/vrc-bae-watch

Meme project to track VRC friend activity

Primary LanguagePythonApache License 2.0Apache-2.0

vrc-bae-watch

Meme project to track VRC friend activity. Effectively provides no real functionality over just using the website.

  • Only tracks if they're online
  • Doesn't track status change or world changes

Screen shot of discord images display and online user, website active user, and offline user

Disclaimer

This program violates VRC TOS, and probably shouldn't be used with any account you value. If you're going to run it, it's recommended to create a new throw away account, though there is no guarantee it'll protect your primary account.
A separate account will also address privacy issues by effectively making it an opt in system.

Running the app

In order to call the API and query for freinds we needs to authenticate our requests, using the same auth methods used by the website, this means extracting auth_token and api_key values, which are required by the script

Retrieving the auth requirements

  1. Open developer tools in your browser, and log into the VRC website
  2. Search for the call to /api/1/auth
  3. In the response body the token value will be your auth_token
  4. In the response cookies search for the apiKey cookie this will be your api_key

Running the script directly

The script makes use of the argparse module so includes a --help flag to provide detailed argument definitions.

Run the script continuously checking every minute for changes and posting updates to discord

python3 vrc-watch.py -a "<api_key>" -A "<auth_token>" -D "<discord webhoook url>" -w

To gather a onetime list online users

python3 vrc-watch.py -a "<api_key>" -A "<auth_token>"