Tag Archives: JSON

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

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

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

Happy New Year

We have slightly have changed plans from last year about new services and will focus at some other areas.

Our first goal for 2020 is to rewrite our API in another language (switching from php to golang).

Secondly we will go probably add some premium edition of out API, so that we can deliver a even better service in terms of faster processing of data and to be able to add more accurate data as it is today. We are not exactly there in how it will be, but stay tuned on that one!

And last but not least, we will look into doing it open-source soon, so that you then could contribute to our project or run the code on your own Kubernetes setup.

There will be some limitations when hosting it yourself, but more on that at another time.

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!

Best 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

Minor changes in TibiaData API

There have been a minor change to the TibiaData API regarding the houses view.

Bug-fixes

  • Houses view
    • beds have need rewritten from spelled to numeric values.

Credits to Lucas Zumpano 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

Minor changes in TibiaData API

There have been a minor change to the TibiaData API regarding the houses view.

Bug-fixes

  • Houses view
    • future prices have been removed and only show the new pricing.

Credits to Alla and Marcin 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

Minor changes in TibiaData API

There have been a minor change to the TibiaData API regarding the houses view.

Bug-fixes

  • Houses view
    • future prices have been adjusted from being a string to integer.

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

Regards,
Tobias

Minor changes in TibiaData API

There have been a minor change to the TibiaData API regarding the houses view.

Bug-fixes

  • Houses view
    • you receive future prices on rental through the API now as well.

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

Regards,
Tobias

Happy New Year

and we are not being lazy this year either!

We are planning to release an event service, where you can subscribe to information you want to get pushed to your API / client / application.

The exact way of how it will be implemented is not finished yet, but we will cover it in more details on a later state 🙂

Now go celebrate with your friends and we’ll keep you updated.

Regards,
Tobias