| Chevinator123 said: What is the process of updating the charts? just wondering cause it seems like hard work, do you need to search up every single individual person 0.o ? |
It takes about 2 1/2 hours each week to update the charts and leaderboards. It's a fairly low tech process. I start by logging into the two vgchartz PSN accounts on http://us.playstation.com/. From there I can view the friends list and everyone's trophy count. I go through, one-on-one, and manually record everyone's trophy count. I'm then able to compare it to last week's update, and can see who has earned new platinum trophies. I then log into the two vgchartz PSN accounts on my PS3 to see which new platinum trophies people have earned. I'm not able to check this via http://us.playstation.com/ since there are large gaps in trophy information for some reason.
All of this captured information is stored in a database. I've written some basic code in Excel to read the database and spit out the various leaderboards and charts. From there, it's a cut and paste job onto this site.
I used to have an aswesome script that FadetoOne developed for me that would scrape everyone's trophy count from the playstation website. Unfortunately, Sony kept re-working there sites and the scripts would no longer work.
