Any Ruby devs around?

Other Halo API Support
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I’m an intermediate-level JavaScript/iOS dev, but I’ve been wanting to get into Ruby. I also don’t have experience working with large amounts of data, so I figured the Halo 5 API would be a great opportunity to do both of those things. But I already know I’m going to need some help, so if anyone here is well versed in Ruby, I will greatly appreciate any help you can offer :slight_smile:

As for the project - I want to essentially make a daily arena leaderboard that ranks the top 25 or so players according to different stats (most kills, most wins, etc) and have this update/reset daily. The first issue is getting every gamertag. My current approach:

  • Use someone’s gamertag to get their 25 most recent games - Obtain the player list for each of those games - Add each player’s gamertag from each game to a database of some sort (if the gamertag hasn’t already been added, of course) - Use that list to get the 25 most recent games from each player - Rinse and repeatI don’t know the most quick/efficient way of getting/obtaining that data, though. I made a (very) quick code mock-up to get an idea of how I could go about it, but I know there’s a more efficient way. Also there’s the issue of knowing when all gamertags have been obtained.
    Here’s the code: https://ghostbin.com/paste/exz9k

Any input would be awesome! :slight_smile:

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Interesting approach. You’ll probably find that you’ll end up in a closed loop (not finding all GTs), due to various reasons such as time zones, geographic locality and skill. If you had a good seed population (perhaps head to HaloTracker’s leaderboards and manually pull a large amount of GTs) this approach may work.

I do not know of any other way to retrieve a list of all gamertags, I doubt it is possible. HaloTracker only shows players who have searched their GT on the site (AFAIK).

All that being said, HaloTracker already does basically what you are proposing. e.g..