Note

Cohost is shutting down, and will be read-only mode from 1st October 2024. OSRSPlayers has now been archived. Thanks to all who followed on Cohost!

Old School Runescape Player of the Day

This is the source code for my Cohost bot, OSRSPlayers.

The script selects a random OSRS user from the hiscores every day at 11am, Europe/London timezone.

Heavily relies on the very good OSRS-Hiscores Python package, a great library which also briefly infuriated me due to it spelling the RuneScape skill Defence as Defense.

Dependencies are listed in requirements.txt and can be installed by running the following command from within the OSRSPlayers directory:

python -m pip install -r requirements.txt

Note: the above command may request you use a Python venv (virtual environment) or override using --break-system-packages depending on whether your OS is compliant with PEP 668. I highly recommend using a venv instead of the break-system-packages override. See this tutorial from the Python Packaging Authority for help with this.