StinkingBadges - Track your progress towards long-term badges

Question

Introduction

I was curious how far away I was from Generalist, and there are some data explorer queries that can show you your progress, but I thought it should be possible to make this work with the API. A bit of work and a few feature requests later...

Features

• Track the number of days you have towards Epic and Legendary
• Track your tag progress towards Generalist
• Track questions and answers that are close to the Nice/Good/Great Question/Answer badges

Usage

Click this link. The app uses access tokens to read your user ID, so you'll have to click through an authorization screen.

Notes

For the Epic/Legendary badges, I'm scraping the user reputation graph page. I hope that this doesn't violate any rules, and if it does I will disable it. I'm basing the progress towards that badge from the data on this page, so if that data's not accurate with respect to the calculation, your numbers will probably be off somewhat.

Top tags is currently limit 50, so it's likely if you have many top tags that aren't in the site's top tags, the Generalist progress will be skewed. Thanks to Kevin for relaxing the "max 30" on this endpoint.

I'd love to track more statistics, but this is about all the ones I could work out a route through the API for without hammering it. The individual calls to the API are staggered so that they don't all hit at once, so there will be a slight delay when you load the page while all the data is fetched.

Source

Available in this GitHub repo, although most of this is already available in your browser. This is released under the BSD 2-clause license. I'd appreciate attribution if you reuse significant portions of the code.

Answer 1

I updated several aspects of the app in response to user feedback:

• Error handling is somewhat better (it will now tell you if your token is invalid, instead of a generic "error" alert)
• Queued API calls are aborted now, which should speed up site changing, among other things.
• There's now an option to deauthorize the app, should you decide to revoke its access to your account information.
• Generalist now queries to see if the badge is actually possible on the site you're asking about (as it requires 40 tags above 200 questions)
• Some general style improvements, to make it look less like the 2-day old weekend project it is ;)

Answer 2

Here's what I see after the page briefly populates:

Answer 3

Could you add progress towards the Enlightened and Guru badges for answers too?

These would list accepted answers that have scores close to 10 and 40 respectively (with the Enlightened candidates limited to first answers only), as well as list not-yet-accepted answers where the score (and "first answer") criteria have been met and would qualify for just badges if only the answer were accepted. These should probably be limited to questions where there isn't yet an accepted answer at all.

Answer 4

feature-request
Please add progress towards tag badges, like c#.

Answer 5

Running a query on Programmers after running one on Stack Overflow carries over a tag score from SO. I have no points on Programmers for C#

Reauthenticating and running the Programmers query a second time seems to correct this.

Answer 6

Would it be possible to add progress indicators for the editing badges, these used to be shown on the site but one of the updates at some point in the last few months seem to have removed them. The badges I am referring to are;

• Archaeologist
• Copy Editor
• Strunk & White

If possible could we get these as well?

• Civic Duty
• Electorate

Answer 7

On Code Review we have people getting the Generalist Badge, but the app says we only have 38 tags that qualify, could you do some updating of that for us please?

Answer 8

Could the Sportsmanship badge be tracked with this application? I know data.SE can't, but an authorized app like this might be able to access more data? (As you can see, I don't really know anything about stack app development. I very much like your app, though, thanks for that!)

Answer 9

The page does not seem to work in Opera 12.10. I get the following error in the error console:

[2012-11-28 11.48.45] JavaScript - http://agent86ix.github.com/stackapps/badge/
Event thread: message
Uncaught exception: TypeError: Cannot convert 'bodyinject' to object
Error thrown at line 1757, column 2 in injectcode():
    bodyinject.appendChild(message);
called from line 1647, column 0 in contentfirstrun(e):
    injectcode();
called from line 148, column 4 in <anonymous function: opera.extension.onmessage>(e):
    contentfirstrun(e);

The result is that the page seems to be loading forever. That may be another bug by the way: There are animations that indicates that something is working when it is in fact dead.