Puntif Report post Posted November 1, 2006 Entropy announced: "New file for the bots and spiders: online_players.txt (available shortly after the server restart). This file has the players (not the bots) online, space separated, no html or anything else. All the bots and services using the html version MUST switch to using this file instead." I have switched my process to use this file via http: access - should this file be retrieved by http: or ftp or some other protocol? How often may I access this file? My process currently retrieves this information twice per hour. (I see someone asked this question in the bots section of forums). Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Entropy Report post Posted November 1, 2006 Entropy announced: "New file for the bots and spiders: online_players.txt (available shortly after the server restart). This file has the players (not the bots) online, space separated, no html or anything else. All the bots and services using the html version MUST switch to using this file instead." I have switched my process to use this file via http: access - should this file be retrieved by http: or ftp or some other protocol? How often may I access this file? My process currently retrieves this information twice per hour. (I see someone asked this question in the bots section of forums). Http, I don't think the FTP is even working on the server. You can get it every 5 minutes or so. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nathanstenzel Report post Posted January 14, 2007 Is there an online_bots.txt file too? Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
nathanstenzel Report post Posted January 23, 2007 Ok. Entropy told me that if I need one, I can make a formal request and he might make it for me. Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ttlanhil Report post Posted January 23, 2007 failing that, you can get online_players.htm once an hour or so, and parse out the bots as well as players (I do this) it's probably not quite as efficient as an online_bots.txt file, and depending on the language your bot is in, you may have to develop some code for dealing with HTML (I wrote both a web-get (from SDL_net sockets) and de-html-izer in C++, only a page or so, so it's not that tricky... in perl I could turn the HTML into an array in a line or two), but it's a workable solution right now Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
