biscuitius / rusted

A semi-automatic webscraper/api caller to create an updated database of Rust player stats

R.U.S.T.E.D

Rust User Statistics Tracker & Evaluation Database

Track player statistics on Rust by utilising web auth, webscraping and Steam APIs

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Introduction

A warm hello to you, friend. This is my first ever GitHub project - my first project ever uploaded to the internet, in fact. I'm using this project as a means to explore the programming world and learn new concepts - so constructive criticism is much appreciated :)

The app is built in Python, using a mix of web scraping, steam web authentication and API requests for retrieving all the information from the web. All information gathered is publicly accessible and cannot be used to determine a person's real-life identity without their consent.

Feature List

So, enough about all that - what can the app actually do? Well, the app works by trawling through your Recent Players & Current Players list, reported by Steam based on whatever servers you have recently or are currently connected to. There's quite a lot of useful information that we can gather about a player - as long as they haven't opted out of sharing this information via their Steam profile.

Here's the basic stats we gather for user identification:

• Username
• SteamID
• Profile URL
• Avatar

Trackable Stats

Now, looking up a player's Rust stats has always been available via API calls made by discord bots and such, but what really makes RUSTED special is that we can track all these stats, filter them within a timeframe, put them in a leaderboard, and update them regularly. This opens up entire gameplay strategies that were previously impossible or based on guesswork.

Resource Stats	Base/Roleplay Stats	PvP Stats
Metal Ore Harvested	Builds Placed	Players Killed
Stone Harvested	Builds Upgraded	Headshots Hit
Wood Harvested	Time Spent Cold	Bullets Fired
Scrap Acquired	Time Spent Hot	Bullets Hit
Cloth Harvested	Time Spent on Roads	Deaths
Lowgrade Acquired	Distance on Horses	Accuracy
Leather Harvested	Blueprints Learnt	K/D Ratio
Barrels Broken	Food Eaten	Rockets Fired
Animals Killed	Water Drunk	Grenades Thrown
Scientists Killed	Times Waved	Shotguns Fired
Cargo Bridge Visits	Time Spent Speaking (s)	Wounded
Helipad Landings	Instrument Notes Played	Been Picked Up
	Deaths by AI	Picked up Other
	Deaths by Animals	Suicides
		Arrows Shot
		Arrows Hit

What can I do with it?

Well, allow me to invent a completely hypothetical and self-gratifying story in which we manage to find an ideal raid target with the precise loot we want, and even identify where he lives - just by using RUSTED.

Imagine this scenario: You're looking for a fun online raid target, you've got the explosives, but your team is demotivated and desperately in need of a big win. What's worse, your huge metal base hasn't got any upkeep left and nobody wants to farm for it. So, you open up RUSTED and check out the leaderboard. Sort by Metal Ore Harvested and filter to players with the lowest K/D ratio. A perfect candidate - let's call him Sal. Now, farmer Sal's stats sure do smell like free loot, but where does he live? You haven't seen him all wipe. So, you take a look at Sal's personal stats, and see that his Time Spent Hot is notably high, as are his Food Eaten and Water Drunk stats. His Cloth Harvested stat is unusually low this wipe, though. So, where on the map is very hot, with a lot of food and water, but no cloth? You take a look at the map, and behold - a hot desert where no cloth grows, but within, a river where food and water is plentiful. This must be where Sal lives.

The obvious ending to that story is that Sal lived exactly right there, and he was indeed the easiest online raid of your life, with endless metal overflowing from his boxes. Your wipe was saved, and your entire team awarded you with a special mug enscribed with "#1 Teammate" - which was very nice of them.

As for Sal, he lost everything - making him this wipe's biggest loser.