October « 2009 « wowguidelist.com

Here is some info for third party sites who would like to use our WoW ranking data.
I know people query our data for things such as EQ-DKP modules, etc.
You can download the data for every single guild and also for all guilds of a realm at once.

Single Guild Rank

Can be accessed by adding "/json_rank" to guild URL.
Example:
http://www.wowprogress.com/guild/us/sen-jin/Premonition/json_rank

{"score":"40817","world_rank":"1","area_rank":"1","realm_rank":"1"}

You can also query various tiers/ratings:
http://www.wowprogress.com/guild/us/sen-jin/Premonition/rating.tier8.ach/json_rank

{"score":"123045","world_rank":"2","area_rank":"1","realm_rank":"1"}

Batch Rankings for Realm

Can be downloaded from this directory: http://www.wowprogress.com/export/ranks/
There is a set of files updated regularly, one file per realm/tier/rating.

WoWProgress.com Data Export Conditions
1. The data can be used free of charge.

2. Direct link to WoWProgress.com http://www.wowprogress.com/ must be placed on all pages that use the data. It must be clearly stated that the data comes from WoWProgress.com.

3. The data presented in JSON format, GZIP-compressed.

4. It's recommended to use If-Modified-Since HTTP negotiation on second request and all consequent requests to the same file in order to reduce traffic usage.

5. You must use the batch download instead of single guild requests if you want to update info for many guilds.

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October 9, 2009

All Things Azeroth #136 - Scrapbooking and Patch Noting

Filed under: Uncategorized — Dwight Wallbridge Productions @ 7:33 pm

Medros and Graece are back talking about Patch 3.3, Landing Hippogryphs, Authenticators and more as Med interviews Lassirra about Scrapbooking Azeroth

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October 1, 2009

WoW Detective

Filed under: Uncategorized — WoWProgress: main page @ 3:15 pm

Lost a friend? Guild master (and the guild bank) transferred to another realm? WoW Detective comes to the rescue!

It is live now.

How to use it:

1. Go to the page of the character you want to check.
For example http://www.wowprogress.com/character/eu/magtheridon/Poptisse

2. Click to "Find transfers / renames" link. You'll find it on the right side of the page.

3. Look at the result

4. Check if the info is correct and click "yes" or "no".

We already had this search system in Sunwell and now I've reworked it from scratch.
It should be much more precise now and plus it's possible to query any character and the result is available in a few seconds - it scans millions of characters in real-time.

The index was built September 30, so there will be no detection after this date. I plan to rebuild the index every several days.

And another limitation exists at the moment: it won't be able to find some transfers as info of few guilds was lost.

At the moment it's on the test stage. Once I'm sure it's working correctly, the results will be available on http://www.wowprogress.com/detective

Update: It is live now: http://www.wowprogress.com/detective

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