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[Suggestion] Web API for steamgifts (to see how long till ga is over)

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luky92

some king of api allowing to check how long til giveaway ends by providing a link to the giveaway (usefull for giveaway groups)

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bolzano

get the .html of the page and look for the line with time and date of ga end. you find it just a few lines after the end of the header.

pick it out via regex or ba position inside the html.

example: for this ga you find the correct line in line 217.

or just search for "fa fa-clock-o" (in the src)

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luky92

yeah but doing this for group only giveaways won't work (you need authentication for this)

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bolzano

well, use you browsers api for that (it already has the cookie for auth, if you logged in with that browser).

for example autoit3 comes with simple functions to control the IE. is use this to enter giveaways of some (extended wishlist) games automatically.

if you have some programming skills i can provide the code so you can reuse parts of it to read out the times.

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luky92

well i do have programming expirience so if you dont maind contact me with the code thx in advance

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Dyna18

I would be very interested in this too.
I'm looking to add some more smart functionality to my site.
http://www.bundlequest.com

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bolzano

just add me on steam

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Dyna18

Sorry, haven't gotten around to it yet.
Been busy with some other stuff, but I am interested in this.

Do you code in PHP btw?

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bolzano

no, i do not really do web stuff.

i do computer vision and robotics, so mostly c++

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Dyna18

I'm interested to find out what you would use it on?

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Fyantastic

Happy Birthday! :)

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bolzano

thx, was confused first...but then realized its exact a year ago i registered here :)

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Lunatrius

Do yourself a favor and parse it with XPath instead. Regex may be able to do anything you want, it's not always the most effective solution.

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bolzano

thx for the info, is noted. i'll use that for parsing xml in future, thanks :)

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Lysh

The king of API decrees... Steamgifts already has a Web API

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Dyna18

ok

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emgieer86

It would be nice to have API. It may be usefull for mobile apps developers. I know that html can be parsed. I just don't think this is good method:)

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shauntmw

Yeah an API would be useful. I am facing the exact same problem as you since most of my giveaways are group giveaways. Was gonna propose to have SG about opening up the group GAs to allow public user to see (just not able to enter). But your suggestion works too.

Currently using the dynamic signature as workaround...

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Dyna18

I'm interested to find out what website you use it for?

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Dyna18

Yes, I would really really really love this feature to be added.
And it's really easy too.
With the following code you can easily make JSON output
http://pastebin.com/18N77HpM

What I would really like to get is a JSON that gives info about a single giveaway:

  • Giveaway status (open / ended / cancelled)
  • Gift name
  • Gift steam appid
  • Gift bundle/nonbundle status
  • Number of copies
  • steamgifts username of creator
  • steamid of creator
  • Giveaway creation time
  • Giveaway start time
  • Giveaway end time
  • Description
  • who can enter information
  • Number of entries
  • steamid's of those who have entered
  • Number of comments
  • steamid's of those who have commented
  • is the gift recieved
  • steamid of winner

Also I like to have a JSON that gives a list of all giveaways for a certain steam group.
Example: I want a list of all giveaways that were made for the group 'bundlequest'.

  • number of giveaways
  • giveaway id
  • giveaway is open / ended / cancelled status
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