Tornex

An Elixir library providing robust API call planning and execution for the Torn City API.

Features

• Efficient API ratelimiting and planning using buckets and prioritized requests
• :telemetry-based logging (with included support for PromEx)
• Support for APIv1 and APIv2
• Support for multiple BEAM nodes
• Support for multi-node clusters
• Support for per-node API ratelimiting

Roadmap

• Per-node global ratelimit
• Combine similar queries to reduce throughput
• Multi-node support
• APIv2 struct coalescing using torngen
• APIv2 mocking server using torngen

Installation

Once available in Hex, the library can be installed by adding tornex to your list of dependencies in mix.exs:

def deps do
  [
    {:tornex, "~> 0.4.0"}
  ]
end

For latest changes, you can also install the library directly from GitHub:

def deps do
  [
    {:tornex, github: "Tornium/tornex"}
  ]
end

Usage

Add the supervisor Tornex.Scheduler.Supervisor and Tornex.NodeRatelimiter to your application supervisor. If you are using the default telemetry handler using Tornex.Telemetry.attach_default_handler, make sure to start the handler before starting the supervisor.

APIv1

Create a Tornex.Query struct containing the request information:

request = %Tornex.Query{
    resource: "user",
    resource_id: 2383326,
    key: api_key,
    selections: ["attacks", "basic"],
    key_owner: 2383326,
    nice: 10
}

The query struct must contain the following values:

• resource: The name of the resource.
• resource_id: The ID of the resource even if the request is against the key owner's user, faction, etc.
• key: The API key to be used.
• key_owner: Any other unique identifier (suggested to use Torn ID) of the API key owner.
• nice: The priority of the request (following the Linux niceness values) where -20 is the highest priority and 19 is the lowest priority.

APIv2

To use the auto-generated client for APIv2, you will need to add the Tornium/torngen_elixir_client library to your dependencies. Without installing this client, you will have to use the APIv1 style requests through Tornex.Query and prepend v2 to the resource (e.g. v2/user).

Create a Tornex.SpecQuery struct containing the request information:

request =
    Tornex.SpecQuery.new()
    |> Tornex.SpecQuery.put_path(Torngen.Client.Path.User.Attacks)
    |> Tornex.SpecQuery.put_path(Torngen.Client.Path.User.Basic)
    |> Tornex.SpecQuery.put_key(api_key)

Once the query struct has been constructed, the request can be enqueued into the key owner's queue with Tornex.Scheduler.Bucket.enqueue/1 to be made depending on the request's priority and the state of the key owner's queue. Alternatively, the request can be performed immediately with Tornex.API.get/1 which performs no ratelimiting. However, both methods are blocking.

response = Tornex.Scheduler.Bucket.enqueue(request)

case response do
    {:error, :timeout} ->
        IO.puts("timeout")

    {:error, _} ->
        IO.puts("unknown")

    %{"name" => name, "attacks" => attacks} ->
        IO.puts("#{name} => #{Enum.count(attacks)} attacks")
end

Documentation

Documentation can be generated with ExDoc and can be found at https://hexdocs.pm/tornex.

License

Copyright 2024-2025 tiksan

This project is licensed under Apache 2.0; see LICENSE.md for more details.