Achievement listings has been fixed up, rankings are now cached properly. Can see the correct rank and the page will load faster now, http://sc2ranks.com/us/359286/Vincent/a/ for example
Fixed last 5 earned achievements, won't bug out after an update and decide someone hasn't earned any achievements recently.
Added name statistics because I can, http://sc2ranks.com/stats/name/all/all/all shows the most popular names everywhere, http://sc2ranks.com/stats/name/kr/1/all shows the most popular in Korea who are also on 1v1 teams.

Shadowed

United States679 Posts

September 28 2010 01:56 GMT

#445

Tonights round of changes:

Fixes
Fixed sorting not working on the map games played page
Fixed sorting not working on another page, but I forgot which
Fixed recent achievements sometimes not showing up (I swear this time!)
Fixed caching issues with custom divisions, they will no longer mix cache keys with other divisions and will instantly update when characters are added or removed
API won't regenerate rankings and will let the cron create them
Fixed custom divisions being limited on message length, it can now be as long as you want and the box will just resize
Fixed news not including linked links if the message was < 100 characters

Changes/additions
Added a simple Share on Facebook or Twitter link to character profiles and custom divisions, I'll likely be tweaking these, but they won't be popping up on every single page.

Global region is now selected by default for character name searching
Redid pagination to use a single method for consistency and sanity, search now supports the go to page X input because of this
Custom divisions can be filtered by region now
Cleaned up team history generation, should load a little faster now
Added RSS/Atom feeds for team history, also fixed the Atom feed being called an RSS feed
1v1 will now show live rankings rather than the the croned 1 - 3 hour cached one
Removed shield icon next to achievement rankings, the text saying achievement rankings above it should be plenty
Queue refresh is now a javascript link and won't be clicked by spiders anymore (especially the annoying Chinese ones that pull 5000 pages)

DaneKoponen

United States1 Post

September 28 2010 03:55 GMT

#446

Would it be possible to have a list of people with impossible achievement scores?

It would be interesting to see how many people achievement hack, and who they are.

If this has already been added and I missed it, my apologies.

Shadowed

United States679 Posts

September 28 2010 03:59 GMT

#447

I'm not sure how you define "impossible achievement scores"? http://sc2ranks.com/ach/all/ already lists everyones achievement points, if someone had an impossibly high score it would show up there.

I'm not actually aware of any achievement hacks either.

Bibwak

19 Posts

September 28 2010 04:09 GMT

#448

Great work on this Shadowed! I love checking out the graph of my progress (mostly) upwards.

biskit

Australia355 Posts

September 28 2010 05:40 GMT

#449

Great website! I use it everyday :D

Can we have a filter based on race? Like is it possible to find out Top 100 Protoss?
Also is there a summary of each race representation in Top 200?

Shadowed

United States679 Posts

September 28 2010 05:43 GMT

#450

On September 28 2010 14:40 biskit wrote:
Great website! I use it everyday :D

Can we have a filter based on race? Like is it possible to find out Top 100 Protoss?
Also is there a summary of each race representation in Top 200?

You can already do both

Filter race by Protoss -> http://sc2ranks.com/ranks/all/diamond/1/protoss
Player group -> http://sc2ranks.com/stats/league/all/1/200/ technically you can't do 200, from the select, but you can just change the /200/ in the URL to anything you want

biskit

Australia355 Posts

September 28 2010 05:49 GMT

#451

Awesome, thank you!

Intricate

Canada127 Posts

September 28 2010 14:29 GMT

#452

this website is so useful to check out the real statistics =D

yenta

Poland1142 Posts

September 28 2010 20:30 GMT

#453

Found a bug: When trying to use the API to list players from an empty division, the script throws an exception instead of providing an error message or empty array.

Also, that array doesn't include region-rank, so I guess I'll try my luck with a mass base character + team info query t,t

Edit: I'm rewriting our cron job so it doesn't hit your server once/character and wanted to use custom divisions to achieve that

Shadowed

United States679 Posts

September 28 2010 20:41 GMT

#454

If you want region rankings, I would suggest you use the mass base + team info one because that's easier to manage instead of having to add players to a custom division and pull them down, and that's the intended use for it. I'll up the limit on the mass APIs to 100 characters too, which should let you group the data you need into a couple of requests.

