List of Cards in XML

[Ballotonia]

Greetings,

A list of cards is now available, in XML format. It contains all information shown on the cards, including badges and trophies.

Download it right here:
S1: https://www.nationstates.net/pages/cardlist_S1.xml.gz
S2: https://www.nationstates.net/pages/cardlist_S2.xml.gz

Ballotonia

[9003]

I'm glad to see the official list out. No more clunky api work and it has the badges!

[Inven]

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[The Northern Light]

This is great, thanks for making this resource available!

[N7eternia]

Thanks!

[SherpDaWerp]

Might it be worthy pointing out this is a .gzip file, that requires a proper file decompression thing to open? I know it's painfully obvious, but I somehow managed to still miss the fact it was compressed until Notepad++ opened gibberish. Granted, most everyone who will use this should know how to decompress it (including me), but it was still a bit of a surprise.

Otherwise, thanks heaps, this is quite helpful!

EDIT: There's also a bunch of characters that are outside the normal ASCII range, so it goes weird opening it in Firefox.
You can use notepad++ to remove them all (Replace -> " [^\x1F-\x7F]+ " -> Search Mode: Regular Expression)

[Ballotonia]

Greetings!

Now also a file is available containing the cardlist for season 2. See top post.

Note that XML readers which cannot handle special characters will still stumble. There is no convenient way for us to strip those out without fundamentally altering the contents of the file. If you want you could grep out all lines containing user-supplied content, which will get rid of all special characters. This will however leave you without nation description (S1 only), nation slogan, and nation type information.

Ballotonia

[BuccaRuu]

I found a card in that list (season 2) which does not exist. How is that possible? It is card #3317683 which is from Thiccumsland and has/had/was supposed to have the default flag - hence my interest in it.

[9003]

I found a card in that list (season 2) which does not exist. How is that possible? It is card #3317683 which is from Thiccumsland and has/had/was supposed to have the default flag - hence my interest in it.

Early on during the inscription period if a nation was DEATed the card was nuked as no copies where printed yet.
A check check to the boneyard confirms that the nation in question was in fact DEATed. This list was made at the snapshot and no updated after the fact.

[BuccaRuu]

Okay, so I assume the "snapshot" was taken after the flags were "frozen"? In any case, this https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/card=3083854/season=2 card has "Default.png" as flag in the list, but it obviously does not as printed card. This makes the use of the list somehow difficult.

<CARD>
<ID>3083854</ID>
<NAME>Tattooed Belle</NAME>
<TYPE>Free Land</TYPE>
<MOTTO>If it's not Baroque, don't fix it.</MOTTO>
<CATEGORY>Civil Rights Lovefest</CATEGORY>
<REGION>Osiris</REGION>
<FLAG>Default.png</FLAG>
<CARDCATEGORY>common</CARDCATEGORY>
<DESCRIPTION> 1.54b Population 61.6t Industry</DESCRIPTION>
<BADGES></BADGES>
<TROPHIES>
<TROPHY type="LIBERAL-10">14607</TROPHY>
</TROPHIES>
</CARD>

[Recuecn]

Okay, so I assume the "snapshot" was taken after the flags were "frozen"? In any case, this https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/card=3083854/season=2 card has "Default.png" as flag in the list, but it obviously does not as printed card. This makes the use of the list somehow difficult.

<CARD>
<ID>3083854</ID>
<NAME>Tattooed Belle</NAME>
<TYPE>Free Land</TYPE>
<MOTTO>If it's not Baroque, don't fix it.</MOTTO>
<CATEGORY>Civil Rights Lovefest</CATEGORY>
<REGION>Osiris</REGION>
<FLAG>Default.png</FLAG>
<CARDCATEGORY>common</CARDCATEGORY>
<DESCRIPTION> 1.54b Population 61.6t Industry</DESCRIPTION>
<BADGES></BADGES>
<TROPHIES>
<TROPHY type="LIBERAL-10">14607</TROPHY>
</TROPHIES>
</CARD>

If you mean the XML snapshot, then yes, it was after the flags were frozen. (For the card snapshot itself, of course, there was a period that allowed people to change their flags, among other things.) As a gif collector, I struggle with the xml not always being right too: there's a decent number of animated flags that due to changes in how NS handles flag uploads, aren't labeled as gifs. Some people have joked about renaming their flag files on purpose just to screw with card collectors, and my guess is something like that happened in your case (although probably not intentionally).

[BuccaRuu]

Those are different things, I believe. Also PNG images can be animated, and JPG as well. No clue if that is filtered during the upload so only "pure" GIFs end up as animated flags.

The tag <FLAG>Default.png</FLAG> cannot come from user-uploaded flags, since they always have the

<FLAG>uploads/@@NAME@@__(some number).(jpg,png,gif)</FLAG>

form. So that other example was altered by someone after the snapshot was taken for the XML.

Another flaw I found: https://www.nationstates.net/page=deck/ ... 4/season=2 is a default.jpg flag but the XML snapshot had it as some user upload. Does that happen if the upload conflicted with some rules for flags, so it was replaced by the default flag after the XML list was constructed?
If so, there might be a lot more default (jpg or png) flags out there I'll never know of unless someone sends me the card offer.

[War Dogs IV]

Hi,
do we get this service for S3 as well? It would be much appreciated!
Cheers

[Pribaltic Union]

Hi,
do we get this service for S3 as well? It would be much appreciated!
Cheers

Hi there,

you can change the number in the address:

https://www.nationstates.net/pages/cardlist_S3.xml.gz

Greetings!

Note that XML readers which cannot handle special characters will still stumble. There is no convenient way for us to strip those out without fundamentally altering the contents of the file. If you want you could grep out all lines containing user-supplied content, which will get rid of all special characters. This will however leave you without nation description (S1 only), nation slogan, and nation type information.

yep, I, however, tried to import these xml into Excel, but there were something like invalid characters. I'm an xml ignorant person, so I had to look for an editor to replace these invalid characters and do various obscure things, after this the file began to open in Excel.

corrected S3 xml file: https://disk.yandex.ru/d/cGFeTObU7IaCTg
S3 saved to excel format: https://disk.yandex.ru/i/_WK2ZFmO3Py-fg