/playstation-discord-status

Displays your current activity on your PlayStation®4 or PlayStation®5 as a Discord rich presence.

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playstation-discord-status

Displays your current activity on your PlayStation®4 or PlayStation®5 as a Discord rich presence.

Discord now supports PlayStation account integration officially, so this application is no longer required. https://www.playstation.com/en-us/support/subscriptions/link-psn-status-discord/

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Features

  • Displays current game being played and time elapsed.
  • Displays a generic online presence if not currently playing a game.
  • Removes rich presence if offline.
  • Displays additional status next to the game if available, i.e. Red Dead Redemption 2: Playing Solo: Sauntering in Beechers Hope

Getting started

  1. Sign in to your PlayStation account at https://www.playstation.com/.
  2. After signing in, navigate to https://ca.account.sony.com/api/v1/ssocookie.
  3. Copy the 64-character key (not the whole cookie displayed) and enter that in config.yml as the NPSSO_KEY. 
    NPSSO_KEY: H5MYhQKS3UwcHm6HQmWzYjwCm7bjgarfWPglQ9Zz7XdzTZ0FLFNsPUvxOnRPRlab
    Note: this isn't a valid NPSSO_KEY, this is just an example. Don't share your key with anyone.
  4. Enter your PlayStation Online ID as PLAYSTATION_ONLINE_ID. This is your unique PlayStation username, not your email or your real name. 
    PLAYSTATION_ONLINE_ID: CookieMonster
  5. Run the main.py file. 
    python main.py

Third-party libraries used

  • PSNAWP - PlayStation Network API Wrapper in Python
  • pypresence - Discord IPC and Rich Presence wrapper library in Python

Development notes

  • You can replace the Discord Application Client ID if you want to build your own with your own game images.
    • Navigate here to set up your own, replacing the App ID in the config.

Limitations

  • Has to run locally on the machine where Discord is running.
  • My original goal was to containerise this and run it 24/7 on a remote server. Unfortunately you can only update rich presence for a Discord user account using RPC on the local machine.
  • Most game icons are unsupported, unless they are added to the Discord App Client.
  • PSNAWP doesn't support game session time, it won't know for how long you were playing the game prior to starting the program.
  • Untested on Linux, but there's nothing platform-specific in the code and the third party libraries support Linux.