KAG API available to community devs

Hi all,

As you may or may not know, I have gotten more involved in the game's development to help build a scalable infrastructure for authentication, server lists, etc. I decided to do this by creating an API which the game client and server use.

You can read an overview about the API at https://wiki.kag2d.com/wiki/API_Overview , though some of the pages on the wiki pertaining to the API are out of date - - I will get them updated this week.

More importantly, this API is and will continue to be updated for public usage by community site/application developers. There are a few things it does which are of use to the public right now, but they will be added to significantly over the coming weeks (including fetching the server list, player statuses/whereabouts, and eventually basic player statistics and more).

I chose to announce it now because there are two things it already does which may be useful to site developers and I want to start a dialogue with the community about API features that are requested, bugs, robustness and other community input.

The two things it does which may be useful to others right now are small, but they are:

• Fetching a forum member's avatar (will be used on the official site and elsewhere soon)
• Fetching a player's account status (gold, active, banned, ban reason/expiration, account type, etc)

Much, much more will be added - but I wanted to share what is there so far so you guys can start brainstorming what you want to do with it now and in the future - all feedback is welcome!

 

This is awesome, I assume one awesome way to use this would be for server owners to take the usernames of everyone online from the file that keeps that now, parse it, and feed it to get their avatar, and information about them on a web interface that allows easy interaction for banning and such remotely.

 

where? :)