scraping Xbox Live member current activity

Question

I'm looking into how to get a Xbox Live member's presence (i.e. Not Online, Online playing _).

The only way is to be signed into Xbox.com, visit the player's page, and scrape some text from a div. http://live.xbox.com:80/en-US/MyXbox/Profile?gamertag=example Seen here

<div id="CurrentActivity">
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</div>

Is there a way to sign into http://xbox.com with a script or otherwise find a player's current status?

EDIT: Here is my project Xbox Messenger / Status

Check if XBOX has an API, you can usually get the data that way! — Patrick C, Feb 11 '11 at 22:36
XBOX does have an API but it's flippin hard to get access to it and the API does not give him the data he's looking for; it doesn't even give you your achievements :\ — Jamie Taniguchi, May 17 '11 at 22:38

score 3 · Accepted Answer · edited Nov 19 '11 at 17:39

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You cab use curl in PHP. You will need to store the cookies and reuse your cookie file with subsequent requests.

Another scripting option is to use mechanize. There isn't a PHP library last I checked, but there is one for Python, perl and Ruby.

edited Nov 19 '11 at 17:39

answered Feb 11 '11 at 21:54

sberry

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This does not work, you must use a method that can utilize JS as MS' login forms requires it. You can steal your RPSAuth cookie from your browser and use that but that's just a dirty session hijack method that'll only keep you logged in for up to 12 hours after which you need a new cookie. – Jamie Taniguchi May 17 '11 at 22:40

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Nov 19 '11 at 13:26

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http://live.xbox.com/en-US/Profile?Gamertag=GAMERTAG

here u can find the players Xbox Live online Status without being logged in to the site. Scrape it with any method you find over the web.

answered Nov 19 '11 at 13:26

Cpt Cosmo

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score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Feb 11 '13 at 14:14

This is code that i just made this will work

$opentag='<div class="presence">';
$closetag='</div>';
$url=file_get_contents('http://live.xbox.com/en-US/Profile?gamertag=major%20nelson')


$presence=explode($opentag, $url);
$presence=explode($closetag, $presence[1]);

echo trim($presence[0]);

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Feb 13 '11 at 14:24

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You can record a robot using IRobotSoft web scraper if you just need an easy solution.

answered Feb 13 '11 at 14:24

seagulf

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scraping Xbox Live member current activity

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