This is the source code for fgc.mpaulweeks.com (formally hosted at http://fightinggame.community), which has suspended development.
The website provided statistics for Street Fighter V by crawling the Capcom Fighters Network (CFN) api.
See also: fgc-status
This repository is not actively maintained, nor was it built to be an open-source library.
I have provided it here for those who are curious and want to tinker with the CFN api.
In the process of coding this website, I re-invented a couple of wheels (deploy tools, testing, logging) as a learning exercise. If you wish to fork this repo and expand on it, I highly recommend you just keep the main python logic and replace the rest with standard libraries.
I have hastily made some last minute docs on how to get this running as is: Setting up the demo
If you want to start poking around the CFN api, I suggest you start reading these files (more docs to follow):
- script for establishing cookie associated with your server's IP
- how to store your cookie so the code uses it
- communicating with CFN's api
- parsing CFN's objects
- character IDs and other related info
How do I get the cookie?
I used a manual process wherein I authenticated using the game client, while sniffing the traffic for time-sensitive login information, and then used those credentials to repeat the login request on my crawler server, thereby gaining a cookie that would work on that machine (the cookie's appear to track IP, so each server has to sign itself in).
This is how I did it:
- Get the website code set up on a server.
- Launch SFV on a PC, use Fiddler or Wireshark (or equivalent program) to monitor HTTPS traffic, find the call that logs in your game client, copy out the "authcode" argument in the POST request body.
- Run the "register_cookie.sh" script on the server, when it prompts for authcode, paste the value you copied from above. You should get back a response that contains a cookie.
- Add that cookie to the "local/envar.json" of the server, eg:
"FGC_SCRAPER_COOKIE": "binf=289479238447;" - Use the server to periodically crawl the api and store the data for later reading in a database.
If you ever want to make dynamic API requests from any device without setup (ie like a mobile app), you would need to first reverse-engineer how the SFV game client generates those "authcode" values. As mentioned above, the login cookies are IP-specific so you can't just login once and then pass it around.
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