I've hacked together a small PHP script that scrapes http://steampowered.com/status/game_stats.html and stores the data into a mysql database. I'm currently using it to track the number of people playing TS http://www.vinoisnotouzo.com/steam.php so that I can see how it does over a period of time. That page only shows TS data, but data for all the other mods is stored as well. For example, you can see a cool work in progress graph http://vinoisnotouzo.com/mikegraph.php that displays player time for all the mods since I started tracking this morning.
I think it would be really cool if this were developed into a more robust and useful website where people could input values into a form and click links to display the information in different ways. For example, if the user could choose how far back he wants to view or select individual mods to view details of. However, I don't have the time to do any more then this simple hack, and I don't want to put more effort into it if the Steam website could change at any time and break the script. My question to Eric is: Are there any plans to do what I'm doing in the Steam website itself? If no, is there any way that the information on the Steam stats page can be standardized in XML format so that I don't have to worry about the website changing and breaking my script? My question to the list is: Is there any proficient PHP hacker willing to take this yolk up and finish the job? If someone does all the brutework I can support and maintain it, but I simply don't have the time to do any more involved development. It's for the good of the community! -- Jorge "Vino" Rodriguez _______________________________________________ To unsubscribe, edit your list preferences, or view the list archives, please visit: http://list.valvesoftware.com/mailman/listinfo/hlcoders
