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Hmmm, anyone out there know someone that's polled Blizzards /serverstatus page over time? The data from there would have only four states (low, medium, high and Max) but it would give data over the entire 24 hour cycle as well as trends over time that aren't dependant on manual tasks.

I don't have the skills to script it myself but I imagine it wouldn't be too hard for someone with those skills using Lynx to batch read the page every half hour or so and get the resulting data stored and displayed in charts or whatever?

Just a thought

Exactly what information would you want stored? I would have no problem making a script that gathers the serverstatus information and stores the necessary data in a MySQL database or similar.

I guess the only sensible information from a straight forward point of view would be if the server is up or down and what level of population it has. Possibly if there is a queue warning or not, but that should be related to the overall population level and might not be interesting.

Yes, that's basically it, the Queued status is basically a fourth and final population level so it's actually interesting to store. Something to keep in mind though is that these are very much relative numbers, medium population does not mean the same during the course of the day or necessarily over time, it should still give decent indicators about which servers are on a definite decline (dying) and which servers to avoid due to queues for players seeking a new server.

Alanthus - as always, another great suggestion =)

As it is, when I gather that data, I just grab it and cache it. I can easily start working on processing that data and using it to display some trends over time.