Match Completion Time

Other Halo API Support
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Hello there!

I was looking at the Halo 5 API’s and noticed that “MatchCompletedDate” is a field for the Player Matches endpoint. It sounds like this was only ever intended to include the date and not the time of the match beginning judging by the name. However, I have a cool project idea that requires knowing a match’s start time in addition to start date. Is there any chance of this feature being added to the API in the future?

Thanks

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There was just a conversation about this on Reddit I think… the reasoning they gave was to protect player’s privacy that the match times will never include H:M:S data, but it’s worth asking for, I guess. I’d also like this if it were to be added.

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> There was just a conversation about this on Reddit I think… the reasoning they gave was to protect player’s privacy that the match times will never include H:M:S data, but it’s worth asking for, I guess. I’d also like this if it were to be added.

It’s interesting they think this is privacy issue. Many other games support this and even some extremely large games like LoL have API calls to get during game statistics. Destiny’s API provides HMS times as well.

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I don’t disagree with you, that’s just the reason someone remembered being used to justify this when we were talking about it on Reddit.

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The forum team states the same thing here: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/01b3ca58f06c4bd4ad074d8794d2cf86/topics/request-event-timestamps-in-carnage-report/f3a8b6c6-89ee-4313-aa6b-1bc7d0bd4f6f/posts?page=1#post4

Seems kind of silly- I mean if you were dead set of ‘stalking’ someone’s matches you could just request their last 25 matches every 30 seconds or so and slap a timestamp onto the match IDs you hadn’t seen before.

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> The forum team states the same thing here: https://www.halowaypoint.com/en-us/forums/01b3ca58f06c4bd4ad074d8794d2cf86/topics/request-event-timestamps-in-carnage-report/f3a8b6c6-89ee-4313-aa6b-1bc7d0bd4f6f/posts?page=1#post4
> Seems kind of silly- I mean if you were dead set of ‘stalking’ someone’s matches you could just request their last 25 matches every 30 seconds or so and slap a timestamp onto the match IDs you hadn’t seen before.

Thanks for that link! The OP in that thread had the same idea I had (coordinating films with games played). Unfortunately it doesn’t appear that will be possible due to this “privacy” concern.

And yeah, this kind of privacy protection is quite easy to circumvent provided the API refreshes information on match completion without a long delay.