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    API for coding?

    Hi, I'm hackman2007 from the Maximum PC Folding@Home team.

    I like how your stats site has a lot of graphs and has records of almost everything.

    I was talking to a programming friend today and he asked if there was an API to code against to pull stats for competitions and such?

    Is there such a thing available?

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    Not really no I'm afraid. Most stats sites do it different I guess.

    The underlying principles are the same though.

    Let's take boinc projects for an example seeing as they are identical.

    Each project exports a set of xml files.

    So, what is needed is the following :

    1. Download xml files
    2. Parse xml and insert/update to team/user/host database tables
    3. Perform ranking, check milestones, team movement, combined scores etc etc
    4. Slice and dice data as required.
    5. Display data

    Of course that is fairly simplistic. The database is probably the most important part to get right..

    Hope that helps, let me know if you need any help.

    Bok

    *EDIT* After re-reading your post, I'm thinking perhaps you meant an API to pull data from the Free-DC stats ? I don't as such, but then again I have written some custom outputs for other teams like Dutch Power Cows and TeAm Anandtech which they use to pull data daily/weekly so let me know what you are after and I can almost certainly accomodate..

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