Illuvium API

[twin jackal]

Simple Summary
Create API endpoints for (approved) community developers, incentivizing the development of tools and websites related to the Illuvium Gaming World.

Abstract
API endpoints are an important and necessary tool for developers to gather information and develop tools. Gathering information like top ranking, illuvials, combos, energy efficiency, card decks and so on will allow players to better position themselves in the battlefield, thus giving each player a better experience overall.

Rationale
We are seeing a greater number of guilds building up in discord. Each guild will ultimately need tools such as discord bots, websites and other tools. Taking Axie Infinity as an example, they had an infinity amount of issues with their API being down, high latency etc. Illuvium can start the development sooner than later and make sure it doesn't happen on this end.

Overview
TLDR; Make Illuvium start the development of API endpoints for (approved) developers to start building. A simple example of an API being used is the Twitter Lands Bot (https://twitter.com/Illuviumlands), which utilizes the ImmutableX API to provide live sales data for each land. The possibilities are endless with Illuvium API.

By enabling API for Illuvium Zero and Illuvium Overworld, users will benefit and have a better in-game experience.

[past timber]

I’ve spoke spoken to Johnny about APIs in the past and its on the radar as something to do, just wasn’t highest on the priority list if that makes sense

[twin jackal]

I believe with the beta release and Illuvium Zero around the corner, this would be ideal for devs to start developing tools.

[past timber]

Yeah this was a few months ago, obviously IZ was priority at that time so worth bringing up again

[ionic wasp]

Makes sense to me, the community being able to build 3rd party tools around the ecosystem would be nice.

It might be prudent to include at least some of the specific data you are hoping to get access to. I dont know if "make an API" is super actionable without more details.

[twin jackal]

I've added some examples, like ranking, illuvials (which includes all info like, class, strenght, abilities, illuvials images, etc.), energy efficiency, decks and so on.

[past timber]

Johnny is on holiday as he’s being going hard to get this IZ Alpha with the team to get it to you guys but will be good to bring up once he’s back

[twin jackal]

Cool, definitely. Not sure if the would require more devs to focus on. Do you think this can be sent as an IIP? Another thing that can be done now is approving and "discovering" community developers by giving them a special "Community Dev" role.

[ionic wasp]

Something specific I would really like to see is a 'match results' output. It could include data for each match showing the winner, loser, and some kind of 'score' to indicate how much the winner won by.

For tournaments or any other kind of pre-scheduled match the participants could be shown ahead of time and the results updated live so people could make stuff like live brackets to show how their guild or favorite players are doing.

[past timber]

Not sure it needs an IIP because I believe it’s already planned as part of development. But like I said I’ll look more into as well. As for community dev roles, possibly something we can do yes and def doesn’t require IIP. Something we can discuss with IT ops if it’s something we think is needed/wanted. What do you think are the benefits of giving them a role like this?

[twin jackal]

By giving them the role, I believe it would actually incentivize other developers to build some sort of tool on top of illuvium. It's also a way to confirm they are a community developer. You see such roles on other channels. As for access to the API, only approved users with the roles would have access. It would ultimately get these developers together to buidl.

[past timber]

Does it encourage quality tools being built though? Or just anyone throwing anything together to get a role? We would likely need to vet these tools to ensure they are at least useable and beneficial maybe 🤔.

[twin jackal]

By throwing anything together you mean what? I believe anyone that is building anything on top of illuvium is a great idea. 🤷

[past timber]

I mean some people just try to get roles to have a role, you know. I agree people building is great, but I'm just thinking about whats the parameters for gaining the role

[wary ember]

Thanks @twin jackal for bringing this up again. We've been patiently waiting for any news or updates on this as well.

[tough flint]

Since IZ released, any news on this?

[past timber]

Nick commented on twitter about apis, essentially nothing will come until after open beta but we are collecting feedback on what kinds of things people want

[tough flint]

As for the collection, price history would be nice. We can already fetch (via Illuvium api) Volume history and high/low prices of each tier which is nice.

And I'm brainstorming about resource tracker. Not sure if it has any potential to be used but tracking resources that are (1)made within land and then (2)transffered to illuvidex could be a nice monitoring device. This way, we could, let's say, have a heatmap of resources and maybe guilds could offer trades to each other.

[marble sonnet]

I agree that the priority needs to be seriously considered. I would be quite dissapointed to see the game release without apis already in place. I'd rather the game be delayed 1-2 months if it meant apis were ready.

[obsidian bloom]

I think waiting until after open beta would be a mistake. Building out simple UIs can pay so many dividends to the illuvium team as it shouldn’t be too much effort and then you get “free” engineering time from all the people who want to improve the experience for people.
(Made up numbers) taking 100 hours of engineering time could = 1000s of hours gained.

All that being said at the end of the day I understand certain things need to be prioritized over others.

[silver scaffold]

I’d like to get all staking/ILV data to be able to create a staking/revids management app.

[marble sonnet]

This is onchain. Not entirely sure its relevant to the team

[silver scaffold]

Finding and interpreting all data isn’t straight forward. There are multiple contracts with multiple versions. Illuvium are already showing most of the data on web. The APIs would essentially be a wrapper for querying the contracts.

[marble sonnet]

I get that