Runescape offers an interface for fansites to grab hiscores info without having to load the entire hiscores page and use complicated scripts to pull out each piece. You can get the info by visiting this page: http://hiscore.runescape.com/index_lite.ws?player=yourusername
The page will feed back info in line break and comma separated form. Each skill is separated by a line break and rank/level/xp are seperated by commas. In its default form it’s not very usable, you’d need to write some sort of script to format it. I was bored and decided to make a PHP script that converts the page into JSON format, making it very easy to use with a Javascript front-end.
array(
"Attack", "Defence", "Strength",
"Hitpoints", "Ranged", "Prayer",
"Magic", "Cooking", "Woodcutting",
"Fletching", "Fishing", "Firemaking",
"Crafting", "Smithing", "Mining",
"Herblore", "Agility", "Thieving",
"Slayer", "Farming", "Runecrafting",
"Hunter", "Construction", "Summoning",
"Dungeoneering"
),
"minigames" => array(
"Duel Tournaments", "Bounty Hunters",
"Bounty Hunter Rogues", "Fist of Guthix",
"Mobilising Armies", "B.A Attackers",
"B.A Defenders", "B.A Healers",
"Castle Wars Games", "Conquest"
)
);
$name = strtolower($name);
$connection = fopen('http://hiscore.runescape.com/index_lite.ws?player='.$name, 'rb');
if($http_response_header[0] === 'HTTP/1.1 200 OK') {
$data = stream_get_contents($connection);
$data = explode("\n", $data);
$overall = explode(',', $data[0]);
$stats['overall'] = array("Rank" => $overall[0], "Level" => $overall[1], "XP" => $overall[2]);
for($i = 0; $i < 25; $i++) {
$cItem = $hiscores['stats'][$i];
$num = explode(',', $data[$i+1]);
$stats['skills'][$cItem] = array("Rank" => $num[0], "Level" => $num[1], "XP" => $num[2]);
}
for($i = 0; $i < 9; $i++){
$cItem = $hiscores['minigames'][$i];
$num = explode(',', $data[$i+27]);
$stats['minigames'][$cItem] = array("Rank" => $num[0], "Score" => $num[1]);
}
$stats = json_encode($stats);
$stats = str_replace('-1', '', $stats);
if($_GET['lowercase'] === 'yes'){
$stats = strtolower($stats);
}
return $stats;
}
else {
return '{"error":"User not found"}';
}
fclose($connection);
}
if(isset($_GET['user'])) {
$cStats = getStats($user);
if(isset($callback)) {
echo $callback.'('.$cStats.')';
}
else
{
echo $cStats;
}
}
else
{
echo 'Usage:
';
echo '- user=username
';
echo '- Optional: callback=funcName
';
echo '- Optional: lowercase=yes (all json will be lower case)
';
echo 'Callback function is used for cross-domain AJAX requests';
}
?>
You can access the script here or download it here. For usage information visit the script page.
Old School Runescape version available here
JSON Formatter for Runescape Hiscores by pceasies is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-Share-Alike 3.0 Unported License