GB Chrome Extension

Hey all, 
 
I thought I would play around with the Chrome extensions structure and I thought the GB API would be decent to use for a bit of practice.  I'm starting by making the extension pull the reviews, but I noticed that the game element of a review's node content is a call to the api for the game.  Did I miss something here?  Is just the game's name included somewhere in the Review XML? 
 
Ian

It's in there. name is what you want.
<game>
    <api_detail_url>http://api.giantbomb.com/game/20462/</api_detail_url>
    <id>20462</id>
    <name>SingStar</name>
</game>

Thanks Andrew, didn't drill down far enough into game looking at the API return. 

How do you flip the sort?  I need to pull the 5 newest reviews. 

A terrible beta version is accessible from the Chrome extensions.  I have Reviews paging working, just need to work a few bugs out before I post it.  Ideally it will have news, reviews, and maybe video links, along with a text search that will return some abbreviated results for quick viewing and linking.  Any comments/complaints?

Not bad. You should probably add dlc_name to the game title to avoid ambiguity.

Dood, yes!  I need easier GB browsing at all times, and now I can have it at work AND at home! 
 
Thanks for the work, sir.

just installed it. neat extension :) 

Wrapped the new version earlier, and it has review browsing with dlc_names if they exist.  I was trying to clean up the code a bit and it should be looking better .

" Wrapped the new version earlier, and it has review browsing with dlc_names if they exist.  I was trying to clean up the code a bit and it should be looking better . "

Left it on my work machine, so I cant get to it until tomorrow.  I'll post it by Friday morning and let you all know. 

There's no way to query GB for their news feed is there?  Does Feedburner have a decent API, so I don't have to query the feed and return an excessive number of results?  Also the API doesn't support new release browsing?

I'm sorta of working on this project to familiarize myself with jquery, so I'm not going to take the time to build my own database and feeds to sort everything else.  That I I doubt the audience for this will be all that large to even justify it.  I guess I'm trying to make it useful for the user, so they don't have to wait 5-10 seconds for the app to retrieve and parse the results.  I still poking around with the feedburner stuff, but I'm probably just going to move onto searching and come back to the news feed later.

Yeah, some things just aren't worth the bother. Many of the things I want to do with the API are either impossible or require me to retrieve data for every single page. It would be nice if the API devs would actually implement a more powerful interface for the API so that we don't have to do a bunch of client-side sorting and filtering. We shouldn't have to do that.

Added some finishing touches to version 1.1.  You can grab it here:  https://chrome.google.com/extensions/detail/fbmdbnaicbiicjomhbehphodbmbokcpj 
 
Thoughts?

Version 1.2 ready to go at the above URL.  Added search support.  Still trying to figure out the best way to parse news.  Going to start working on topic browsing.

installed it. pretty good. very nice.

Ehhh, after looking at it I guess your not pulling all that much info.  That url you provided is only pulling current info and there's not really any deck to display, so I only really need to pull the title and the link.  Seems simple enough, should have it together in the next hour or so.

" @fearbefore: Lookin' good! Keep up the great work. 
 
In the GiantBomb Android app, I used this feed to parse news: 

http://feeds.feedburner.com/GiantBombNews?format=xml

I found it by doing packet capture on the iPhone app.  Good luck!  "

Arg, there's no deck/tagline for news stories in the feed.  The ones on the site have nice decks for each headline, but the feed only has a description that's is stuffed full of html.

Like these decks? Yeah, it would be nice to include those in the feed.

Nice one, good job 

Version 1.3 now available 
              Features: 
                               - News Feed now working 
                               - Videos now working 
                               - Full search support 
                               - Section browsing, allows you to view the newest entries in each section