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In Topic: Does your mom know you're on here? Does your mom know you're a faggot?
21 March 2010 - 06:11 AM
Seriously lol'd at this one
In Topic: Does your mom know you're on here? Does your mom know you're a faggot?
13 March 2010 - 08:22 PM
Sorry to disappoint lol, but a lot of the people on chatroulette are just trolls streaming gifs/videos, and that 7 year old is one of the most common. Here's the original if you want to pretend to be him yourself:
In Topic: What do you hate the most about Neopets?
08 March 2010 - 01:12 PM
I stopped using the site in around 2004/5, and I come back to it now and it's not changed at all. Still exactly the same confusing maze of links and huge wait for pages to load (with no ajax to reduce the number of loads needed) 
In Topic: Hello! Need some advice
08 March 2010 - 12:23 PM
Ok cool, thanks for the info. I'd used HttpWebRequest for single requests before - but didn't realise it was powerful enough to fully mimic a browser. Had a go with it now and made a "FauxFox" class that supports GET and POST with cookies and everything 
Do you mean essentially using a bot on the db? If that's allowed then I should be able to start working on something!If you need to access the DB you can - just connect to neocodex and make your requests via HTTP
Well, for the time it's around it would be better than nothing, right? I'd also probably be fine with releasing the code in case anyone wanted to base something off it.If you're not going to be interested in a few months then I doubt there's much point in beginning a project to be fair, it's a long winding process which you'll need to pretty much constantly support - due to freeze rates and other variables.
In Topic: Hello! Need some advice
03 March 2010 - 06:54 AM
Hmm, summer's no good for me really because I'll almost definitely have lost interest by then. I'm using Neopets as a way to get back into web bot coding, so once I'm confident with it I'll probably be moving onto something else.There isn't a public API at the moment but it's planned for this summer I think, and an auction sniper is already being made with database functionality.
So the db's there but there's no way I can use it in a program?
What do you mean by no public API? There's a private one? What about if I write a program and just send you the source code, haha.I probably wouldn't even use any of these programs myself - I'm not really interested in playing NP, I just want a challenge (code something that earns points, and can't be detected as non-human), and while I'm at it might as well make it something that other people can use. See where I'm coming from?
Yeah, good point - but then I'd have to be watching them from a very long way off finishing. I was thinking more of something which catches stuff on the 1st/2nd page and looks for good deals. I think with your method it would have to be watching only a few selected items?That shouldn't be a problem if you make requests regularly enough (But not suspiciously often..). Presuming the Neopets auctions always report the correct time bracket (Eg, "< 30 mins"), you can tell when an auction will end when you catch it switch brackets. For example:
Auction ID 154902135 (Nothing special, just picked it out at random) is in the bracket "30 min - 2 hours" when you checked at 14:48. When you check at 14:49, however, it's in the "< 30 mins" bracket. You can then conclude the auction will end sometime around 15:18.
I've never tested a system like this out, but it'll work in theory. I hope.
EDIT: Ooo, unless it's watching the <30 mins switchover, and keeping track of price changes from different accounts/proxies, and building up a temporary local database of auctions
, and a separate account to do the bidding.
