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Runescape Notifier For Chrome - Initial Release

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Yesterday Jagex announced a RuneScape Game Bar - a toolbar for IE, FF and Safari. Although there's the usual problem that it's a toolbar and toolbars always take up too much space for the functionality they provide, it does provide some interesting data relating to the GE and Activities. It also spawned a number of 'y no Chrome, u fail!!!' posts.

 

Well, toolbars are ick and us Chrome users have no desire to have an icky toolbar ruining our minimal UI. The Jagex devs realised this, so didn't give us the silly 1.7mb of bloat. :glasses:

 

They did, however, provide access to the data through the authorisation system and Chrome extensions have access to it, so I've spent the last day working out how to create Chrome extensions, the result being the...

 

RuneScape Notifier (for Chrome, not at all finished and contains known issues) >.<

 

runescapenotifierscreen.png

The popup window (old pic, now also includes the latest RS news)

 

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Notifications when things update

 

It's a Chrome extension that allows you access to the data that Jagex has provided for the other browsers. To get started, click 'Authorise' and follow the steps to allow your browser access to the data.

 

I've noticed that the data can be very slow to update (half an hour to say I killed Bork, 3 hours and waiting to tell me that Maple Logs have bought), however this is a problem at Jagex's end.

 

The extension fetches GE data every 5 minutes and will add a notification to the icon to say if any offers have completed. It will also fetch GE and activity data when you view the popup, meaning you may get blocked by Jagex for a few minutes if you open it up too regularly (causing things to look odd).

 

This initial version is designed to get the new data across and not a lot more, so there will be problems. If you do encounter anything odd, or think something could do with improving / adding, please leave a comment and I'll do my best to see what can be done about it. I think auto-updating is working, but I may be wrong.

 

Get it now (for Chrome, not at all finished and contains known issues)

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When trying to download the chrome thing, it says,: "Invalid value for 'permissions[1]'

 

Any way to fix that?

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When trying to download the chrome thing, it says,: "Invalid value for 'permissions[1]'

 

Any way to fix that?

Oops, it seems like I added something that's only available in the Beta version... *works to remove, sorry*

 

EDIT: Not what I thought it was. Looking more into it.

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It's been updated and is now working in both the Beta and regular releases of Chrome. :D

 

(seems like I missed the 'dev' part of the documentation URL :box:)

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When trying to download the chrome thing, it says,: "Invalid value for 'permissions[1]'

 

Any way to fix that?

Oops, it seems like I added something that's only available in the Beta version... *works to remove, sorry*

 

EDIT: Not what I thought it was. Looking more into it.

ok it's back to how it should be now. really good job on in!

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sacred poop, Neo. You are my hero. I've wanted a way to check the GX from outside the game for ages <333

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Glad people are liking it! :D

 

For whatever reason, Jagex has stopped providing information about completed GE offers, so the notification to tell you how many are complete isn't working. I've sent in a bug report, so we'll have to hope the full data is put back soon.

*crosses fingers*

 

Where did you find the data?

http://services.runescape.com/m=toolbar/geupdate.ws

http://services.runescape.com/m=toolbar/activities.ws

(<3 Tamper Data)

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I've just had a situation where the extension was showing that I had one completed GE offer despite there being two completed offers in-game. It seems like the system Jagex has in place to generate the data is even more random than I thought! :P

(though it's nice to see that it'll sometimes show completed offers)

 

You're too clever :P

If that was the case, I would have remembered to test it on the regular version of Chrome as well as the Beta one. :cute:

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Update time!

 

It's been updated with a few changes and bugfixes to improve accuracy and remove a few console errors...

 

- Fixed a rounding error with quanities of processed items in the GE

- Added information messages which appear when there's no content in the response from the server in personalised content related requests

- Added a feed for the latest RuneScape News, styling it with an accordion effect

- Created a tabbed interface (Personal, News)

- Improved the styling of the Authorisation table

 

Currently, the news feed loads every time you view the popup, though I'll look into this tomorrow and try to make things quicker.

 

(you can force the update by going to chrome://extensions, enabling 'Developer Mode' and clicking 'Update extensions now', or wait a few hours for it to update automatically)

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Another update! :D

 

This time it's not new stuff, but re-working pretty much everything that I'd already written to make opening the popup much faster (typically 3-5x faster on a slow machine, more of an increase on faster ones), make it harder to accidentally get blocked by Jagex, and re-work some of the core code to make it easier to add other features in. There are also a few bugfixes thrown in for good measure.

 

If you do get blocked, the 'information essays' don't seem to be showing up properly, but I'd say that the speed increases are worth coping this small issue for a little while. ^_^

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Yay, another update! ^_^

 

The 'Reload Popup' button/link should now work, although it may take a couple of clicks to update properly due to the way it's written - I'll try to fix this.

The Activity data will now update and isn't stuck on whatever it was when the extension was enabled / Chrome opened.

The icon now has a handy tooltip with some of the useful numbers in so you don't need to keep opening the popup to see if Jagex's data has bugged or your Activity info has updated. :yay:

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10. Why are some of my completed Grand Exchange offers not showing?
Completed Grand Exchange offers are only displayed on the RuneScape Game Bar while you are not logged into the game. When you next log in (or if you happened to be logged in when the offer completed) any completed offers will be removed from the Game Bar, however, this may take up to ten minutes due to how frequently the Game Bars is updated (see question 8). When an offer is considered to be complete it is deleted from the Game Bar, however, you may see completed offers in the Game Bar until you next log into RuneScape and the Game Bar information updates.
http://www.runescape.com/kbase/guid/game_bar

Is it me, or is that logic terrible? If I'm in-game Slaying some creature in a far-off location nowhere near the GE, I want to be able to see the current status of my offers and don't want to have to remember what I put in and may possibly be completed now. Having to wait until I've finished what I'm doing before being able to see what the 'One or more of [my] Grand Exchange offers have completed' are is plain irritating. >.<

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Today's update adds notifications for when anything updates. There are also some new icons. :D

 

runescapenotifiernotifi.png

 

Fix-wise, the 'information essays' show correctly now, plus the icon tooltip will update at the same time as the data rather than when it feels like doing so.

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