Free Company Tracker Page

[Simbiat]

I finally got my hands on adding JSON alternative to the pages (including new achievements' pages!). Just add "api/" before "fftracker" in the URI to get the same data you see on the page in JSON format. That is https://www.simbiat.dev/fftracker/character/6691027/ should be changed to https://www.simbiat.dev/fftracker/character/6691027/
If you are opening the page for the first time (that is not after getting to it from some other page on the website), this link will also be present in META tags as alternative link. I am looking into possibility to update it when navigating the site, too.
Either way, feel free to utilize this info on your websites, if you want to somehow spice it up

[Simbiat]

While viion seems to have abandoned public version of lodestone-php, I rewrote it to utilize regex instead of Symphony. The library is downloadable here.

[Luna-M]

Design reminds me of early 2000 webdesign and frankly, closed the tab quickly.
Any plans to make it cleaner?

[Simbiat]

Design reminds me of early 2000 webdesign and frankly, closed the tab quickly.
Any plans to make it cleaner?

Yes. I am no designer myself, so I know I suck at it And earlier design, was, to be honest, even worse I am always open to suggestions, too

[Simbiat]

Added parsing of Frontline, Grand Company and Free Company rankings to the library https://github.com/Simbiat/lodestone-php

[Simbiat]

Tracker was updated. A lot of tracking information was reorganized on backend, PvP teams support was added, private profiles are now available (right now through me only, though).

[Simbiat]

Not like anyone cares, but tracker now supports new jobs. And the library supports new races as well.

[Aladire]

As a fellow full-stack developer, Simbiat, if you are going to create APIs for others to use, you should follow the RESTful style. 1 of the style is you add a version to the URL so that if you do make a change, it does not break the old URL right away forcing others to have to react.

just add /api/v1/.... and you would be go.

[Simbiat]

As a fellow full-stack developer, Simbiat, if you are going to create APIs for others to use, you should follow the RESTful style. 1 of the style is you add a version to the URL so that if you do make a change, it does not break the old URL right away forcing others to have to react.

just add /api/v1/.... and you would be go.

So far there were no breaking changes AFAIK, so there was no reason for versioning. And, to be honest, I do not think, anyone is using this api either way

[Simbiat]

Some of you might have noticed some changes on tracker. I’ve only hid characters’ details, free company details are still available (if character was present in any groups before, this info will still be shown on character pages as suggested links). Mainly because of Lodestone changes, that force me to use way too many connections to it to get character data, which makes current approach extremely inefficient, because Lodestone temporarily blocks the queries from my side way more often this way, which results in huger backlog, which means even less frequently updated data. I am looking into ways to optimize the service one way or the other without removing functionality completely. I am also working on putting the code into a library and pushing it to GitHub in case someone else decides to do something similar.