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The source of the data

MazeChaZer edited this page Jan 16, 2014 · 1 revision

All the data about the tanks (image, name, country, tank class) is taken from the worldoftanks.eu Tankopedia.

Until version 1.11, I copy pasted all the data manually from the website, but in version 1.12 I created a crawler script that extracts all relevant data from the website and downloads all images automatically, which brings a great simplification into the update process when a new World of Tanks updates is published. The script is written in python, utilising BeautifulSoup and curl, and is located in the DataCrawler directory.

Since version 1.8 all the data is stored in an xml file in the app's resources, before it has been hardcooded in the program logic.

In the future I plan to include data from the other WoT servers and let the user choose from which server the tanks in the questions should come. It is also planned to crawl the data from the localized websites to provide proper translations of the tank names for users from non-english countries.

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