Retrieving Data from BattleNet

Question

I have seen sites like sc2ranks.com, and I’m quite interested in how they get information that I could only get from the game. I mean, how can I access, for example, the stairs of StarCraft II EU? Is this just the url we need to get / load, or does it require any kind of client binding via injection?

Answer 1

Each region has an associated arsenal that you can find at http://battle.net . Global ratings, such as on sc2ranks and other sites, cannot be found on battle.net, as they only show ranking of units.

If you want to extract information, you only need to do this with HTML clips.