towerfall-stats

TowerFall Stats

A library for retrieving TowerFall session stats and saving them to disk and/or a database.

If you want to post stats to Slack, there's a package for that.

Configuration

Towerfall-stats needs to know the location of your tf_saveData file. It assumes a default location, but if you need to change it you can run tf-stats-config for a global install or npm run configure for a local install. This will save the config to a file in your home directory called towerfall-stats-config.json.

If you wish to save match stats to a database, you must run tf-stats-db-config for a global install or npm run db-configure for a local install. Supported databases are MySQL, MariaDB, PostgreSQL, and SQLite.

Use

Library

Towerfall-stats works by watching for changes to the tf_saveData file. The watchForUpdates method will start watching for changes. It accepts a callback which will be called after every completed match. The callback accepts one argument, which contains the stats for the just-completed match.

var fileHandler = require('towerfall-stats').fileHandler;
 
fileHandler.watchForUpdates(function (matchStats) {
    // Do something with matchStats
});

The watchForUpdatesAndSaveToFile method does just that, saving accumulated stats to the liveStats file in your tf_saveData directory. In addition to saving the stats of each individual match, it will also keep a tally of total kills, deaths, and rounds, as well as kill/death and win/match ratios. To get the contents of this file, as well as a tally of winning streaks, use the getCompiledLiveStats method.

As a convenience, there is also a method that will return rankings for each category. Just pass in the stats returned by getCompiledLiveStats,

var statParser = require('towerfall-stats').parser;
var fileHandler = require('towerfall-stats').fileHandler;
 
var stats = fileHandler.getCompiledLiveStats();
var rankings = statParser.getRankings(stats);

This will return an object that looks like this:

{
    wins   : [['blue'], ['cyan', 'white'], ['red']],
    kills  : ...
    deaths : ...
    kdr    : ...
    ...
}

In the example above, blue took first place, cyan and white were tied for second, and red came in last.

Watch script

If creating a stats file or writing stats to a database is all you need to do, you can use the watch command (tf-stats-watch globally or npm run watch locally). The command accepts three options (note if running via npm run you must have -- between the command and the options).

• -f or --save-to-file - Save match data and accumulated summary data to a file
• -d or --save-to-db - Save match data to the database
• -a or --append - If using the -f option, append to the existing file instead of overwriting it