Add DotA2 item GetRarity

[majidarif]

Not as much as an actual issue than a feature request for item schemas.

Here is how to get the item rarity for dota2,

http://api.steampowered.com/IEconItems_570/GetSchema/v0001/?key=XXXX

then

"items_game_url": "http:\/\/media.steampowered.com\/apps\/570\/scripts\/items\/items_game.c702b53c9aa67e73956206bcb9f54cf3be518925.txt",

this fetch the web schema. let say you json-decoded it to $content. the url of the in-game schema is $content->result->items_game_url; that's an url of a txt file which actually a vdf file. and it has info you can't found from web schema, include the rarity of each item.

Sample:

"5100"
        {
            "name"      "Headdress of the Protector"
            "prefab"        "wearable"
            "creation_date"     "2013-07-05"
            "image_inventory"       "econ/items/skywrath_mage/reverent_headdress_ofthe_protector/reverent_headdress_ofthe_protector"
            "item_description"      "#DOTA_Item_Desc_reverent_headdress_ofthe_protector"
            "item_name"     "#DOTA_Item_Headdress_of_the_Protector"
            "item_rarity"       "rare"
            "item_slot"     "head"
            "item_type_name"        "#DOTA_WearableType_Headdress"
            "model_player"      "models/items/skywrath_mage/reverent_headdress_ofthe_protector/reverent_headdress_ofthe_protector.mdl"
            "portraits"

[koraktor]

Really? I can't believe how incomplete and inconsistent Valve's APIs are.

To be honest, I don't think that this will be added any time soon, because it requires a custom parser for Valve's VDF format. Additionally it also adds another request to load that file and like the usual schema it's not that small (currently almost 6 MB).

[majidarif]

Yeah, I agree. I would just temporarily make a class for this and insert it into a db. Just wouldn't be logical to pull this every time we make a request.

[koraktor]

Does the hash on the file name change over time (i.e. when a new schema is released with a game update)? Otherwise you will have the same problem that we currently have with the Web API schema, it's not versioned and the HTTP server doesn't send cache relevant headers.

[koraktor]

Closing this as I don’t see a chance that a VDF parser will make it into Steam Condenser. Sorry.