hey Haxus,
I was wondering if we could get Galactic chat exposed on an API endpoint? I'd like to build a bot that would post messages sent to Galactic ingame into Discord and would rather not have to scrape the HTML from http://hazeron.com/galactic.html
It'd be *really* nice if we could get Discord be able to post back to Galactic if someone replies to the bot, but I could understand if that's a hard no.
As a suggestion, you could add http://hazeron.com/galactic.json with the same data as the HTML and have it formatted like this:
{
"messages": [
{
"galaxy": "Shores of Hazeron",
"player": "Captain Obvious",
"message": "This is a test message.",
"timestamp": "2019-05-31T03:07:23Z"
},
{
"galaxy": "Shores of Hazeron",
"player": "Deantwo",
"message": "Please call me Danetwo from now on.",
"timestamp": "2019-05-31T03:07:40Z"
}
]
}
Thanks!
RE: Haxus, can we get Galactic chat exposed on an API endpoint? - Deantwo - 05-31-2019
You can use http://hazeron.com/galactic.html
That was made for such, but I never got around to using it.
RE: Haxus, can we get Galactic chat exposed on an API endpoint? - CaptObvious - 05-31-2019
Yeah I know, it's just bad juju to parse HTML to extract data as every time the HTML changes (like if Haxus updates the site) it'll break.
RE: Haxus, can we get Galactic chat exposed on an API endpoint? - Deantwo - 05-31-2019
I would also love a simplified version of playerson.html.
Maybe Avatars.html and AvatarsByEmpire.html too.
Could even do so for the blueprint exchange pages.