Anyway to contact KakaoStats?

[pgwalsh]

Hi...

I am trying to get in touch with one of the moderators or owner of KakaoStats to ask about usage. Is that possible?

[MoneyGuyBK]

I am not sure what your Q is, but Kakao could answer it if you could be more specific





Peace

[pgwalsh]

I am not sure what your Q is, but Kakao could answer it if you could be more specific





Peace

Been a while.

My original question was being able to access the stats with my widget. I make a widget for OS X called F@H WUdget. Anyway, I got a response from ExtremeOverclocking and they provide an xml feed for their stats. I'm using their stats currently, but originally wanted to use yours. XML feeds makes updates simple and fast and I'm not sure how you guys would feel about someone parsing your urls.

Cheers

Peter

[MoneyGuyBK]

glad you got (somehow) what you needed.
I'm sure Kakao will respond to you soon.






Peace

[pgwalsh]

glad you got (somehow) what you needed.
I'm sure Kakao will respond to you soon.






Peace

It would be great, but I've emailed in the past without response. It's possible they never received it. The only issue I have with eXtreme Overclocking is that they don't support all teams and users. You have to be in the top 2000 teams or top 6000 user. If I had a place where I could get all users stats, it would be great because a lot of users don't fit into either category. Even better if they provided an xml link for the stats for user and team. Then it would hardly tax their server, be less than someone coming and looking them up.

Here's an example:

Team Info Example:
XML URL: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/xml/team_summary.php?t=11314
User Info Examples:
XML URL: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/xml/user_summary.php?u=32334
Alternate XML URL: http://folding.extremeoverclocking.com/xml/user_summary.php?un=EOC_Jason&t=11314
Please note that the team info XML data is included on the user XML data (saving you from having to make two queries if you want team + user data).

Below is an example of the XML output:

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<?xml version="1.0"?>
<EOC_Folding_Stats>
    <team>
        <Team_Name>Default</Team_Name>
        <TeamID>0</TeamID>
        <Rank>0</Rank>
        <Users_Active>1443</Users_Active>
        <Users>2045</Users>
        <Change_Rank_24hr>0</Change_Rank_24hr>
        <Change_Rank_7days>0</Change_Rank_7days>
        <Points_24hr_Avg>6600404</Points_24hr_Avg>
        <Points_Update>900772</Points_Update>
        <Points_Today>2642956</Points_Today>
        <Points_Week>16777215</Points_Week>
        <Points>1205763681</Points>
        <WUs>12952183</WUs>
    </team>
    <user>
        <User_Name>PS3</User_Name>
        <UserID>207511</UserID>
        <Team_Rank>1</Team_Rank>
        <Overall_Rank>1</Overall_Rank>
        <Change_Rank_24hr>0</Change_Rank_24hr>
        <Change_Rank_7days>0</Change_Rank_7days>
        <Points_24hr_Avg>2047377</Points_24hr_Avg>
        <Points_Update>296395</Points_Update>
        <Points_Today>830714</Points_Today>
        <Points_Week>5554673</Points_Week>
        <Points>84729092</Points>
        <WUs>355793</WUs>
    </user>
    <status>
        <Last_Update>20070501090000</Last_Update>
        <Update_Status>Current</Update_Status>
    </status>
</EOC_Folding_Stats>
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[Kakao]

I don't plan to offer a XML feed. Parsing the HTML pages is almost a DoS attack since the database queries are very expensive.

[pgwalsh]

I don't plan to offer a XML feed. Parsing the HTML pages is almost a DoS attack since the database queries are very expensive.

I don't plan to parse your php or html pages and I certainly wouldn't do it without permission. I'm assuming you're using mysql database, so doing a query with php to output an xml file is relatively painless, but I understand if you don't want a load.

On a side note. I have made my widget query EOC only when updates are available and at random times within a 20 minute time period to not overload a server. So that means each widget does it independently at different times. I can only imagine having a few thousand queries at once.