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Posted by Grigorij Schleifer
Grigorij Schleifer
10,365 Points

Too many points ?

Hi folks,

since today I have to much points on my profile....

The sum of all my earned points is 1.928, but now there are 2.134?

Why is this happening?

5 Answers

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points
Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

Its because you earn points for providing forum answers that people have either up voted or have selected as best answer.

Grigorij Schleifer
Grigorij Schleifer
10,365 Points
Grigorij Schleifer
Grigorij Schleifer
10,365 Points

Hi Jacob,

thank you for quick respond. But I have at least 200 points too much that all points earnded in forums, challenges and videos. This is nothing bad but I would like to know why :)

Jacob Mishkin
Jacob Mishkin
23,118 Points

Yeah your right! I guess enjoy those extra points. I have no idea why.

Barry Mulrooney
Barry Mulrooney
13,011 Points
Barry Mulrooney
Barry Mulrooney
13,011 Points

There is a reason for this that is mentioned in a file about interacting with the JSON file for your profile in some video or other. I forget where it is though.

http://teamtreehouse.com/GrigorijSchleifer.json

Grigorij Schleifer
Grigorij Schleifer
10,365 Points

OMG :)

This is a big file):

How did you get this????

Grigorij

Barry Mulrooney
Barry Mulrooney
13,011 Points
Barry Mulrooney
Barry Mulrooney
13,011 Points

It is part of an API Treehouse have. Just type the address and the username with .json at the end.

That is it basically.

If you paste the contents into something like http://jsonprettyprint.com/

You can get a more human readable format (points data is at the end). Otherwise there are extensions for chrome/firefox that do this automatically.

Grigorij Schleifer
Grigorij Schleifer
10,365 Points
Grigorij Schleifer
Grigorij Schleifer
10,365 Points

Thanks Barry!!!

"points": {
    "total": 2136,
    "HTML": 0,
    "CSS": 0,
    "Design": 7,
    "JavaScript": 0,
    "Ruby": 0,
    "PHP": 0,
    "WordPress": 0,
    "iOS": 0,
    "Android": 88,
    "Development Tools": 38,
    "Business": 0,
    "Python": 45,
    "Java": 1422,
    "Digital Literacy": 330,
    "Game Development": 0

The sum is 1930 ....

Magic