How frequently, if ever, do user and game ID’s change?
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May 15, 2018, 12:38am
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The ID’s never change, although there are situations where they wont return a results when using the API, such as when a user is banned or a game is removed from the list, and the usernames/game names associated with those ID’s can potentially change.
See also this recent post on Game ID’s
I’m working on a rewrite of my bot that also involves migrating to the new API, and the answer to the question in the title of this thread influences how I cache the game ID/name associations. I don’t care about thumbnails, just the text. Here are the two methods I’ve come up with:
An LRU sort of cache, which removes records only to conserve space. The few “game” titles that my auto-host is currently scripted to ignore (not really games, but things like IRL, social eating, talk shows, and E3 …
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June 14, 2018, 4:30pm
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