VGChartz Playstation Trophy League

[fadetoone]

Arcturus said:
It takes about 2 1/2 hours each week to update the charts and leaderboards. It's a fairly low tech process. I start by logging into the two vgchartz PSN accounts on http://us.playstation.com/. From there I can view the friends list and everyone's trophy count. I go through, one-on-one, and manually record everyone's trophy count. I'm then able to compare it to last week's update, and can see who has earned new platinum trophies. I then log into the two vgchartz PSN accounts on my PS3 to see which new platinum trophies people have earned. I'm not able to check this via http://us.playstation.com/ since there are large gaps in trophy information for some reason.

All of this captured information is stored in a database. I've written some basic code in Excel to read the database and spit out the various leaderboards and charts. From there, it's a cut and paste job onto this site.

I used to have an aswesome script that FadetoOne developed for me that would scrape everyone's trophy count from the playstation website. Unfortunately, Sony kept re-working there sites and the scripts would no longer work.

Yeah, there's gotta be some better way to automate it again.  If Raptr and those kinds of sites can pull info, there must be a way.