dotNS 0.5.1

dotNS - NationStates API access in C#

A C# library for NationStates API access. Developed by The Empire of IKTeam (Our Glorious Nation)

We are now on NuGet!

Features

• High level API access to nation and region information, some public and private shards.
• Low level API access for public and private shards
• Issues interaction
• PIN-code authentication
• May act like both a low-level wrapper and high-level OOP library

Usage

Initialization

For public shards only, this should be sufficient:

using dotNS;
<...>
DotNS api = new DotNS();

If you later wish to authenticate, you can use this method call:

// Updates PIN value of the class. Can be used to re-auth.
api.UpdatePin("nation name", "password");

or just use this constructor:

// Initializes NS API wrapper and automatically acquires a PIN for private API
DotNS api = new DotNS("nation name", "password");

You can (and actually should) also define your own UserAgent. You can do it either using a constructor:

DotNS api = new DotNS("nation name", "password", "UserAgent");

or after initialization

api.UserAgent = "UserAgent";

Also, to disable our API ratelimiting feature (enabled by default), use

api.RateLimit = false;

High level API example

Get basic nation information

using dotNS;
using dotNS.Classes;
<...>
// Create an API wrapper
DotNS api = new DotNS();
// Use it to acquire nation information
PublicNationInfo nation = api.GetNationInfo("nation name");
// Access information you need
Console.WriteLine($"Population: {nation.Population}, motto: {nation.Motto}");

Get basic public shard information

using dotNS;
using dotNS.Classes;
<...>
// Create an API wrapper
DotNS api = new DotNS();
// Use it to acquire basic public shard
string shard = api.PublicShard("nation name", Shards.PublicShard.Capital);
// Access information you've requested
Console.WriteLine($"The capital is {shard}");