Server browser on quakeone.com

[Bruce2]

Can anyone tell me how this is done?

Doing some research looks like there's a tool qstat that will query for all the servers.

Is this site using that tool then parsing the results?

Thanks

[Tremor]

I've got qstat installed and it works wonderfully. Not sure if the site is using it or not, but I would imagine that it is.

[Solecord]

Yes, qstat it is right now. If we ever get it done, we may be moving to a custom coded solution thanks to Efess.

[Bruce2]

I'm 1/2 way done with a c# implementation that I'll probably expose through some rest server.

I've found several java implementations you could probably use but I haven't tested.

I've also come across several php libraries which I might ultimately end up using because the first implementation would require asp.net or IIS to host and not sure I want to go that route.

I'll keep you updated.

Qstat would be fastest I believe but I'm trying to grasp the whole querying the server concept.

I'll share my results if I ever get there.

Thanks solocord for answering.

[Efess]

Bruce - I have already have a C# implementation, I provided the source at one point but I can give you SVN access if you want to look around.

servers.quakeone.com does have some rest api's (for proquake or qrack) I can set up more easily (it's PHP). This is what solecord was talking about.

[Bruce2]

Awesome!

What I want to do is pull this info down to iPhone,BB and android.

Anyway you can expose the query results in JSON?

I'll provide more info when I get home.

Maybe we can collaborate.

[Efess]

Here's the JSON feed the site uses:
http://servers.quakeone.com/index.php?format=json

I can create a custom one if this doesn't meet your needs

[Bruce2]

Looks good.

Let me give this a try and see how it looks.

Only thing I can think of right now to customize would be to filter results by region or mod. That way when looking at it from mobile there isn't a huge list of irrelevant servers.

[Bruce2]

Haven't had time to test.

First wire frame.

iPhone Mockup

I don't know what to put on tab bar. Probably Servers, (the grand idea i'm not ready to share yet), maybe 1 or 2 more ideas (open to input).

Edit: Oh, this is an open collaboration tool so anything you change will change it permanently. Ya I probably shouldn't share this but it's not hard to reproduce.

Edit2: Should the server browser be mod specific? So the image you see above would be after you click CTF, DM, FFA etc.

[R00k]

servers.quakeone.com does have some rest api's (for proquake or qrack)

effess I forgot the exact addy to get the plain text output for Qrack to read...

[Efess]

Rook- when I ported the site from ASP.NET to PHP, I didn't convert the QRack version because I didn't think you were going to use it. I can convert it if you'll use it, unless you can use the feed for proquake:

http://servers.quakeone.com/index.php?format=proquake

[bluntz]

I dunno if this will help but XQF is a gui for qstat and I think you may be able to get the source to look at.XQF

[R00k]

i'll use the pq version so u dont need to fuss with anything

[Efess]

It's just string concatenation : )

[Bruce2]

Hi All,

Sorry been away a bit but the json feed is working great. I'm still in the early stages of DEV but here's a quick look.

This all needs to be custom formatted w/ num of players maybe port etc. but just wanted to share. Thanks efess!