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I am forwarding this suggestion from one of our immortals (since his posting rights have not been activated yet):
Ok, this boils down to 2 options, polling or notification.
Polling includes screen scraping, but for the kind of service some of the folks on here are talking about, it would need some kind of 'service' to be available that could be called remotely, something along the lines of a web service, for example. Now I guess web services is a bit beyond the means of most of the muds on here, so that is not a viable option.
Looking at notification, I had a glance over at the autorank site, and it seems that amongst the supported features are email support and templated emails, so perhaps a solution here is to allow a facility whereby each mud can register that they are interested in receiveing email notification of information regarding their status on the toplist. TMS can send this email out to everyone interested, and then the mud is responsible for moving this email to a place that can be read by their website.
I wouldn't recommend you do it on every vote change, you leave yourself open to DoS attack, but you could schedule it every 10-15 minutes or whatever works best. The key here is if the admins at TMS can get the data from their DB into the email, if they can, this will work a treat!
~Daffy
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