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Tedoron wrote: ↑17 September 2026, 07:44

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑17 September 2026, 03:47

FrankJones wrote: ↑16 September 2026, 21:26 I agree completely, but someone else recently did something similar to what you're doing, and BGA had not given permission, and they ended up opposing the project, so it was scrapped.

Responding to posts serially, so I didn't see this. Tfmbot was an automated player that had its own BGA account. This is nothing of the sort.

Now if it taxes server resources with database queries, that could be objectionable.

Fair - When you click "Analyze", the extension loads 2 pages in your own browser: the game review page and the replay page for that finished game.

So basically what you'd get by clicking "Replay" yourself. So the load on BGA is a couple of page views per game, initiated by the user so I would not define it as a big automated load on the servers.

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑17 September 2026, 17:02

Tedoron wrote: ↑17 September 2026, 07:44

Meeplelowda wrote: ↑17 September 2026, 03:47
Responding to posts serially, so I didn't see this. Tfmbot was an automated player that had its own BGA account. This is nothing of the sort.

Now if it taxes server resources with database queries, that could be objectionable.

Fair - When you click "Analyze", the extension loads 2 pages in your own browser: the game review page and the replay page for that finished game.

So basically what you'd get by clicking "Replay" yourself. So the load on BGA is a couple of page views per game, initiated by the user so I would not define it as a big automated load on the servers.

Is there a way to extract the same information directly from the JSON file that is already received at the end of the game? Then you wouldn't be making a separate request to the server. I'm not sure if it holds the entire game history, though.