Remote checking of the number of users

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Remote checking of the number of users

by vktRus » Fri May 03, 2013 18:21

Remote checking of the number of users on my server.
How?
 

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by PilzAdam » Fri May 03, 2013 18:48

The server sends it in json format to the announce server.
 

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by sfan5 » Fri May 03, 2013 19:09

If you just have the server address and the server is not on the public server list its very tricky to check number of players.
There was a discussion about a binary server querying format last year on #minetest-dev
If the server is in the public server list you just have to fetch http://servers.minetest.net/list parse the JSON and find the server
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