| ghettoglamour said:
- how do you get around the CAPTCHA on psnprofiles? I can see this being an issue when updating the trophy stats for 100+ users Hm, my app wouldn't cause an update on psnprofiles for each account. It just opens the psnprofile page of every user, for example http://psnprofiles.com/GhettoGlamour, and collects all the data from there (HTML source code). As far as I know, as long as the user doesn't make his trophies private, psnprofiles updates every account daily. If psnprofile doesn't know a certain user, I think everybody can create a profile of that account (I've tried it out with two guys from our league, sorry for that) You - or me - would have to do add those manually on psnprofiles. - what sort of enchancements would you make to this thread if your application was used? Look at the kinda stats I have. I could add some interesting columns to the leaderboards, like % of completion, % platinumed, % of days with earned trophies, etc. Another thing I'd like would be a "hot games" list where you post which games have been played most per week/month/year/all time, showing how many users, trophies, points, plats,etc. they got in our league. Another interesting stat would be how many trophies, points, plats, etc. the whole league gets weekly/monthly/ etc. globally. I could create any list you'd like. What and how often do you wanna post any of these is up to you, of course. Maybe we could start some global challenges like: "let's get 50 plats till end of month" Maybe you wanna PM me your skype ID so we can talk more comfortably. |
- Pulling data from psnprofiles
I haven't looked into this in months, but at the time there were a few hurdles with pulling trophy data from psnprofiles.
1. If you don't force the site to perform an update (by going through the motion on the main page and entering in the CAPTCHA), then updates are only automatically done once a week. If you go to my profile without forcing an update, you see the following below the trophy milestones section:
This would make it difficult to gather trophy data at a single point in time as automatic profile updates would be staggered throughout the week.
2. If you haven't forced a profile update in a while, eventually the site will stop automatically updating the profile. Here is a screen capture of a friend's profile:
This means that you would have to force profile updates every once in a while.
3. CAPTCHA. How would an automatted tool overcome this without resorting to forcing updates manually.
I looked into automatically gathering data from psnprofiles when I was creating the script I currently use, but stopped because of the above reasons. At the moment, I have the scripts automatically gather trophy data from the friends lists of the VGChartz1 and VGChartz2 PSN accounts via playstation.com
- As for the enchanments to the league
I would love to see all of these enchancements! What always prevents me from going further is the amount of effort needed each week to perform the updates. If more tasks were automated with scripts and such, then I'd have more time to incorporate new tables and stats. My knowledge is pretty limited when it comes to scripting and programming. I taught myself just enough Python to piece together the script I currently use to gather trophy data. The rest of the currently automated tasks (generation of Platinum Leaderboard, Busiest Members, etc) was put together in Excel with VBA scripts, which I briefly learned about 10+ years ago.
