turbio
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9 years ago steam's api seems incredible slow, it at least really slow compared to the rest of the website. I ran a few tests and each request takes at least 2-3 seconds regardless of whether one user or multiple users are being requested. It seems to all be on valve's end, and we're mostly just waiting for valve to respond to the http request. best solution i can think of:
- use as few requests as possible
- make all our api requests async (not sure how to do this in php yet) so that the server will continue to run instead of waiting for a reply before continuing. This will also allow it to make multiple api requests at the same time. The only problem is that, eventually, it will have to receive all the responses before it can finish.
- for some of the much longer requests, we could make a separate php file which is requested by javascript and can thus be loaded after all the mandatory content is loaded (I did something similar with the links project). This does require that the client use javascript and has no fallback.
i'm just going to ignore it for now though idk if you have any better ideas
i created the file /api/steam.php which is currently just an empty place holder. It should contain all the functions necessary to use the steam api. I'm not entirely sure how to use the steam api so you might want to do this.