dota2.com/watch brings stream sniping to the next level

Much people are hyped by the Valve streaming platform (I liked it too, very nifty), but to be honest I hope that either Valve will quickly increase the security or not so much people will use it.

While stream sniping exist since a while, the fact is that someone stream sniping had to watch the stream at the same time as playing, which can be more of a discomfort than an advantage.

Well good news everyone, It'll get easier ! The new stream platform expose an API which is totally not secured.

The API provide a lot of data, just give it a broadcast id (which you can get by giving another page a steam id). It includes :

• Buildings health
• All graphs
• Some info about the game itself (mode, time, game id,...)
• For streamer enemies : hero, all items, level, respawn time.
• For streamer teammates : same as enemies + : abilities and stats level, all stats (agility, armor, speed, damage,...), actual gold, buyback, ultimate ready (cd + mana), health, mana, all items + stash + shopping list, position.

Some pic

So basically, it like super easy to make an overlay app which will show you directly in-game the position of your enemies, their ulti, what they're planning to buy, if they can buyback at all time and I guess without much delay.