TETR.IO’s started its new season yesterday. A couple of days ago, I planned to scrape my TETR.IO profile to display the change in my TR over time. The game’s patch notes include the feature that I was missing in the game’s previous season, however:
You can now see your TR change over time on the TETRA CHANNEL site.
Additionally, if I still want to include my TR over time on my website, scraping isn’t necessary at all: the patch notes mention that the game provides an API. Simply using curl and jq gives me all the data I need:
curl https://ch.tetr.io/api/users/geuze/summaries/league | jq '.data | .tr'
I store this data as a site parameter in my hugo.toml file:
TETRIO_TR = 3090.2731291544947
TETRIO_RANK = "c+"
Now, I can use it in a Hugo shortcode:
<span>
{{ printf "%.2f" .Site.Params.TETRIO_TR }} TR
(<img class="tr_rank"
src="https://tetr.io/res/league-ranks/{{ .Site.Params.TETRIO_RANK }}.png" />)
</span>
Which looks like this: 11952.22 TR (
).
To keep this value up-to-date, I add it to a GitHub Actions workflow that uses the game’s API to retrieve my TR and rank, and replaces the current value in the hugo.toml file using sed.