Torn profile scraping

Is it against the terms of use to create a bot that logs in and go to a users profile and scrape information like name, age, all the things in "Basic Information"

Thanks :D

use API service instead to get those all information without scraping

Where can i find information on the api key and is it possible to get informaiton about at user with only their id?

Creepy, why the hell would you want this?

What's creepy about Basic Information?

As to why... bleh... I'm drawing a blank there too, lol!

You can make a bot that scrapes the current page but the bot itself is not allowed to navigate to another page or login automatically.

Here: https://api.torn.com/

Your API key can be found here: https://www.torn.com/preferences.php

All the other replies fail to point out that you cannot extract "Basic information" with your API key?

EDIT: I actually meant to say "Personal Information" but then again, I must have been sleeping when I read this thread :D

are you high?


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

returns the key owner's

{ "level": 75, "gender": "Male", "player_id": 1826888, "name": "saeed", "status": [ "Okay", "" ] }




 
https://api.torn.com/user/1?selections=basic&key=key
 
returns basic info for user id 1

"level": 16, "gender": "Male", "player_id": 1, "name": "Chedburn", "status": [ "Okay", "" ] }

 
I think it's worth mentioning that the call is literally called basic.. :p

 

 

 
 

Yep, I was completely *insert adjective of your choice*

At what point does 3 lines of javascript become a bot? [:love_chemistry:]

it's not against the rule if the user navigates to the profile page himself. You are not allowed to press or navigate anywhere from a script, but scraping current page is allowed :)

.. and still required for some purposes

If you need to scrape a page you're doing something dodgy ;)

I scrape a few pages to save me the pain of CTRL+F. Nothing dodgy, just ease of use.
 
 

Suuuure [:love_chemistry:]

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Tell me I'm wrong, CTRL + F gets old. xD

Ctrl + F never gets old. It's my cheap way of processing data without having to write a custom bot.

To answer the chicken /egg question. Ctrl + F comes first for us normal users.

Before someone gets mad: i view all JS scripts as bots (follow lines of code and automatically execute a task:  mostly calculation/data management. No automation allowed ect). As long as the script (called bots) follow the Torn Rules, no need to get your panties in a twist)

You can use my Java App. It is what you want, check for basic profile of user on the list  on Interval (five minute or so, your choose).

https://github.com/ttpro1995/Torn_API_mining/tree/master/torn

You can run on your PC or deploy on VPS to run 24/24.

Need java, gradle