Market/Barter Stand API?

[Rexz]

Would it be possible to fetch API data from say, all the barter stands in the world?
Would be cool if someone can design a website to fetch API data from all the stands and we can see whats available for sale without having to ask or go there ourselves.

[shubla]

It certainly is possible.
The only problem is collecting data.
You would either have to trust in people to submit data into the API, or then build some autonomous bot that walks around hearthlands searching for barterstands.

[Rexz]

It certainly is possible.
The only problem is collecting data.
You would either have to trust in people to submit data into the API, or then build some autonomous bot that walks around hearthlands searching for barterstands.

Perhaps build it so you can toggle data feeding on or off at specific barter stand. That way people can choose what they want to have be public. Not sure how stressful it would be on the server, I am not an advanced coder so I wouldn't know.

[MagicManICT]

To get around what shubla stated, we'd need an API opened by loftar on the server for gathering exising items on barter stands. It's very possible, and probably not that hard, to implement. It would take some time, and I'm not sure of the practical use of it. (I don't do a lot of trading and travelling, so I'm probably not even close to a good judge of usefulness.)

[borka]

What sense would it make if you knew what's in my Barter Stands which are used village internally only ?!? Would you like a peek-a-cup API too ?!?

[Rexz]

What sense would it make if you knew what's in my Barter Stands which are used village internally only ?!? Would you like a peek-a-cup API too ?!?

The point of the thread is to bring about discussion, if you had read the discussion you would have seen that I also suggested for this to be an optional mechanic if you want to toggle your stand to be seen publicly, which would address your problem.

[borka]

yep - sorry i misread that toggle part Rexz Prolly a better market management tool including this would come handy ...

[terechgracz]

What sense would it make if you knew what's in my Barter Stands which are used village internally only ?!? Would you like a peek-a-cup API too ?!?

Ofc it would be stupid, and this kind of data is useless for anyone so the whole api idea would be useless(because of clutter).
But, instead making game better for programmers(and stranger for mortals), there could be whole support for trading centres. Ie. special Village Idol, that scans for every barter stand and registers it's content(does have at least one product or has none), prices and Character Name(or not, because of kin system), this kind of data could be then seen by anyone who is standing inside this Village Idol regions + maybe from h&h official site.

[nikitron]

Good Idea. And I think will be nice to have a "share" checkbox in barter stands settings to share content in the API...