Recipes and stats

<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">Greetings!

<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">I recently started using the API and am very impressed. Great job!

<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">I am trying to create a website or app that will use this API to provide information about

<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">a) quests
<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">b) recipes

<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">For the quests part, I am thinking of having the full list of quests (cached of course) and then if the user puts their username there, to see/check how many the user has done or not etc.

<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">For the recipes I envision something more elaborate. A user could visit the site and choose that they want say food, then click on the stats they want (STA/AGI) and the app should show all the available food with its duration that has STA and AGI.

<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">I am still in the design phase and haven't worked with data yet but I have a good grasp of what I need to do.

<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">Questions:

<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">I am looking at this URL for instance: census.daybreakgames.com/json/get/eq2/recipe/?crc=2599554236. The recipe is for Exotic Meat Flank and I get the components it requires. How can I get the stats that the item produced will offer?

<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">Also for the quests part, how can I find the unique ID of a character? I have tried using the ?name parameter for a character I have to look for by name, but the character returned is not mine. Could this be something that I am doing wrong or the data is not available yet?

<span style="font-family: 'georgia'">Thank you for all the pointers!

 

Yes I asked about Quests again and they still are not exporting automatically.

 

Well first step is to register here: http://census.daybreakgames.com/#devSignup

Second, use census.daybreakgames.com going forward since data.soe will be going away in the future.

As for the stats on the item, need to look up the item itself.
http://census.daybreakgames.com/xml/get/eq2/item/322573570

As for character ID. You have to search by character first name and server. BUT...every once in a while you may get more than 1 character with the same name on the same server. Still not sure the cause of this, may have something to do with old characters that were deleted. You may even get multiple instances of guilds with the same exact name on the same server. Again not sure the cause of this. Anyway once you get the char's name & server, from there you can pull out the char ID and use that going forward.

Lastly, I haven't checked but I do not believe ALL quest data has been exported yet.

 

Thank you for your replies.

This is a good starting point for me. I will post more questions as I move ahead with the development