Achievos unlocked tile & secret achievos

[AlbertKampde]

Hi!
First of all, thanks for this awesome API, it's all im searching for make a little app. I try to get the unlocked tiles achievos but the param always return blank.

It's a problem from the API? a bug? or can't get them?

The same ocurres with the secret achievements, if i unlocked the achievo, why i get the secret achievo and not the complete title & description?

Excuse my english, I'm from spain :)

Thanks for your attention and encourage you to continue this great api
Regards!

[jasonclemons]

This issue has to do with the way Xbox holds their achievements. There is no way to retrieve the unlocked tile without having unlocked it with the API account, or manually adding it to the system.

As for secret achievements, the same applies. The achievement only gets revealed to the account which unlocked it, and cannot be retrieved without doing the same above.

[AlbertKampde]

mmm understand, then the only way to achieve this it is that could be done to XBOX Live login through the API and so it could retrieve the tiles correctly?

[jasonclemons]

That's correct, and that functionality is coming soon along with the proposed OAuth integration.

[djekl]

The best way to think about it is like this. Sign up to xbox.com as a new silver account with 0G and no friends, this is how the scraper accounts are setup that we use. If you are to use your own personal account then you will see the achievements you have unlocked with color images and secret achievements. However if you visit a friends accounts and look at his game that he has 1000G on and you have 0G, he will see all secret and color images whereas you will see only greyscale and none of the secret ones.

I hope that this helps explain the process that the API takes both on Jasons site and my own.

[AlbertKampde]

Thanks, I understand how it works, great work. The possibility would exist after creating the OAuth be storing in a database secret achievements and pictures of users who have one, and so get a good coverage after the return from a 0G user, as long as you have stored before from a user if any.
I speak of course of the API stored on your website, which is much appreciated, unless indicated in the API that requires bbdd ... I do not know.

[djekl]

To do this would take a very large DB. I recently built something simular to exProfileEditor and so far 4 times we have had to upgrade his hosting to take the bandwidth and storage capacity.

This would be something that myself and Jason could look into and maybe offer in the source code but not switched on for the live site. Although if we were to just store the URI location then the DB wouldn't get that large.

Also all of this would effect response times for the end user of the API as it is doing further processing of the data before passing it out to the view.

[jasonclemons]

Closing. Issue will be tracked in Issue #62