sealed interface Posted October 10, 2015 Share Posted October 10, 2015 I want my program to be able to look at all the classifieds listings on backpack.tf, but the only API that provides anything close to this is IGetUserListings, which requires a user's (64-bit) steamid as input. Is there a way to get a full and complete list of all the classifieds listings on backpack.tf? If so, how? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sealed interface Posted October 11, 2015 Author Share Posted October 11, 2015 Bump. I haven't gotten any more info on if this is possible. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mengh. Posted October 11, 2015 Share Posted October 11, 2015 I want my program to be able to look at all the classifieds listings on backpack.tf, but the only API that provides anything close to this is IGetUserListings, which requires a user's (64-bit) steamid as input. Is there a way to get a full and complete list of all the classifieds listings on backpack.tf? If so, how? I don't think this is suitable for just one user / a small host as you'll need a lot of space. I believe there are possibly more than half a million classified listings and thus, may cause technical problems due to the heavy overload. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sealed interface Posted October 12, 2015 Author Share Posted October 12, 2015 I don't think this is suitable for just one user / a small host as you'll need a lot of space. I believe there are possibly more than half a million classified listings and thus, may cause technical problems due to the heavy overload. OK. I expected there to be a huge amount of classifieds listings (at least a million lines' worth), but I don't think I expected that many. At least I know it's practically impossible. However, I wonder how trade.tf's "deals" process their information for backpack.tf classifieds. It would also be nice to be able to see all the classifieds listings for a particular item. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mengh. Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 OK. I expected there to be a huge amount of classifieds listings (at least a million lines' worth), but I don't think I expected that many. At least I know it's practically impossible. However, I wonder how trade.tf's "deals" process their information for backpack.tf classifieds. It would also be nice to be able to see all the classifieds listings for a particular item. Trade.tf have their own classifieds but, they don't have that many users on trade.tf. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
repp Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 How about pagination/lazy loading? The number of results could be limited and the client would have to tell the offset parameter. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
knavesmith Posted October 12, 2015 Share Posted October 12, 2015 OK. I expected there to be a huge amount of classifieds listings (at least a million lines' worth), but I don't think I expected that many. At least I know it's practically impossible. However, I wonder how trade.tf's "deals" process their information for backpack.tf classifieds. It would also be nice to be able to see all the classifieds listings for a particular item.They probably have a strong enough server that can process through every single classified listing. However, they don't save each listing for very long. IIRC, each listing gets removed after about a day or so. Plus, trade.tf only shows recently made/bumped classifieds, not every single one that exists at the moment. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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