Armory Data Mining? C#

[Robula]

Hey peeps.

A year or so ago I wrote a simple PHP based Armory parser using Curl. It functioned at a very basic level by pulling XML from the Armory and then iterating through the data pulling bits out such as Character names and stats.

This week I began teaching myself C# using the .NET 4.0 SDK in VS2010. So far with C# I've managed to write an app that does SQL based tasks. Today I want to start a new project based around my WoW characters. For this app I want to be able to be able to pull character and guild information from the WoW Armory to a file and use it in my application.

It's been a while since I've done anything with the Armory (I'm not even sure if I did it the right way last time I tried with PHP). The armory has undergone a number of changes since then and I would like to know how I can use C# to mine it. Is it still done with XML? How many different ways can I do this?



Any help would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks in advance.

[Arcilux]

You do not want to mine anymore, Blizzard released an API for accessing the information, I believe there is a forum on the official WoW site with links to various programming libraries and tutorials on how to use the new API

[Robula]

The API is all JSON files. I don't understand them or how I could even use them... They are just text?! They look like a way on indexing or referencing armory data. How I don't know. But I still need to pull data from the armory and I can't see how raw text can do this. Do I still need to use XML?


EDIT: I downloaded from Blizzards GitHub... Maybe I have the wrong things?

[garrotte]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...arse-json-in-c

Start there -- parsing JSON in C# is quite trivial.

Hopefully that helps.

[Robula]

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1...arse-json-in-c

Start there -- parsing JSON in C# is quite trivial.

Hopefully that helps.

Thanks. I've spent almost a whole day looking at how I can go about parsing the JSON data. In PHP it's as simple as using json_decode but in C# it's just mind blowing. I've looked into JSON.NET and had little luck getting any sort of result.

I'm thinking of just using a PHP script to pull character values from JSON and then import them into .NET.

Thanks for your help.