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A Ruby library for the Battle.net Community Platform API

Build Status

Battlenet is a Ruby library that exposes Blizzard's Community Platform API.

Installing

Battlenet is available as a Ruby gem. Install it via

[sudo] gem install battlenet

Use

Simply create an instance of Battlenet, passing in an optional region as a symbol (defaulting to US), and then optionally a public and private key (for app authorization).

Default options:

api = Battlenet.new

Specifying a region:

api = Battlenet.new :eu

Specifying a public and private key:

api = Battlenet.new :us, 'public', 'private'

Battlenet is backed by the excellent HTTParty gem, which means you can make get requests very simply.

api.get '/item/12784'

Battlenet also provides modules for each section of the API, providing easy access to the resources.

api.item '12784'
api.character 'Nazjatar', 'Cyaga', :fields => "stats,talents,quests"

Configuring

Failing Silently

By default, if Battlenet receives a non-200 response from the Battle.net API, it will throw an exception. You can turn this behavior off via the fail_silently attribute:

Battlenet.fail_silently = true

Localization

The Battle.net API supports localization via a query string parameter. Battlenet can transparently handle setting this parameter for you on every request. Just set the locale attribute:

Battlenet.locale = "en_GB"

Please note that each region only supports certain locales.

Battle.net API Documentation

The documentation for the Battle.net API can be found at http://blizzard.github.com/api-wow-docs/.

What's Missing

The following features are planned but not yet supported:

  • Caching support via Memcached, Redis, etc.
  • If-Last-Modified header support

Contributing

If you would like to contribute to the project, please feel free to do so. Just fork the project, commit your changes (preferably to a new branch), and then send me a pull request via GitHub. Be sure to add tests for your feature or fix.

Please do not change the contents of the VERSION file, or if you do, do so in a separate commit so that I can cherry-pick around it.

License

Battlenet is released under the MIT license.

Copyright (c) 2011 Brandon Tilley

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