The bug with custom rankings was cause of a nil cache key, Fixed it, but I'm about to run to class so it'll have to wait about an hour and a half before I can push it live.

yenta

Poland1142 Posts

September 28 2010 21:32 GMT

#455

Shadowed, could you please be a bit more verbose on how to properly query for mass base + team info?

I think I am doing the POST incorrectly because I am always getting an error of "too_many_characters".

I've tried posting with the following formats (key = value):
"characters" = [{"region":"us","name":"HuK","code":530},{"region":"us","code"

47,"name":"dayvie"}]
"characters" = characters[0][region]=us&characters[0][name]=HuK&characters[0][code]=530&characters[1][region]=us&characters[1][name]=dayvie&characters[1][code]=947
"characters" = 0[region]=us&0[name]=HuK&0[code]=530&1[region]=us&1[name]=dayvie&1[code]=947

BlasiuS

United States2405 Posts

September 28 2010 21:36 GMT

#456

Can you put in a statistic for average # of points in each league? Right now it's kind of a hassle to add up all 4 races and divide by 4.

darmousseh

United States3437 Posts

September 28 2010 21:44 GMT

#457

I just realized that all of the players character code is also listed on this site. Now everyone and their mother can add idra as a friend.

Shadowed

United States679 Posts

September 28 2010 22:33 GMT

#458

On September 29 2010 06:32 yenta wrote:
Shadowed, could you please be a bit more verbose on how to properly query for mass base + team info?

I think I am doing the POST incorrectly because I am always getting an error of "too_many_characters".

I've tried posting with the following formats (key = value):
"characters" = [{"region":"us","name":"HuK","code":530},{"region":"us","code"

How many characters are you trying to grab data for? I only just upped the limit to 100 about 5 minutes ago. Also what language are you using, the end result is it should look like the middle one, but if I know the language I can double check how you properly call it.

On September 29 2010 06:36 BlasiuS wrote:
Can you put in a statistic for average # of points in each league? Right now it's kind of a hassle to add up all 4 races and divide by 4.

I'll have to tweak the layout a bit, it's not a huge priority but I'll look into it.

On September 29 2010 06:44 darmousseh wrote:
I just realized that all of the players character code is also listed on this site. Now everyone and their mother can add idra as a friend.

You actually always could since it linked to battle.net, which shows character codes.

Shadowed

United States679 Posts

September 29 2010 00:00 GMT

#459

Ah I realize the description in the docs was a little confusing.

If you're doing a raw post, from curl for example it would look like this:

curl -d "characters[0][region]=us&characters[0][name]=SeleCT&characters[0][bnet_id]=789884&characters[1][region]=us&characters[1][name]=Katari&characters[1][bnet_id]=397058" http://sc2ranks.com/api/mass/base/char/?appKey=foobarshadow.com

If you are doing an AJAX post from Javascript it would look something like this:

{"characters":[{"region":"us","name":"HuK","bnet_id":388538},{"region":"us","code"

47,"name":"dayvie"}]}

Depending on the language, you might be able to do the latter and it will just reformat it into the raw version.

yenta

Poland1142 Posts

September 29 2010 01:51 GMT

#460

I'm using Zend_Http_Client (php) which uses sockets by default.

Yep, it was a problem with my parameters. I fixed my POST, requests work for http://sc2ranks.com/api/mass/base/char/?appKey but they timeout and fail for http://sc2ranks.com/api/mass/base/teams/?appKey

I'm sending the following as the body:
team[bracket]=1&team[is_random]=0&characters[0][region]=us&characters[0][name]=DarthThienAn&characters[0][code]=136&characters[1][region]=us&characters[1][name]=hazelynut&characters[1][code]=632&characters[2][region]=us&characters[2][name]=Shi&characters[2][code]=618