Tag Archives: Crawler

Master Blogging and Altitis Birthsday

So after a significant slowdown to my posting activities, this is my 300th post on Altitis. Incidentally, the blog is also 1 year (and 10 days) old now. Continue reading

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The need for better Arena Statistics – Armory Crawler v2 in design

Relmstein stirred an interesting debate in his last two posts and gave me the kick I needed to get back to work in earnest in improving my Arena Ladder crawler. In his first post, Relmstein made some pointed remarks about … Continue reading

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Armory Crawler – future plans

After my first series of runs and my recent hiatus, here are my plans for the armory crawler: Rewrite a V2 with a better data model for storage Include US BattleGroups Get a couple of late Season 2 Snapshots Harvest … Continue reading

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Coding an Armory Crawler in PHP – basic HOWTO

Upon special request, a few notes on how I build my crawler.What I’m using: A stock XAMPP (for windows in my case) package, containing PHP 5: I wanted 5 simply because it contains SimpleXML, which makes parsing easy and straightforward … Continue reading

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More Arena Compostion Statistics

Context: Data sampled tonight, 20h after arena reset. Limitations of the previous sample still apply.Without changing the Crawler code, I collected more ladders. The data collected is reproduced below by class and build, expressed in percentage of the total amount … Continue reading

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Top Arena 2v2 Team Composition – Blackout EU

Author’s note: I have quit playing WoW before patch 3.0.5. Warcraft-related content is no longer being updated, and information in this post may not reflect the live game any more. As promised, here’s the data gathered so far. Notes:Battlegroup: Blackout … Continue reading

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Crawler Progress Update

The crawler itself is now totally debugged (had one until the last minute which I kept missing which wouldn’t actually get the individual talent trees for each arena member). I gather all the data I want to for this project, … Continue reading

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New Crawler Delay

Crawler coding proper is done, I was able to collect a data sample from the top 2v2 teams in one battleground. Now it’s the statistical part which I have to work on.Not entirely sure how I want to compile and … Continue reading

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Crawler coding progress

Got parsing to work, coded through retrieving individual team members and storing them. Tomorrow, I only need to retrieve their builds and I’m done with the Crawling. After that, it’s all a matter of interpreting the collected data. Looking good.

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