Zkillbot

Inspiration

My friends and I love to mess with each other in video games and also show off the fancy things we do, but since it's a video game, all applications made have to be done by the players themselves.

What it does

The app I made pulls information from an API provided by the game, parses the data, filters it all out, searches for our specific ID's, and posts the kill link onto a discord server if one of us is present.

How I built it

I did a lot of research on how to pull information from a JSON, then did the same for an API, and worked from there!

Challenges I ran into

I had no idea what I was doing, so each step was a challenge honestly. The biggest one for me was nested attributes within the JSON file. In order to find my friend and I, I had to go several nested attributes deep. The other big issue was that when there was no kill recorded on the server for the last 10 seconds, it sends a null attribute. Python doesn't know what to do with this, so I had to find a work-around for that.

Accomplishments that I'm proud of

I'm really proud that in the time that I've been here, I've learned how to parse data from an online API, and push that data somewhere else completely unrelated. Before I came here, I had no idea how to do anything! Everything I learned was on the fly.

What I learned

-How to parse data -How to filter out the data to find kewords -How to pull other data from that same variable that contains a keyword (e.g. if the character ID 94418625 is present, I can pull how the character died, when, to who, etc.) -How to send the data that I've acquired to a whole different application

What's next for Zkillbot

I want to automate the process on a website. I've just started to learn how to use Django, but it's still slow going, so I'm not sure when I'll be able to finish it.

Built With

• python