Get a users Xbox Achievements list?

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Eran Kampf picture Eran Kampf · Sep 12, 2010 · Viewed 8.4k times · Source

Is there a way to get a user's achievements list from Xbox without dealing with screen scraping etc.? How do sites like http://www.trueachievements.com do it? (they're definitely not screen scraping as they do not have my Live ID credentials...)

I know there's the Xbox LIVE Community Developer Program (XCDP) that provides some API but they do not provide achievements information as far as I can tell (links below)

http://duncanmackenzie.net/Blog/put-up-a-rest-api-for-xbox-gamertag-data

http://file-pasta.com/file/XML_Feeds.pdf

Answer

djekl picture djekl · Mar 3, 2012

If you want this information you can check out my new site https://xboxapi.com.

Again if your profile is public then you can see friends, games and achievements. This has taken me over a year (on and off) to code and is now in public beta. To date it has served nearly 2,000 requests and growing. I am still working on optimising this script and it should only get better in time.

I currently have an API request limit setup for 120 requests per hour per IP.

Lets hope there are no major updates to xbox.com any time soon.

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