Using the Overwatch API to fetch user information

apicollect.py

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+import requests
+# API address we can fill the parameters: platform, region and battle tag of a player to get their profile
+url = 'https://ow-api.com/v1/stats/{}/{}/{}/profile'
+
+
+class Overwatch:
+    def __init__(self, platform, region, battle_tag):
+        # Send a request to the api to get information about the user profile
+        self.result = requests.get(url.format(platform, region, battle_tag))
+        # Convert to JSON (basically dictionary formatted info)
+        self.result_json = self.result.json()
+        # List of all filters for player to select
+        self.filters = []
+
+    def get_filers(self):
+        """
+        Get the main filters(stats) available for a user to select to compare with another player.
+        We don't really care about icon, level icon, etc. for this since they aren't stats used for comparision.
+
+        :return: list of possible filters
+        """
+
+        # The primary filters
+        self.filters.extend(['name', 'level', 'prestige', 'rating', 'gamesWon'])
+
+        #
+        for match_filter in ['quickPlayStats', 'competitiveStats']:
+            qp_game_filters = []
+            qp_award_filters = []
+            qp_total_filters = []
+            for qp_filter in self.result_json[match_filter]:
+                if qp_filter == 'games':
+                    for game_filter in self.result_json[match_filter]['games']:
+                        qp_game_filters.extend(([game_filter]))
+                    qp_total_filters.extend([qp_filter, qp_game_filters])
+                elif qp_filter == 'awards':
+
+                    for award_filter in self.result_json[match_filter]['awards']:
+                        qp_award_filters.extend(([award_filter]))
+
+                    qp_total_filters.extend([qp_filter, qp_award_filters])
+            self.filters.extend([[match_filter, qp_total_filters]])
+        return self.filters
+
+    def test_get_player_info(self):
+        """
+        This is just a simple example of how to make API requests for demonstration purposes.
+        :return:
+        """
+        if self.result:
+            name = self.result_json['name']
+            games_won = self.result_json['gamesWon']
+            level = self.result_json['level']
+            rating = self.result_json['rating']
+            return [name, games_won, level, rating]
+        else:
+            return None
+
+
+# Example of a user who uses platform is pc, region us, and battle tag of player of cats-11481 in Overwatch
+ov = Overwatch('pc', 'us', 'cats-11481')
+ov.get_filers()
+