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Message: <blockquote data-quote="invitro" data-source="post: 199590" data-attributes="member: 446">Wowee, the LAW finally caught me... <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite3" alt=":(" title="Frown    :(" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":(" /> <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />No.  <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" />  It is almost certainly more work than you think to duplicate this with the little tidbits like glitched-score ignoring.  I say "no" because there are some things you could do that would help greatly for hopefully tiny bits of work!  See below...I don't like to overload servers.  I was a webmaster / databasemaster / serveradmin for some years myself.The main reason the method takes so long is that your webpage can only show 10 scores at a time.  If it showed 100 at a time, it would take 10 times less time.The optimum solution for me would be to allow me to download the leaderboards as a single .csv file, through the web.  No API needed <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite1" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":)" /> and one export of the .csv daily, with the data being what they are now, *plus* the platform that the score was made on.  (Many people including me think these rankings could be improved a good bit with platform data, which you can't get from the webpage.)  Well, if you have the date/time the score was made/stored as a field, then that would potentially be useful too.You could even just copy the raw database file to a web-accessible place if it didn't have anything sensitive... I'm sure there is a way to extract data from any non-encrypted database.I would prefer that the data be available to everyone but if privacy is important you could slap a simple serverauth on the .csv URL and throw me (and certain other people) a username/passwd.I hope there is a way to come to an easy solution that everyone likes.  I will do what I can to continue these rankings up to but not including the point of making Farsight sore at me.  I do thank you guys for not coming down on me or hiding the leaderboards.  But I understand that you may want or need to stop the scraping of the data.(I hope that is sensible... I don't have much time to post/edit now but wanted to reply ASAP.)</blockquote>

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