Andytizer 269 Share Posted January 4, 2013 Quote from hungry_eyes: Hey, don't know how realistic this is - just posting it here for posterity. Basically, my idea is that at some point we introduce a box on the homepage that automatically grabs the Top 5 "Top Sellers" on Steam and links to their articles on PCGW. Obviously it would automatically update with Steam. I guess it just depends on what the Steam API is like? This is a very interesting idea - would absolutely love to have this functionality on our site. Steam has an official feed which only contains the top weekly sellers: http://store.steampowered.com/feeds/wee ... ellers.xml Options: 1) We'd need a way of parsing this feed and redirecting it to our pages. However, it's beyond my technical expertise. 2) Get someone to customise a crawler for us to scrape Steam's homepage and produce a top 10 list which links to our articles 3) Do it by hand on a set period, e.g. once a week. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hungry eyes 6 Share Posted January 4, 2013 We could start by doing it by hand, but eventualy it'd be nice to have it set up automatically :3 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Newmansan 30 Share Posted January 4, 2013 I think this is awesome. I have no idea how to automate it, but I do like this idea. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRWR 6 Share Posted January 6, 2013 already working on a PHP script for ya andy, it will be done shortly edit: http://pcgamingwiki.com/extras/xmlsteam.php its my current status on it, still actively working on it Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andytizer 269 Author Share Posted January 6, 2013 already working on a PHP script for ya andy, it will be done shortly edit: http://pcgamingwiki.com/extras/xmlsteam.php its my current status on it, still actively working on it Whoah extremely cool, how does it work? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JRWR 6 Share Posted January 6, 2013 A new HTMLet has now been put into place, every hour the list is updated steamtop Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Andytizer 269 Author Share Posted January 7, 2013 I have an implementation of this here: http://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/Home/Steam But I may wait for a Home page redesign (again!) before putting it in. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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