aalises / age-of-empires-ii-api

API for Age of Empires II Built with Flask-RESTFul + SQLAlchemy

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age-of-empires-ii-api's Issues

Should data be updated manually in csv files or we have an API we can refer to and get latest data?

Hey,

I really like the structure of the data provided from the API and I could see few things are not updated with regards to the latest patches. Just wanted to know if we need to manually modify the CSV when changes are pushed as patches or did you use any API to actually get the data and format it in this way?

Im trying to build a quick Tech Tree app 🤷 so just wanted to know how data would be updated here so I can use it.

Also, really cool feature I like is the applies_to and the develops_in properties. Its good to have those extra pointers but again, was that derived from any source?

Can't access API from CodeSandbox using Axios

I'm trying to use this API to make a simple app in React and TS to show AOEII civilizations. For this purpose I'm using Axios to fetch data, but I can't make it work. I can fetch the data from Postman, Curl, Chrome (pasting the GET url in the search bar) and when I try to make a request from my CodeSandbox App, It throws a Network Error, addressing there's a CORS policy blocking my request, but then how am I capable of fetching that particular data from Chrome, Postman and Curl then? Postman doesn't help either by not telling me which headers it uses to send the request.

I'm getting a 502 Network Error that looks like this:

/s/youthful-browser-mx5ix?file=/src/App.tsx:307-319:1 Access to XMLHttpRequest at 'https://zqixi-lsp.sse.codesandbox.io/socket.io/?type=go-to-definition&EIO=3&transport=polling&t=NTzf459' from origin 'https://codesandbox.io' has been blocked by CORS policy: No 'Access-Control-Allow-Origin' header is present on the requested resource.

Application error

There is "Application error" on demo: https://age-of-empires-2-api.herokuapp.com

Incorrect Model for Structure

The Model in the documentation says there is a description for Structure but in the API there is no descprition given.

Application Error

Hey guys, looks like the API is down.

https://age-of-empires-2-api.herokuapp.com/

Incorrect spelling of Byzantine civ

Byzantines is spelled as "Bizantines" in the api.

Not a huge issue but just means an extra data cleaning step is required on front end.

Incorrect Model for Civilization

Issue

let unique_unit: String
let unique_tech: String

Should be

let unique_unit: [String]
let unique_tech: [String]

Correct Model

struct Civilization: Codable {
    let id: Int
    let name: String
    let expansion: String
    let army_type: String
    let unique_unit: [String]
    let unique_tech: [String]
    let team_bonus: String
    let civilization_bonus: [String]
}

URL dead

This url doesnt work anymore.
https://age-of-empires-2-api.herokuapp.com

API link is not longer available

This URL is not working anymore https://age-of-empires-2-api.herokuapp.com

Free hosting idea

From the API spec, it appears it only supports GET all records, or one record by type. Therefore, this dataset could be traversed and all possible queries could be written as JSON files. Then, using Github pages or Cloudflare pages, you could serve all these JSON files for free on a GH/CF domain, or on a custom domain you provide.

Also, if the clients of this data are only web browsers, then you could use this strategy https://phiresky.github.io/blog/2021/hosting-sqlite-databases-on-github-pages/ to async query a static hosted (free) SQLite DB

request for update

You can update data for Age of empires II - definitive edition?