Client Side API

sumdoood · September 2022

Hey there,

I'd love to develop software for more "power-user" Squad players out there.

It would be lovely if the game exposed a client side API to the localhost, that allowed for software on the PC to poll information for current games the player is in or recently finished end-game stats.

Information that would be really helpful to receive the following from said client side API:

Revives
(End-Game stats) Kills
(End-Game stats) Assists (if you are tracking this)
(End-Game stats) Vehicle Kills
(End-Game stats) Vehicle Assists
Role(s) played during game
Time spent in said role (+kit) so far
Time spent in a role(+kit) during a game
(End-Game stats) Kills made based on role
(End-Game stats) Revives made based on a role
Team-Mates healed (fully)
Health Points healed
Weapon used to kill
Time spent in each team
It would be helpful if the team is always attached to all the contemporary data, so we know which team a certain action was performed on
Damage dealt (end of the game)

Thats all so far.

This would allow third party devs to develop tools for players that are interested in becoming better at certain roles and compare themselves to other players (either anonymized or if agreed by GDPR standards, directly to other players).

Bigger platforms (especially Riot Games) have been doing this for a while, allowing third party devs to develop tools for the games and the Devs at Riot to control how specific this data is, through the client side API.