Online status

Hi guys, I just can't figure out where to get the online status (online/idle/offline, green/yellow/grey dot thingy) for each player from the API, it doesn't seem to be some kind of calculation regarding your last action timestamp because some people I checked had timestamp of less than a minute but already offline.

What am I missing here?

Going through the different API calls it seems like you can't get it directly. (Tried profile, basic, icons, and some faction calls).

I don't think you can calculate it from the last action either, maybe the green icon does, but the idle icon seems to take into account wether you still have the tab or app open (just my hypothesis).

Maybe a workaround would be storing the last_action timestamp from the previous call and comparing it with the new one, and if it has changed you mark it as online. This would require a high frequency of calls though, and isn't sustainable for a large amount of users, neither is it useful for a real-time application.

Another way would be for you to make your own systems where less than 1 minute ago will be marked as online, less than 5 or 10 will be idle for example.

Maybe the API isn't the right way to get this. I could imagine being able to get this info by a script that loads the profile page and looks for the three icons there, but I'm not familiar with scripting like that so I can't help you any further than the vague idea about that.

Hope this has helped you.

Update: I'm not 100% sure, but this might be the script that determines the online status, and I think it also uses mouse movement and keypresses while the torn window is active.

https://www.torn.com/js/chat/gonline.js?v=1c62ce16

looks like it might be the script to put the online status to the server, but how do we get it though :(

https://api.torn.com/user/(playerid)?selections=profile&key=(yourkey)

data["last_action"]["relative"];

this is the legal way to do it.
Icon1(online/offline/idle) should be under profile => basicicons but it isn't.

should be suggested

ok thanks, i guess there is no other way apart from last action.

It is possible.

Try this, entering your key at the end:

https://api.torn.com/user/?selections=basic&key=

Response:

{	"level": 70,	
   "gender": "Male",	
   "player_id": 2100735,	
   "name": "xedx",	
   "status": 
      {		"description": "Okay",	
      "details": "",	
      "state": "Okay", // <-- Isn't this what you want?
      "color": "green",	
      "until": 0	
    }
}

Edit: Turns out this does NOT display the user's state (online, idle, offline - green, yellow, gray), this returns a status such as Okay, Jailed, Hospitalized, etc.

Hosp, Jail: Red
Travelling: Blue
Okay: Green

Update: the last patch now includes "status" under "last_action" key, thumbs up!

Implemented in patch #130