VGChartz Playstation Trophy League

[ghettoglamour]

Arcturus said:

 

- 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

Ok, so forcing psnprofiles to update every account is mandatory for you, is that right?

I've been playing around with it and I was able to send an update to psnprofiles for an account. So far so good.

After a couple of updates I got the human verification error, just as you said.

Here comes the interesting part: I went to psnprofiles and did the CAPTCHA verification manually and was able to get the CAPTCHA ID with Live HTTP headers.

With that ID I was able to post 10 updates until I got the human verification error, so that's the limit.

Now, I've done some research and I think I'd be able to integrate the CAPTCHA verification in our app and MAYBE psnprofile will accept my ID. If I succeed you would have to do the verification manually every 10 accounts.

Would this be ok for you? I need to know that, because integrating it might be challenging for me and I wouldn't make the effort otherwise

The other thing I have to find out yet is what is the "cooldown" time of the human verification. If it's acceptable, I could try to make a service that posts 10 updates every (insert cooldown time here, let's say 1 hour) automatically.

You know what, forget this. Let's use http://psntrophyleaders.com instead. Manual updates are unlimited and you can add 5 users per day, which will be more than enough once we've initialized our app.

I'd have to redo all the code for gathering trophy data from the site, which is a rather shitty task, but if you're down with it, I'm down. What do you think?

The only thing that bothers me a little is that some accounts seem to have hidden trophies. To name a few, our buddies FadetoOne and Veritaz seem to have some. Could you maybe explain how this works? Thanks. (I'll do a separate post for this)