BF3 Stats API preview

[ezzemm]

Thank you

[ezzemm]

2012-02-19
- Added Ranking for weapons with over 100 kills.

Hi 1April!

Yesterday you've added rankings for weapons. Is it possible that you add those rankings to the API? I would really appreciate it.

Due to the upcoming "Servers"-feature of bf3stats.com: If you've established this, do we have a "last seen online"-value in the API as we had in BFBC2?

Regards, ezzemm

[1ApRiL]

If you set ranking,weapons,weaponsRanking to true then you get c and r for every weapon:
r: rank position
c: count of ranked weapons

[ezzemm]

If you set ranking,weapons,weaponsRanking to true then you get c and r for every weapon:
r: rank position
c: count of ranked weapons

Thank you very much
This could be useful for vehicles as well )

[ezzemm]

Hi 1April!

It seems the equipmentRanking does not work. Or did I anything wrong?
Regards, ezzemm

Edit: Sorry, I forgot you need more than 100 kills per equipment before ranking

[Grezvany13]

@ezzemm: I check it, and you seem to do everything correct.

I did notice however that it will only return the r/c/v values when the item is actually listed at the leaderboards. However this is not the case for equipment. I tested it with my own stats, since I'm in the top 34% with claymore kills.

Minor bug, easy to fix

[ezzemm]

Hm, the "ranking" options works sometimes, and sometimes not. And I have no idea, what is cause of this behavior.
I've attached a screen from the API tester.

[HigH_HawK]

Hi ezzemm,

try using "rank" instead of "ranking", this should do the trick

Greets

[ezzemm]

I am no beginner
I am sure I want "ranking" and not "rank"

[HigH_HawK]

It was worth a try

It seems that the site is having some issues at the moment as well as the API. So we would have to wait for 1ApRiL to have a look at it.

[Rasch]

Are there anyone that can tell me how to get a date out of the long date_update/date_insert informations?

I can get the time from the values but not the date.

[HigH_HawK]

Hi Rasch,

if you are using PHP, you can use the date() function.

Example:

Time only

date("H:i:s", $player['date_update']) 

Output: 07:52:20

Date only

date("d F Y", $player['date_update']) 

Output: 24 02 2012

Time/Date

date("d F Y - H:i:s", $player['date_update']) 

Output: 24 02 2012 - 07:52:20

You do the same for date_insert.

[Grezvany13]

Just like HigH_HawK said; however, in Javascript you need to do a little magic:

var dat = new Data( (p.date_insert * 1000) );
var nice_date_insert = dat.getMonth() + '/' + dat.getdate() + '/' + dat.getFullYear() + ' ' + dat.getHour() + ':' + dat.getMinutes() + ':' + dat.getSeconds();

// nice_date_insert = '21/31/2012 12:34:56'

[Rasch]

Sorry, I forgot to state that "minor detail". I am working in .NET and C#.

I have tried to convert the number given in the json reply to a new DateTime() but that does not yield the correct date.

[Grezvany13]

Sorry, I forgot to state that "minor detail". I am working in .NET and C#.

I have tried to convert the number given in the json reply to a new DateTime() but that does not yield the correct date.

Try this:

public static DateTime UnixTimeStampToDateTime( double unixTimeStamp )
{
    // Unix timestamp is seconds past epoch
    System.DateTime dtDateTime = new DateTime(1970,1,1,0,0,0,0);
    dtDateTime = dtDateTime.AddSeconds( unixTimeStamp ).ToLocalTime();
    return dtDateTime;
}

[Rasch]

Thank you Grezvany13. That was exactly what I was looking for ... I was not aware that Unix had a default time of January 1. 1970 :-)

Again, thank you for the input!

[HigH_HawK]

... I was not aware that Unix had a default time of January 1. 1970 :-)

Again, thank you for the input!

That is the date when UNIX started