Comments on: Find/Make This For Me: Xbox Friends Widget

By: doombot » Xbox Friends Widget: Conclusion

doombot » Xbox Friends Widget: Conclusion — Thu, 01 May 2008 16:19:34 +0000

[...] back, I implored you, the internet, to make me a Mac Dashboard widget that would quickly and cleanly tell me what my [...]

By: borocouncilman

borocouncilman — Fri, 22 Feb 2008 13:11:02 +0000

Screen scraping isn’t the way to go with XBOX.com. The site changes constantly — breaking applications that screen scrape (ie. MacLive). Microsoft strongly discourages you from providing your passport Live login to other applications and web sites. Truth be told, an application legitimately accessing the data doesn’t need your Live/Passport information.

Our 1337pwn XBOX Live Friends List dashboard widget and iPhone/iPod Touch application utilize data through via our own server infrastructure. You can check them out at http://1337pwn.com.

With regards to your feedback, we wanted to make things easy to read when you quickly flashed it up the dashboard. Hence, the widget is not tiny. We did experiment with hiding offline gamers, but folks preferred being able to know that a friend just got offline or had played a new game.

Of course, we welcome feedback and comments. Don’t hesitate to send an XBOX Live message to borocouncilman.

Thanks!

By: doombot » Xbox Friends Widget, Part II

doombot » Xbox Friends Widget, Part II — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 18:12:01 +0000

[...] might recall that I recently wished aloud for a Mac Dashboard widget that would list the availability and status of my friends on Xbox Live. [...]

By: Dan

Dan — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 04:10:03 +0000

I just used Leopard’s Web Clip feature to make my own widget. Unfortunately, it’s kind of huge (takes up like a quarter of my Dashboard). Alternatively, you could just bookmark xbox.com…

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:12:48 +0000

Hell, it would be easier just to hack the widget you found. Give me the login info anyway though, so I can test it.

By: Jacob

Jacob — Sun, 27 Jan 2008 03:10:14 +0000

Apparently that software screenscrapes xbox.com, and there's no real API available as an alternative, so there's the reason why there isn't anybody doing this yet.

I've been looking for a reason to try out Dashcode, if you send me your xbox.com login info, I'll see if I can whip something up for you over the next few days. I'll trade you your widget for a few more PDFs of journal articles that I can't afford to buy.

Have to keep productive while visiting my Mum this week anyway, and I'm a little burnt out on Kanji study...

By: Jason

Jason — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 23:03:15 +0000

I am still impressed and grateful that you actually found this. It sounds pretty awesome.

This is one of maybe two or three times in my life that I kind of wish I were running Windows. The other that comes to mind is when I wanted to run Jenova Chen's Cloud (for which I installed Boot Camp just so I could play).

By: Bryce

Bryce — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:16:14 +0000

In an effort to redeem myself (and to post three consecutive times):

http://www.pure-mac.com/downloads/xboxlivefriendsdl.html

and

http://99lives.org/2007/02/11/xbox-live-mac-maclive/

The latter appears to do Growl notifications.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:11:18 +0000

Don't mind me. I thought you used a Mac but when I read your post I somehow developed the sense that you were looking for something for Windows.

By: Bryce

Bryce — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 22:06:04 +0000

Does this work?

http://brh.numbera.com/software/xblist/