Blog Update: Steam Web APIs

[fullmetalninja]

[url]http://www.teamfortress.com/post.php?id=4014&p=1[/url]
[IMG]http://www.teamfortress.com/images/posts/stockphoto.jpg[/IMG]
The item system in Team Fortress 2 generates a ton of data. Up to this point we've provided access to this data through some hacked-together scripts that, frankly, were old and creaky before they went live. Ah, but now...

Pow! Shiny new web APIs that are officially supported. (Find out how to use them here.) This new system comes with a few new features:

* Output can now be provided as JSON, XML, or VDF (Key Values)
* The current item schema is available as an API call, so you don't have to dig items_game.txt out of a patched client
* It is much easier for us to add new APIs with the new system, so it should happen more often

For now, the old system will continue to run, and all applications built on it will continue to work. A word of warning, though: At some point down the road we will turn it off. So if you're using it, please give the new Steam Web APIs a try.

[ShockbattMatt]

Stock photo

It is obviously a photo of Robin's family.

[NeoDement]

i love the pic

[TizzYcho]

duh

[Populus]

All I can say that this post fills me with rage.

Infinite, pure, rage.

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And then suddenly, happiness, and confusion, because I honestly dunno if this is a ARG or not.

[xZolo49]

Why would a family get together to play TF2.

[GastricTank]

No golden wrenches here, boss.

[Flipschtik]

The Family Update.

Totally saw it coming.

[Eat Children]

And not a single fuck was given that night.

[Penguiin]

why add that picture at all is the real question

[Hellduck]

Because they're quite clearly fucking with us. Who the hell would put a watermarked image in a TF2 blog post?

[xpod1]

They watermarked it

[xZolo49]

But why

[suttles]

Nice picture.

[Leaf Runner]

What happened to grandma? :frown:

[Hellduck]

[QUOTE=xpod1;23044141]They watermarked it[/QUOTE]

Exactly.

[CharlesMan]

[QUOTE=xZolo49;23044205]But why[/QUOTE]
Because it's funny. Valve is funny. They tend to do funny things.

[Spazi]

What would this API do basically?

[Velguador]

[QUOTE=Talishmar;23045380]What would this API do basically?[/QUOTE]

Basically, it's for creators of websites like tf2items.com
Most likely, if you don't know what the API does/is, you don't need it.

[Javyer]

[QUOTE=Velguador;23045830]Basically, it's for creators of websites like tf2items.com
Most likely, if you don't know what the API does/is, you don't need it.[/QUOTE]

Anyway, can you explain what it does? I'm curious

[placeboing]

hahah, love the stock photo joke

[JoshJosh117]

[img]http://www.istockphoto.com/file_thumbview_approve/11892297/2/istockphoto_11892297-happy-family-using-a-laptop-at-home.jpg[/img]

[Pardalis]

[QUOTE=xZolo49;23043802]Why would a family get together to play TF2.[/QUOTE]
They're coding a website with the API.

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[IMG]http://knowyourmeme.com/i/000/050/669/original/single_fuck.jpg?1274585020[/IMG]

[editline]12:38AM[/editline]

[QUOTE=CharlesMan;23045236]Because it's [B]Trolling[/B]. Valve is [B]a troll[/B]. They tend to [B]troll us[/B].[/QUOTE]

[xpod1]

[QUOTE=Leaf Runner;23044669]What happened to grandma?[/QUOTE]

More like what happened to Two Face Junior down there

[Blargtastic]

Oh you are fucking shitting me.

They did not just pull that.

Those fuckers, made an entire hype post to get us anticipating something big and hit us with a fucking [i]API[/i] update.