Minor changes in TibiaData API

There have been a minor change to the TibiaData API regarding the gateway handling the requests.

Earlier, we’ve been using Nginx as handler of the requests, but we have successfully switched to Kong API Gateway instead. This is a first step into upcoming changes..

There are two things we would like to highlight so far.

  1. New headers related to caching by Kong
    API requests are cached in Kong API gateway instead of inside the application and with that there come a few benefits.
    Two new headers that are in place which could be nice for you to know more about:
    • Age – shows the age of the page in seconds (not presented if its not cached)
    • X-Cache-Status – identifies the status of the request’s proxy cache
      • Miss – the request was satisfied by being proxied upstream and parsed fresh data from tibia.com
      • Hit – the request was satisfied and served from cache
      • Bypass – the request could not be satisfied by the cache
  2. Response about page not found/no route existing
    • Earlier behavior, you where presented with a page not found page.
    • New behavior, you will either get a page not found or a JSON response saying there is no route.
    • Future change, you will later on only use JSON responses all the way.

If you want to know more, what the cache intervals are for the different endpoints, you can read our post about TibiaData cache intervals.

Please get in touch with us if you are experiencing any issues and we can try to resolve those.

Regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our server

Hi there,

Today, we will migrating the API to a new platform and by that, the IP of the API will change.

The support for IPv6 is temporary removed, so the API will now only be available through IPv4.

It should not impact your except if you use the static IP instead of the DNS api.tibiadata.com in your integrations.

Regards,
Tobias

Minor changes in TibiaData API

There have been a minor change to the TibiaData API regarding the characters views.

Bug-fixes

  • Characters view
    • HTML changes on tibia.com broke parser (which caused disturbances)
    • first row of tables was ignored but is back again now
    • implementing support for multiple houses (replaced house with houses)
  • Houses view
    • fixing list of all houses

Credits to all who sent the report of the bug in the API.
Keep the reports coming and feel free to suggest new features too!

Regards,
Tobias

Ongoing disturbances in our API

We had some disturbances regarding the API to requests experiencing higher response time.

The reason for this was that DigitalOcean have changed their loadbalancers by implementing throttling. In addition to that, the amout of requests has increased by five the last weeks, so therefore we hit the roof without noticing first.. but thanks for reporting the issue, but is now resolved.

Kind regards,
Tobias

Happy New Year

Looking back at 2020, there have been some nice progress on the TibiaData rewrite to Golang.
There have been some things that have to be sorted our, but we are sure that we’ll be in a testing phase in a couple of months.

On a personal there have been some challenges that have not enabled me to work as much as I wanted with the rewrite and I had to prioritize private stuff (obviously).

Anyhow.. new year and new possibilities!

I think we will leave it by this by now and go celebrate with your friends and we’ll keep you updated.

And if you got some questions as to the above or so, get in touch with me and I’m happy to answer it all!

Kind regards,
Tobias

Merry Christmas!

This time of year is the perfect time to lay back a little.

Christmas is a time of giving, and even this year I want to give my gratitude to everyone, who has been reporting bugs over the last year.

I am grateful for all of my users that have and continue to use my API and keep me motivated to continue!

Side notes;
If you are looking for some easy hosting solution, get over to DigitalOcean, where I host my staff. Use my referral link to support me.
If you want to sponsor me, head over to buymeacoffee, or contribute on my PayPal pool towards TibiaData.

Best regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our service

Hi there,

Our hosting provider DigitalOcean will make changes in the networking equipment to improve performance and reliability of our hosting location.

This maintenance is expected to not have any impact on our services, except for a risk of increased latency as well as small amounts of packet loss while the upgrades are performed.

Maintenance window:
Start: 2020-09-22 20:00 UTC
End: 2020-09-23 00:00 UTC

Regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our service

Hi there,

Our hosting provider DigitalOcean will make changes in the networking equipment to improve performance and new functionality in future.

This maintenance is expected to not have any impact on our services, except for a risk of increased latency as well as small amounts of packet loss while the upgrades are performed.

Maintenance window:
Start: 2020-09-08 20:00 UTC
End: 2020-09-09 00:00 UTC

Regards,
Tobias