Comments - Development - Duncan Mackenzie .NET

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Zak — Mon, 23 Feb 2009 04:45:02 GMT

Great API!!! We use it for our Video-Game-Page www.konsolero.ch fore more Details about the Xbox Live Account of every User... An Example of my Profile -> http://www.konsolero.ch/?xbl=Zak85

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

DaG Morpheus — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 22:31:55 GMT

Thanks for this Service! Great Work! I'm using your Service for a little Leaderboard-Mod (http://www.daddelgreise.de/forum/leaderboard.php). Is it possible to get detailed information about the user-achievements?

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Justin Kalland — Thu, 19 Feb 2009 17:25:58 GMT

Currently using this XBL data feed for a site I am developing called GameKrib.com (social networking sit for gamers). Your services are much appreciated and add a VERY valuable feature to the user experience. I cache information for at least two hours to help keep bandwidth use down. THANKS!

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

dave-0 — Wed, 18 Feb 2009 05:52:55 GMT

Great service, I am trying to use this for a gamertracking site which will allow for gamerscore competitions on specific games.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Duncan Mackenzie — Sat, 14 Feb 2009 09:18:02 GMT

Thanks for all the great info folks!

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Vindictive — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 05:33:11 GMT

This service is great.. I've been searching all over for something like this and I find myself fortunate to have stumbled onto you! We are developing something for our website http://101tactical.com

Thanks so much!

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

UL Legend FR — Mon, 18 Aug 2008 11:07:00 GMT

Thanks for the service, I love it! It's a shame that microsoft doen't have an official service like this that is open to the public.

I'm planning to use this on a currently "unannounced" web project to verify a gamertag exists and gather profile information. I'll post a link once the site is launched.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Dudditz — Sun, 17 Aug 2008 16:18:00 GMT

I found that someone had written an information tab for IPB and was inspired to write a similar setup for vbulletin.
This is still in development stages and the only places it can be seen is at http://www.fbitheclan.com and http://imgaming.net
If you view any members forum profile, you will see a tab titled Xbox Live Info which displays the users games using your feed.
I hope to integrate this into a vbulletin Product that I am currently writing using API from one of my sites http://www.pimpmygamercard.com
I dont have the XCDP so I am very limited on what and how I accomplish things.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

SmokestormX — Fri, 25 Jul 2008 19:12:00 GMT

Heya, Just wanted to thank you.

I'm using it over on noobtoob.com for some of our gamers. I really appreciate the service you provide here.

Steve
www.Shadowreality.co.uk

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Atteman — Thu, 24 Jul 2008 03:33:00 GMT

Great service.
We use it on our site http://www.teamxl.nl to display Xbox live status and scores for our members.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Jorge Asch — Wed, 23 Jul 2008 18:24:00 GMT

I've emailed you several times, with no response. I started using your service to generate a webpage of Online friends to check from our iPhones, but my connection was blocked by your servers. I would appreciate if you email me back so we can work out the technical problem.

Thanks.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Ivar Breivik — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 14:09:00 GMT

We use this service on our norwegian Xbox 360 community site, http://playgamers.net/, to display online status and track gamescore for our members.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Gareth Edwards — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 05:28:00 GMT

Also, just as others have mentioned it, i noticed that the feed is occasionally unavailable as well.

My "tip" (not that its exactly a massive insight) to peeps who are finding this is to make the request only when necessary and store it as a session variable or similar.

Limits hits to Duncan's service and, lets be honest, most stuff doesn't need exactly-to-that-minute data!

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Gareth Edwards — Mon, 21 Jul 2008 04:16:00 GMT

Wotcha,

For her birthday, I set up a site to allow my Missus to assign me "achievements" to earn round the house etc:

http://www.xboxwife.com

It uses your feed to incorporate my "real" achievement/gamer details. Something i'll probably expand out more in future.

Let me know if you want more info!

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Michael B — Sun, 20 Jul 2008 14:38:00 GMT

I am currently working on incorporating it into a project of mine. THANK GOD FOR GOOGLE. SEARCHED FOREVER TO FIND THIS AND AM VERY GLAD I DID!!! anyway seems to be having some trouble, my gamertag was working fine for about 3 hrs while I worked on the script and then stopped, works for other gamertags though. Oh well, hey its a great free service and is much appreciated. Will provide link when the project is finished.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Danny — Thu, 17 Jul 2008 00:29:00 GMT

http://www.greatgamers.net

I really appreciate this service.. I hope it never goes away. I think it may be very difficult to find this data any other way. It appeared to be down for a couple of days a few days ago and I almost cried. :)

You are a good man! :)

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Mark Castro — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:11:00 GMT

Ooops, sorry for double posting but my previous comment got cut off somehow. Anyway the link is http://tinyurl.com/6qt9nl

Thanks!

