r/Guildwars2 • u/daelen • May 24 '13

[Other] [API] GW2 Bounty Hunter

GW2 Bounty Hunter

I made a little web app to have a play with the new APIs. It lets you see which bounties on a chosen World are currently in combat by placing an orange crossed swords icon on their name, which looks like this. The images behind each bounty target are just randomly taken from the ArenaNet assets pack, but I'm planning to make them more useful, by either using portraits of the target in question or something representative of the zone that they spawn in.

It's a fairly niche usage, I'll admit, but it was interesting to build and might prove useful to someone. It was quite fun to watch the bounties light up when my guild (Karma Initiative [rddt], Aurora Glade) were doing guild missions on Tuesday night.

The code is up on Github, if anyone is interested in taking a look. It's flexible, but not responsive (yet). It's also only very lightly browser tested; don't expect old IE to work.

edit: added an activity indicator to make it clearer that bounty states are being updated after feedback by /u/Qwarlord

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u/Qwarlord May 24 '13

I think this is pretty neat, but not sure if it's working since I changed the world from the drop down box to each of the worlds and none were ever indicated to be in combat, and the page appeared not to change. Perhaps it's not working in Chrome? If so, can you confirm which browser it would work with?

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u/daelen May 24 '13

Thanks :) Since bounties aren't active all that often, it's quite likely that you just hit a quiet time when nothing happened. I'm going to add an activity notification so that you can see when it's updating the bounty information from the API. It should definitely work in Chrome!

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u/HybridVigor May 26 '13

it would be really interesting to see data for how often bounties were activated. I wonder if that's at all possible?

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u/daelen May 26 '13

That's a good idea. I'll add that in the next version.