This repo contains the Heroes of the Storm data files that are extracted from Heroes Data Parser. The images are stored in the Heroes Images repo.

All files are in json format. The version folders contain data and gamestring folders. The data files have been localized, which means the localized text has been removed and stored in the gamestring json files.

The version folders also contain a .hdp.json file which contains up to two properties. Example:

{
  "hdp": "4.3.1",
  "duplicate": {
    "data": "2.48.1.76437",
    "gamestring": "2.48.1.76437"
  }
}

The hdp property specifies the version of Heroes Data Parser used to extract the data and gamestrings.

The optional duplicate property indicates that this version of data is a duplicate of another version, which is specified in the data and gamestrings property. As such, there are no data and gamestrings folders.

NOTE: This optional property will not appear just because the data is a duplicate of another version, but rather that duplicate version data was not obtainable or was just not extracted.

Heroes Icons is a dotnet core libray that parses the json files and provides objects to easily access the data.

Releases will have have up to three zip files. A _all, _last, and a _new.

The _all will contain all the versions.
The _last will only contain the last version.
The _new will contain only the new or modified file(s) from the last release.

Releases will be published when a new patch is released or when there are updates or fixes applied to existing data or gamestrings. When the latter happens, the published tag will end with an underscore number (_x).

The following command was used (same for Heroes Images):

'Path/To/Game' --extract-data all --extract-images all --localization all --localized-text

Then the following command was used to convert the gamestring files to json:

localized-json 'Path/To/gamestring-directory'