Category Archives: TibiaData News

TibiaData API v3 beta

I can announce that TibiaData API version 3 is ready for testing from 24th of July.

There are a lot of changes coming with the newest version and we are very happy to get it out to you soon. Release is scheduled to end of this summer!

The documentation page will soon be updated with new details as well, so stay tuned!

Are you interested in testing our new version of TibiaData? The please drop an email to tobias@tibiadata.com.

UPDATE: some endpoints are not correct yet.. I’m working on them and will post a new update.

Best regards,
Tobias

TibiaData application for Android retired

We have decided to retire our Android application for now and focus more on the API itself.

But don’t be sad, there is one great application out there, which started based on our API and have added more features over the years.

TibiaLive by Nohus and the link to Google Play is here:
https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=eu.nohus.tibia

Kind regards,
Tobias

Minor changes in TibiaData API

There have been a minor change to the TibiaData API regarding the guilds, houses and news views.

Bug-fixes

  • Guilds, Houses and News view
    • images are now served directly from static.tibia.com, instead from TibiaData servers

Credits to Moises Huesca 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 being truncated.

The reason for this was performance issues on the server due to an ongoing DDoS attack resulting in disk getting faster full than expected. The implemented monitoring did warn faulty, but that is luckily sorted out now.

Now everything seems to be back online as supposed and requests are coming in as expected, even tho we have more thank 1000+ requests per second coming in, but they are handled right now without impacting the service.
Sorry for that 🙂

Kind regards,
Tobias

Minor changes in TibiaData API

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

Bug-fixes

  • Worlds view
    • worlds with records or ongoing 999+ players have been displayed wrong.

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

Regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our server

Hi there,

Our hosting provider DigitalOcean will make a routine maintenance on the physical machine where we are hosting our load-balancer service on.

There is a little impact by this maintenance, which may be a few minutes of increased latency as well as small amounts of packet loss while they shift traffic to redundant devices. They will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.

Start: 2020-03-24 23:00:00 (UTC)
End: 2020-03-25 07:00:00 (UTC)

Regards,
Tobias

Ongoing disturbances in our API

We had some disturbances regarding the API to be offline for a short period including an SSL cert to be faulty.

The reason for this was that I was trying to implement a load-balancer to offload SSL termination from the API, but there was an unexpected period of DNS info cached and the load-balancer did not handle the requests properly.

Now everything is back in place as supposed and requests are rattling as normal.
Sorry for that 🙂

Kind regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our server

Hi there,

Our hosting provider DigitalOcean will make a routine maintenance on the physical machine where we are hosting our service on.

There is a little impact by this maintenance, which may be a few minutes of increased latency as well as small amounts of packet loss while they shift traffic to redundant devices. They will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.

Start: 2020-02-05 23:00:00 (UTC)
End: 2020-02-06 07:00:00 (UTC)

Regards,
Tobias

Minor changes in TibiaData API

There have been a minor change to the whole TibiaData API regarding CORS (Cross-Origin Resource Sharing).

This means, that you now can run requests with for example ajax towards the API right from your website.

The allowed HTTP methods are GET and OPTIONS.

Cross-Origin Resource Sharing (CORS) is a mechanism that uses additional HTTP headers to tell browsers to give a web application running at one origin, access to selected resources from a different origin. A web application executes a cross-origin HTTP request when it requests a resource that has a different origin (domain, protocol, or port) from its own.

Source: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTTP/CORS

Credits to a lot of you, who have requested this feature in the API.
Keep the reports coming and feel free to suggest even more new features!

Regards,
Tobias

Maintenance of our server

Hi there,

Our hosting provider DigitalOceans networking team will make changes to their core networking equipment to improve performance at the datacenter, where our service is located.

There is a little impact by this maintenance, which may be a few minutes of increased latency as well as small amounts of packet loss while they shift traffic to redundant devices. They will endeavor to keep this to a minimum for the duration of the change.

Start: 2020-01-07 21:00 UTC
End: 2020-01-08 01:00 UTC

Regards,
Tobias