Path of Exile API and Character data

Hey, I'm planning a stats site for Path of Exile, has any public APIs or character data been made available yet to community developers?

I know about the:
Items - http://www.pathofexile.com/character-window/get-items?character=Jenovah
Stash - http://www.pathofexile.com/character-window/get-stash-items?league=default
Passives - http://www.pathofexile.com/character-window/get-passive-skills?reqData=false&character=Jenovah

But that only works if a user is logged in and only for their character.

It would be cool if you gave us developers an API to get data for characters, GGG. Any plans to?

Edit:
The main things that would be needed are:
- Passives
- Equipped items
- Character info (Name, Class, level, experience, mob kills, rare/magic/boss mob kills, played time)
- Progress in story
- League

What we shouldn't have access to is players stashes and inventory, only what they are currently wearing.

you're asking for a massive amount of data...not only to be gathered, but stored somewhere, with independent heavy encryption and verification software...
i'm sure they're taking notes...but give em time to finish the game...and to play with their own toy...lol

i can wait a couple of years for 'fluff and filler'

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you're asking for a massive amount of data...not only to be gathered, but stored somewhere, with independent heavy encryption and verification software...
i'm sure they're taking notes...but give em time to finish the game...and to play with their own toy...lol

i can wait a couple of years for 'fluff and filler'

The data is already available and stored already by GGG, encryption and verification isn't needed in an open api.

Hmm, until at least a few days ago,
http://www.pathofexile.com/character-window/get-characters
was working fine. But now it isn't anymore. Dammit!

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blzbub wrote:

you're asking for a massive amount of data...not only to be gathered, but stored somewhere, with independent heavy encryption and verification software...
i'm sure they're taking notes...but give em time to finish the game...and to play with their own toy...lol

i can wait a couple of years for 'fluff and filler'

uh what? He just wants an API, not direct access to game servers.

I mean its not totally effortless but you're overstating it by quite a bit.

You won't be able to do such a site because the POE helper plugin already puts some strain on the servers. When it was running full-blast, players were getting lag and servers were unstable.

You'll probably have to give up this idea, I don't think it's going to work. It's too much load on GGG's servers. They can't handle all the requests a page constantly being refreshed over and over brings.

It's likely you'll have to work something out with GGG, at best. Like, you only ping their server once for information per day, updating your site once every 24 hours. Maybe that would work, but even then, they might be against it.

The only way this would work well would be if they provided a staging server which was only updated once a day or so. That way the production server wouldn't be affected by constant server requests for the entire populations stats.

Definitely a back burner addition.

By all means buy the domains now before someone else does though :)

This might seem like a stupid question, but does anyone know how to parse these pages using Ruby on Rails? I keep getting redirected because it requires that I'm logged in and it doesn't seem to recognize that I already am when it creates a new connection.

EDIT: Wow I'm an idiot. Nevermind.

Most of this data is stored and already available, would be nice if it was presented in an easy to parse JSON format without needing to scrape the data that we currently get.

I don't think it should be a priority right now, but it would def be neat to see some sort of official javascript API exposed so players could write tools/etc, and have it pull data from servers that are separate from the ones that people are playing on.