The API is fully accessible with HTTP.
The requests library is something you WILL encounter when using python. It is used for sending HTTP requests.
py -m pip install requests
The docs: https://requests.readthedocs.io/en/latest/
How you could go about doing this: Look at the cURL template on the loot locker API docs for making a session:
curl -X POST "https://api.lootlocker.io/game/v2/session/guest" \
-H "Content-Type: application/json" \
-d "{\"game_key\": \"your_game_key\", \"game_version\": \"0.10.0.0\"}"
What you can see: The mode is POST to the url “https://api.lootlocker.io/game/v2/session/guest”. The HTTP Headers (-H argument) are made of key-value pairs (like dictionaries). The key is “Content-Type” and the value is “application/json”. This is standard HTTP. Now to the loot locker specific stuff. The -d argument is the data you send. Here, this is {“game_key”: some_game_key, “game_version”: some_version}.
To transfer this to python:
import requests
GAME_KEY = "my_key"
GAME_VERSION = "1.0.0"
url = "https://api.lootlocker.io/game/v2/session/guest"
# This is the -H argument as a dict
headers = {
"Content-Type": "application/json"
}
# This is the -d argument as a dict
data = {
"game_key": GAME_KEY,
"game_version": GAME_VERSION
}
# Since dicts are (basically) in JSON format, you can specify these as the data
# requests.post returns requests.Response, from which you can get the status_code and other information
r = requests.post(url, headers=headers, json=data)
The same thing can be done for getting the leaderboard. The API Docs show you, that the response will look something like this:
{
"success": true,
"session_token": "e6fa44946f077dd9fe67311ab3f188c596df9969",
"player_id": 3,
"public_uid": "TSEYDXD8",
"player_identifier": "ec9b35e6-b184-4f34-b49f-980f86b291e2",
"player_created_at": "2022-05-30T07:56:01+00:00",
"check_grant_notifications": true,
"check_deactivation_notifications": false,
"seen_before": true
}
Now by accessing r.json().get("session_token") for example, we can get the session_token, which we can later use to save the score to the leaderboard.
IN SHORT:
- Look at the cURL template
- Convert -H and -d to dicts
- POST to the URL of the API
- Evaluate the Response
- Repeat
If you need help with anything, hit me up on discord (@fabianbuthere)!
(Sorry for the lengthy answer, I’m used to StackOverflow)