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Rewriting the Code Golf leaderboard script Code Golf Codidact has an automated leaderboard to show all the answers at a glance. In the absence of an API this currently scrapes the HTML to gather i...
#1: Initial revision
by
trichoplax
·
2025-04-30T22:34:29Z (9 days ago)
## Rewriting the Code Golf leaderboard script Code Golf Codidact has an automated leaderboard to show all the answers at a glance. In the absence of an API this currently scrapes the HTML to gather its information, which means it has to request more than it needs. I'd like the API to provide the following things so that the leaderboard can be rewritten more efficiently: - A list of all of the answer ids for a given question (with pagination because some Code Golf questions have a large number of answers). - The HTML content of each answer. - The user name and user id for each answer. - The tags on the question (to allow sorting the leaderboard in opposite directions for questions that include a tag relevant to sorting order, such as `highest-score` and `lowest-score`).