data API or ability to export data after games for analysis

Comments: 14

• 30 Mar, '20
  Dylan Merged

  When I play this as the board game, I love keeping a spreadsheet of all the roll counts and other stats throughout the game like the nerd that I am. I love that this platform displays all of that data (and more!) after the game ends, but I would love to be able to export it to an excel sheet so we can record trends over time!

• 13 Apr, '20
  Josh Pohlkamp-Hartt

  I think if this wants to become a premier platform for online Catan, they need to open up the data to the esports analyst community.

• 20 Apr, '20
  Dani Chu

  This would be really cool to have and would help us bring more interest to the site!

• 21 Apr, '20
  Sasha Wilde Admin

  "Exporting Score/Stats Info" (suggested by Dylan on 2020-03-30), including upvotes (7) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 22 Apr, '20
  Ron

  Would be incredible to access the game's data - especially during this time! Would be fun to share analysis on the games being played, strategies, etc. Hope this can happen!

• 22 Apr, '20
  Dani

  We could also share our work to be implemented into the platform. That could be site wide player rankings or live win probability models!

• 08 Oct, '20
  Neil

  This would be super cool to build machine learning type bots for the game!

• 22 Dec, '20
  Mousetail

  Note that there is a decent (websocket) API already, it just needs to be documented, and not changed as often. That way bots won't break every update.

• 19 Jan, '21
  JUAN Admin

  "Download stats" (suggested by Zack on 2021-01-19), including upvotes (1) and comments (0), was merged into this suggestion.

• 28 Apr, '21
  Mousetail

  This would be super useful for tournaments so they can automatically compile scores. Right now it's a lot of manual effort.

• 05 May, '21
  Uri Balsam

  I'm a catan enthusiast and data analyst and I'd love to contribute to the community by performing analyses and creating dashboards to promote more strategic gameplay. I think there should for sure be an API or export feature for everyone (or premium members) to export their game data.

• 07 Jul, '21
  Avantika

  Hey,
  I would absolutely love to contribute to this in any way!!

• 28 Aug, '21
  alex

  Hey guys, I would love to see a real API made available as with everyone else, in the meantime, I worked out a way to get some of the data by scraping and interpreting the chat window. I turned it into a web app that provides some basic stats but also the ability to download the data as a json file if anyone else wants to try it: https://settlersofcatan.anvil.app

• 04 Apr
  Josh

  the ultimate version of this would be a 'replay' feature (similar to chess.com and other chess servers), whereby you could copy a game in its entirety (including all rolls, placements, cards in hands etc) in text format, paste it back into a replay engine, and 'play' the game turn-by-turn, thereby seeing everyone's hands. The actual text generated wouldn't need to be complicated because the replayer engine could interpret based on roll, placement and turn action data only what was left in everyone's hands, but it would mean designing a replayer system to interpret that text.