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Mark Castro — Tue, 15 Jul 2008 19:08:00 GMT

I'm using your API for an AppleScript Adium Xtra located here: http://adiumxtras.com/index.php?a=xtras

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Adam Werner — Sat, 12 Jul 2008 23:17:00 GMT

Thank you for making this data available. I've been doing some widget/gadget development and I've tapped the simple GET page to provide XBox Live ID data to an iGoogle gadget. I've not officially "published" it at this time, but I'm happy to share a URL if there's any interest.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

potatoz — Sun, 29 Jun 2008 17:18:00 GMT

Dude, I love it!

RE: The new and improved Channel 9 has shipped!

Adam Kinney — Thu, 12 Jun 2008 01:37:00 GMT

Congratulations, its finally here!

I don't know if it has settled in yet. I'm still blinking my eyes expecting it not to be there when I open them.

RE: The new and improved Channel 9 has shipped!

Vaibhav — Wed, 11 Jun 2008 17:33:00 GMT

Hey Duncan, Congratulations to you and your team. The new site looks awesome compared to some of the others from the gallery.

Would it be possible for you to share the development process you used for realizing this from start to finish. For example, if you used Scrum or a variant of it, what your sprint cycle was, how did you tackle bugs that came in for the other properties when you were working on C9 codebase.

Thanks,
Vaibhav

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

CreepinJesus — Tue, 03 Jun 2008 14:11:00 GMT

I am! :) And I have to say, its rather good. Thanks for the great service!

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

AnimuX — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 15:43:00 GMT

I'm also using the API to list the online status of my gaming clan members on the website. This script grabs member data from the forums mysql dbase then accesses the API and caches the xml data (to avoid multiple hits in less than 60 seconds). The final output is a nice list the clan can use to see who is on Xbox Live and what game they're currently playing.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

AnimuX — Sun, 01 Jun 2008 13:14:00 GMT

I created a plug-in for Invision Power Board. Users registered on the forums have a XBL Info tab located on their personal profiles. When you click the tab it displays their gamer card info and a list of games played and raw number of points and achievements. The script caches data on the website as an xml file and will not create more than one web request for the same gamer tag in less than 60 seconds to avoid hammering the service. PHP using CURL, simplexml and your API made this easy! Thanks again!

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Mike Simmonds — Sat, 26 Apr 2008 02:57:00 GMT

I'm currently using it on http://mikesimmonds.co.uk.

Thank you.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

steven brown — Fri, 25 Apr 2008 20:09:00 GMT

has your api been on a go slow the last few days?

my friends list takes ages to load at first i thought it was script, then i tried a second host but it didnt fix it so i thought i would ask if its your fault :P

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Patrick Cavit — Mon, 21 Apr 2008 10:15:00 GMT

I'm using it for some graphing stuff at http://tivac.com/xbox and for a Vista sidebar gadget at http://patcavit.com/xbox-live-gadget

Thank you so much for this API, it's amazing!

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Scott Deason — Fri, 18 Apr 2008 16:31:00 GMT

My website in in my name. as i mentioned in my email, AWESOME service, and i hope you can implement a "metatag" service as well.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Eric — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 20:55:00 GMT

I'm using it currently on my website, http://www.gamertagnation.com. Though, I am hoping to be miraculously chosen for the XCDP programm at www.xbox.com.

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Michael — Tue, 08 Apr 2008 02:09:00 GMT

I'm using it too but the project is currently work in progress and not only yet. I hope that it's possible to include the bio, location and name information. :)

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

steven brown — Mon, 07 Apr 2008 13:31:00 GMT

i used it for a clan list and leaderboard on www.clansux.co.uk

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Carsinigin — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 07:57:00 GMT

I'm using your data feed on the website http://GamerScoreGoal.com/

RE: Using my Xbox Live data service?

Christian Liensberger — Fri, 04 Apr 2008 04:41:00 GMT

Cool, I didn't even know that you wrote something like this. Awesome!

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hamdi — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 13:39:00 GMT

RE: Trying to open a file into VS 2005/2008 ... never works from Explorer

Derek Greer — Thu, 07 Feb 2008 19:07:00 GMT

I'm also experiencing the same problem on Windows Vista. Did you ever get this resolved?

RE: Trying to open a file into VS 2005/2008 ... never works from Explorer

Erik Porter — Sun, 30 Dec 2007 18:19:00 GMT

Yup, that problem really sucks. I actually think it's Windows related. I never had the problem when using VS2K5 on Windows XP, but once I switched to Windows Vista it's always happened (even after VS2K5 SP1 and VS2K8). :(