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<blockquote data-quote="lacan2002" data-source="post: 4861500" data-attributes="member: 61054">Hey, great thread! Any ideas on a general place to talk about DDI Api?Seems like there are a number of interested D&amp;D player/programmers out here, it would be nice to have a place for the hobbyist to share ideas.It looks like they've added a needed NameOnly parameter, which I've just been setting to &quot;false&quot;.Thanks very much to Asmor's examples, I got a simple ruby client working.For the interested, this requires the excellect <a href="http://xml-object.rubyforge.org/doc/" target="_blank">xml-object</a> and <a href="http://rest-client.heroku.com/rdoc/" target="_blank">restclient</a> gems, but once those are ready, getting an implicit object model that allows you to deal with the meat of the data is dead simple:[code]xml = RestClient.get('http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/CompendiumSearch.asmx/KeywordSearch?Keywords=mind+flayers&amp;tab=Monster&amp;NameOnly=false')data = XMLObject.new(xml) # That's it! Gives us a model implicitly!# get each monster and show some datadata.Results.Monster.each do |monster|&nbsp; puts &quot;#{monster.Name} is found in #{monster.SourceBook}&quot;&nbsp; # do something more interesting, like put into a ul in HTMLend[/code]The results for this look like this:Mind Flayer Infiltrator is found in Monster ManualMind Flayer Mastermind is found in Monster Manual</blockquote>

[QUOTE="lacan2002, post: 4861500, member: 61054"] Hey, great thread! Any ideas on a general place to talk about DDI Api? Seems like there are a number of interested D&D player/programmers out here, it would be nice to have a place for the hobbyist to share ideas. It looks like they've added a needed NameOnly parameter, which I've just been setting to "false". Thanks very much to Asmor's examples, I got a simple ruby client working. For the interested, this requires the excellect [URL="http://xml-object.rubyforge.org/doc/"]xml-object[/URL] and [URL="http://rest-client.heroku.com/rdoc/"]restclient[/URL] gems, but once those are ready, getting an implicit object model that allows you to deal with the meat of the data is dead simple: [code]xml = RestClient.get('http://www.wizards.com/dndinsider/compendium/CompendiumSearch.asmx/KeywordSearch?Keywords=mind+flayers&tab=Monster&NameOnly=false') data = XMLObject.new(xml) # That's it! Gives us a model implicitly! # get each monster and show some data data.Results.Monster.each do |monster| puts "#{monster.Name} is found in #{monster.SourceBook}" # do something more interesting, like put into a ul in HTML end[/code] The results for this look like this: Mind Flayer Infiltrator is found in Monster Manual Mind Flayer Mastermind is found in Monster Manual [/QUOTE]

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