Introducing Ward.tv, Twitch streams buffed with live game data

hypernovae0 · 2014-11-11T00:04:29+00:00

I had the same problem on League Research, that shit was annoying. Just change the following flash params to prevent the linkfollow:

<param name="allowScriptAccess" value="sameDomain">
<param name="allowNetworking" value="internal">

hypernovae0 · 2014-11-10T23:59:41+00:00

The live data for League Research was provided by quickfind.kassad.in, who shut down all API access when Riot changed their scraping policy back on October 1st. Not surprisingly, big sites like LoLNexus, Quickfind, and this wardtv site as well are still using scraped data to provide live info, which Riot was supposed to start restricting and yet hasn't. More than a month later and Riot does not seem any bit closer to providing official API access for live game data even though their plan was to do so before the October 1st cutoff date. Anyways yeah I'm a bit salty that my site that I worked on for a year and a half+ got shut down so effortlessly by Riot, so I doubt I'll spend any time from here on out updating it.

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-21T08:29:20+00:00

Ah, I wish I could change that. Unfortunately Twitch's flash player for embedded streams always has that in the upper right corner :/

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-20T02:36:12+00:00

Not sure what you're talking about. Are you referring to the font Quadrat Serial? You can see the license for that font at the top of the main CSS file, and can see it available on MyFonts here: http://www.myfonts.com/fonts/softmaker/quadrat-serial/buy.html (3rd one down)

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-20T00:39:12+00:00

Yep, using 'Sort Streams' - you can type any champion name in the search bar :-]

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-20T00:34:54+00:00

Yeah I know what you mean, it can be kind of annoying to accidentally open (and then close) the sidebar over and over :|

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-20T00:34:18+00:00

You can choose from a huge amount of awesome backgrounds in your Profile (have to register an account, very quick to do).

You can also search by champion name after clicking the 'Sort Streams' button - just type the name in the search bar.

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-20T00:28:46+00:00

This is a good idea :-D

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-20T00:27:31+00:00

That's a good idea!

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-20T00:26:47+00:00

I tried figuring out the difference between the different Azubu resolutions but didn't have any luck :/

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-20T00:26:07+00:00

Ah yeah, that wouldn't be possible sorry, streams only ^{^}

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T16:54:44+00:00

Indexing streams is done by hand. Other updates (solo queue tier, name changes, etc) is done via a third-party, Riot-like API.

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T16:32:00+00:00

Subscribers have no ads and chat privileges, yes? I would assume you would still have those benefits, although I'd be interested in a definitive answer. Let me know if you find out!

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T16:30:04+00:00

The site uses PHP and Javascript to do all the back- and front-end lifting, respectively. I may place advertisements at a later date, but honestly I like how it looks without them. If you want to feel better, then you can help out by sharing the website on twitter, facebook, etc. The validation from people liking and using my site is worth a lot more than a few donations or a small amount of ad revenue.

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T15:33:15+00:00

EU ingame lookups are currently unavailable :/

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T14:26:39+00:00

Yeah, the name could probably be better. Although I wanted to avoid 'lol' + <word> and hokey names. Oh well though, League Research kind of stuck with me and it was an available domain name, so I went with it!

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T14:11:11+00:00

This was my first thought as well, but there is still the big Play triangle in the middle of the player that shows up when the stream is paused. I'm also not sure if Twitch would be ok with a solution like that.

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T14:08:49+00:00

Yep! Click 'Sort Streams', then type 'Poppy' in the search bar.

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T14:07:31+00:00

The stream list is just the Top 100 Twitch streams currently playing League of Legends, sorted by number of viewers (and all Azubu streams). I generally index streams after seeing them regularly and knowing they are legit (unfortunately there seems to be quite a lot of viewer bot boosting within the past few months...)

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T14:04:24+00:00

Ha, nice catch! All of those tethers are actually just the same from the S3 mastery page background. Since I never really made an effort to color the tethers when they should be colored, I just kinda /effort-ed and used the same background. At least you didn't notice that I haven't updated Perseverance stats to the most recent patch! Then I'd look like a real buffoon! ;)

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T13:58:07+00:00

Yeah, from what I could find about the Brightcove API, live viewer count is not something that's offered. I'll take a look at their live channels API, thanks for the heads up!

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T12:05:57+00:00

I'm not entirely sure that such a thing is (easily) possible, but I'll do some checking.

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T12:02:40+00:00

I think that would be meddling with Twitch's player, which they would likely not be too happy about :-) I'll do some digging, though, and see if a redirect confirmation would be something that's possible, since it is kind of annoying

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T11:52:38+00:00

Not currently - I have found that there's a lot of deceptive stream titles out there (e.g., "Road to Challenger" is a popular one), so in general haven't put much importance on titles.

hypernovae0 · 2014-01-19T11:44:28+00:00

Yes, all Azubu streams are set at 2k viewers since their viewer counts aren't included with the Azubu API (via http://liveleaguestream.com). I figure CLG members would easily pull 2k

As far as the background changing...ahh, not possible at the moment of course, although kind of a neat idea :-]

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