Show remaining wagering requirement on stream

[Slotplayer]

I have been thinking about programming an app that shows the remaining wagering requirement on screen via OBS on a live basis. This saves the streamer having to interrupt the play to check remaining wagering because it will always be shown on screen.

It will require me contacting casinos that are regularly featured by streamers to get an API interface to get that information from the player's account. I am not even sure at this point in time if those casinos will be interested in this.

Will streamers be interested in this? No point contacting casinos and developing this when it is not going to be used at all.

[Nick]

Ofcourse i would be interested in this!!

[NudgeShuffle]

I'd be amazed if a single casino would expose this through an API but no harm in asking.

 

I suspect some crude scraping method would be required instead which wouldn't be too hard.

Good luck.

[Slotplayer]

On 21/10/2016 at 0:37 PM, NudgeShuffle said:

I'd be amazed if a single casino would expose this through an API but no harm in asking.

 

I suspect some crude scraping method would be required instead which wouldn't be too hard.

Good luck.

Harder than you think. Would be straight forward in the old days when pages were simple html but with most now using a lot of scripting it isn't easy.

[Skylined87]

I do not see a way this could be automated unless Casinos expose the API for that - which I'm sure they won't. For example at Casumo you have to hover over the withdrawal page to see how much wagering you have left. Nearly impossible to capture that  While it's a nice idea I doubt it could be realised.

[Slotplayer]

I have been in contact with one casino that were not dismissive of the idea. They had some concerns about security. I have a workaround for this and will be putting this to the casino in question next week sometime.

Basically, rather than the player submitting log in credentials to the casino (which is the security risk), the casino supplies the player with an authentication code that is used to get the remaining wagering balance from their database. This code is only known by the casino and player. All that the player does is submit the code to the casino via for example www.casino.com/getbalance.php?code=12345 and in return the browser returns remaining wagering for the account associated with the code. The app calls this URL every 10 seconds and updates OBS with the balance.

[NudgeShuffle]

The example you give of casumo is most definitely not nearly impossible.  As a general rule of thumb if you want to automate the capture of a text string that's displayed in a browser then it's never really that difficult to accomplish.  But as this is a gambling forum and not stackoverflow I'll leave it at that :-)

 

[Slotplayer]

Not getting anywhere with casinos so on the shelf the idea goes.