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Edited by Osundir on 8/8/11 6:18 PM (PDT)
Now that the API is live, we want to make you all aware that HTML datamining (via us.battle.net/wow or any of the other regional wow sites) is not acceptable. Within the next 7 days, we will start to blacklist users that are making excessive requests to our regular community sites.
If you are currently in the process of porting over to the API and have not requested a key yet, please do so. We do not want to interrupt service for community sites that are following that path. Please email api-support@blizzard.com with specific questions/concerns, or reply to this thread with any general comments. Thank you for your cooperation! |
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8/8/2011
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Will this blacklist sites similar to Zardoz's old Armory Datamining website?
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Here's the relevant link for those interested:
http://armorydatamining.appspot.com/ He compiled population data to determine class, spec, and race frequency amongst players, among numerous other data points. |
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@Tericho: Consider this the notice. We've had the API 'out there' for 2-3 months now, so there really isn't an excuse to have not STARTED porting your code over by now.
@Sabatieni: I believe he was mining the old Armory data that we decommissioned last week, but if he switched to the new site, its possible. @Chaud: This is really targeted at data we support on the API (Character Profiles, Guild Profiles, etc). We won't be targeting Forum data miners initially, but there is an off-chance some may get caught up in the API miner sweep, so I'd suggest contacting us if that might be the case. |
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8/8/2011
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If we were blacklisted from earlier on before the release of the API (strangely the same amount of requests I was making for awhile ended up enough to get my blacklisted a few months ago), is it possible to get unblacklisted so we can use the new API? I shot an email to api-support@blizzard.com a few weeks ago and never got a response.
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Thanks Osundir, that's what I was wondering. I knew everything was "cool" back in the day when he was still maintaining the blog, but wasn't sure if someone could attempt what he did with this new policy. |
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@Chaud: This is really targeted at data we support on the API (Character Profiles, Guild Profiles, etc). Do you think this might catch Blue trackers, like those hosted by MMO-Champion? |
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I've emailed in with my specific concern, but I'll repeat it here for community discussion (or blue deletion if it's offtopic). I sc!@#* the guild news feed to present on my guild forums. I could recreate the achievements portion of it by munging through achievements history for all characters and guild, I expect, but that really also depends on having the achievements data resource up and running :-) |
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That in mind, some kind of Battle.net Forum API on top of the WoW Armory API would be huge... ________________________________________________ The Chat Gem Lives! Fansite Administrator: DiabloFans, SC2Mapster, SC2Replayed |
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I would hope they're not cracking down on data that's not fully supported yet. For now I've changed my script to get everything but pet talents through the API and then doing a second request for the pet specific data through the HTML. I don't think I'm usually doing more than 1k requests per region a day, so I would hope that's within the realm of acceptability. I'm also still using the HTML version of the TW armory for character imports as the last I checked the character APIs there were not working properly (I hope they'll let us know when it gets fixed). Hopefully this isn't going to cause a problem either. |
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Forum and activity feed APIs would still be huge and awesome. :) |
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I believe it is perfectly reasonable to shut out those still HTML sc%%*#*!, but ONLY if all the data is available through the API.
I really hope that PvP information is available through character and team pages within this one week deadline. |
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Edited by Spellpower on 8/9/11 5:05 PM (PDT)
What qualifies as datamining?
One of my favorite sites, The Undermine Journal [http://theunderminejournal.com] uses the API. Could that be considered datamining? Is that the type of thing that wont be allowed Edit: I fail at english Edit: I fail at english even more, its HTML datamining not API..... derp |
