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">
     Call of Duty Black Ops - In Combat Training on Summit
</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

Answer 1

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.

Answer 2

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

Answer 3

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.

Answer 4

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]);