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# Discussion: Why are housing blocks not listed in "connections"

When using the api.glitch.com/simple/locat... API calls, there is no information returned about housing blocks at all. I'm not sure why they wouldn't fall into the same category as any of the other "connections" returned by the API that lists all the other areas you can get to from there.
Am I missing some reasoning behind this?
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api.glitch.com/simple/locat...
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http://www.glitch.com/locations/LCR8F1FLBI12F2H/
Posted 10 months ago by Vicereine Linnæa | Permalink
now, knowing that the house system will completely change... I think that's the reason. all housing blocks that you see in the /locations/ web pages... will disappear.
but, it seems that there will be new house blocks, and some kind of passages between houses. I hope that the API will return that data when the new house system is in beta/production.
I tried sending emails to info_at_tinyspeck.com about this, but didn't get any type of response (I don't want to know any ETA or any info about how it will work, just to know how the API will work, or if it will change....)
HTH
Posted 10 months ago by UXRoot | Permalink
if what you are looking for, is a way to know the actual house streets IDs. the faster way would be to lookup for pages in
www.glitch.com/realty/in-XX...
where XXXXX is the name of the region.
you can find all house blocks there. but that will stop working in some days/weeks/months...
Posted 10 months ago by UXRoot | Permalink
But the API has never shown connections to housing, even way before this new idea for housing existed (at least publicly) .
What I'm trying to do is gather stats for different streets by using the API, but since it's not part of the API to gather housing block streets, I have to write a bunch of special code (no big deal) but also scrape which takes up a lot of unnecessary bandwidth.
Posted 10 months ago by Vicereine Linnæa | Permalink