Hi guys,

 

Not sure if this is the right place to ask this, but it does say ALL questions in here, so here goes!

 

I'm looking to do some research into how the fluctuations in market prices of some items affects others, especially items which are commonly used in multiple skills. In order to do this, I need to build a database of items, prices, processes, etc. That means I need to be able to get up to date market price information on hundreds (or thousands if the research is to be regarded as significant) of items pretty much instantly.

 

So- my question is as follows: Tip.it displays up to date market information, presumably scraped from the grand exchange section of the RS website and lists the time and date of the "last snapshot". Could someone please either explain to me how this is achieved, or point me in the direction of this information online so that I can educate myself? I have spent quite some time trying to find this out, but as I don't even know what this process is called, it makes it different to search for!

 

Ideally I would like to import data to Excel, but building a specific html document for this task shouldn't be a problem either. I would be grateful for any guidance I could get!

 

Thanks,

Jasquith

I'm not sure, but each item does have a unique number, hence URL, that identifies it, so once you can figure it out for one page, it should just be a matter of running a loop for different values of an index.  Geupdate does have tracking but I think all it does is notify you of a price change when the Grand Exchange updates for the day.  Just in case you might find it helpful, the link is here.

http://services.runescape.com/m=rswiki/en/Grand_Exchange_APIs

https://[LikelyScam]/l=0/a=0/p=wwGlrZHF5gKN6D3mDdihco3oPeYN2KFybL9hUUFqOvk/m=itemdb_rs/api/graph/117.json?v=2

An example for Strength Potion (2).

 

Edit: GG censor.

 

Let me try that again...

 

https://[LikelyScam]/l=0/a=0/p=wwGlrZHF5gKN6D3mDdihco3oPeYN2KFybL9hUUFqOvk/m=itemdb_rs/api/graph/117.json?v=2

https://secure (dot) runescape (dot) com/l=0/a=0/p=wwGlrZHF5gKN6D3mDdihco3oPeYN2KFybL9hUUFqOvk/m=itemdb_rs/api/graph/117.json?v=2

https://[LikelyScam]/l=0/a=0/p=wwGlrZHF5gKN6D3mDdihco3oPeYN2KFybL9hUUFqOvk/m=itemdb_rs/api/catalogue/detail.json?item=117

https://secure (dot) runescape (dot) com/l=0/a=0/p=wwGlrZHF5gKN6D3mDdihco3oPeYN2KFybL9hUUFqOvk/m=itemdb_rs/api/catalogue/detail.json?item=117

This is, of course, if you wanted a lot of price information on a given item - not thousands. :P.

 

But, I believe Tip.It will update prices the minute RuneScape does, given that we detect the last update with each page load. Why not use one of our feeds? :P.

 

Or you can use:

https://[LikelyScam]/l=0/a=0/p=wwGlrZHF5gKN6D3mDdihco3oPeYN2KFybL9hUUFqOvk/m=itemdb_rs/api/catalogue/search.json?simple=1&query=Rune&maxPrice=2000&page=1

https://secure (dot) runescape (dot) com/l=0/a=0/p=wwGlrZHF5gKN6D3mDdihco3oPeYN2KFybL9hUUFqOvk/m=itemdb_rs/api/catalogue/search.json?simple=1&query=Rune&page=1

 

You can add headers such as min/maxPrice and members headers.

Thank you for your replies. I can see that this will require a considerable amount of learning on my part!