Investigate way of automatically getting latest operator definitions. about rainbowsixsiege-python-api

[Eloncase]

I've made a server for that purpose, currently hosting it here. Feel free to use it. Haven't really tested it much tho. I guess you could still implement a web scraping as a fallback option.

[billy-yoyo]

Added to last commit (1728a8f), will be in the next version. Thanks again @Eloncase.

[Eloncase]

Hi!
The only way I've found is to parse HTML and two JS files like this. Not sure if this is a good idea but it works

Basically what the function does is:

• downloads html from https://game-rainbow6.ubi.com/
• parses it for two js files (assets/scripts/main.<hash>.js and assets/scripts/vendor.<hash>.js)
• downloads those two
• parses the main js file for assets/data/operators.<hash>.json, assets/data/weapons.<hash>.json and assets/data/seasons.<hash>.json
• parses the vendor js file for assets/locales/locale.<lang_tag>.<hash>.json

[billy-yoyo]

Yeah I think that's the only realistic way of doing it - problem is we'd need people to do this web scraping every time people start the library, unless we implement some permanent cashing which I'm hesitant to do.

I think unless I can find a solution which only requires a single request, and a small amount computation, I'm going to keep it how it is right now.

A possible alternative is I host a file somewhere which has the hashes, the library downloads that file, and I can update it automatically using this kind of method.

[billy-yoyo]

Wow, thanks a bunch! I'll implement it on the API asap (over this weekend). Yeah, I'll fall back on either web scraping or a hard coded hash, might do both and let the user decide which one to use.