Hey all looking to get involved in my First Open Source Project

[dsfai2020]

I like Python and Call of Duty DMZ. I know they recently put a hold on DMZ updates but I'd like to use the API wrapper to tinker around with something that could provide DMZ players with some extra analytics. Is this the right place?

DMZ runs on the Warzone 2.0 engine (independent of WZ3 and the MW3 game that just came out). The servers are promised to remain live (just not getting new content at the moment). The battle-pass has been unlinked from Warzone entirely. I feel like it's a safe stable place to tinker with.

It's still live and has people actively playing. If this API wrapper worked on WZ2 I'm hoping that I could work here. I will try to test it out sometime soon unless the Holidays overwhelm me lol. Happy Holidays all.

[TodoLodo]

Hey, sorry for our delay in responding to you.

I would like to apologize since our developers have been a bit inactive on this development with the overwhelming amount of work with other projects we have and COD franchise drastically increasing and state changes with their APIs, but we do like to make some improvements to this project once we get the time.

If you were saying you would like to contribute to our project, feel free to make a pull request and we will check your pull request and merge accordingly, if we get more contributors, we may open feature and dev branches to work along with

And very late mention but hope you had a great holiday and wishing a happy new year as well!

[TodoLodo]

@Engineer152

[Engineer152]

This definitely sounds like an interesting idea. Unfortunately there have been some drastic updates to the endpoints from Activision prior to the release of WZ2. All endpoints are now hidden behind stronger authentication walls only accessible through the in game UI. I have been keeping up with the updates to the endpoints, but have not seen any changes recently.

[dsfai2020]

@TodoLodo That is awesome about csgo I didn't know they track stuff like that. Thank you! CS has pioneered so much in what we see today in competitive shooter games that I can't help but see it's signature in so many things so it is nice to know that csgo has some of those features that you mentioned. That's the word I was looking for 'Utility' haha! yes that is for sure what I'd like to highlight. Also I think it's really interesting the who methodology behind the API endpoints are gathered through results in-game gameplay data. Searching for headers to build endpoints sounds like fun! Node.js + Python is nice! Those are the 2 languages that I've focused most of my learning on over the years (always learning still lol). Python being my first and JS (mainly with React) being my second. I can see how crazy it could be to keep up with this project with the ever changing builds and security measures continuously flowing in with weekly/daily updates. Especially if it many of the foundational points like the headers you mentioned were gathered on the older versions of the game. Still you've given me a lot valuable insight as to how this works and comes together. I've seen some sites track player rankings and I'm wondering if the methods they use are legal or if web scraping with something like Beautiful soup is allowed to 'mimic' a log in through the browser and gather leaderboard data. Please forgive me if I am over stepping here but is there a way to access some of the headers from player stats like KDR, # of Top 5's, Live 250 Leaderboards in Ranked, Avg Score etc... The reason I am asking is because there might be a way to construct some extra stats off of those already existing ones. (Those extra stats being the utility of players - it doesn't have to be directly post game but could be something that takes a look at players play in sections. Last 10 games. Games after 9PM. Avg KDR on Wednesday. Score/to WIn ratio...a lot of random stats that highlight utility as well as others.) I did something like this before using pandas (python) and 'feature engineering' by combing some pre-existing columns into new ones to help some of my teammates see stats using a discord bot. But a lot of the input was manual and I was never really able to connect to an API or gather any headers. If something should arise here that needs any help with anything I am ready and willing. I am a bit of a stat rat lol and mix and match all types of categories to find new ones. Its the Trading Card Game - Deck Builder in me that never left haha.

[dsfai2020]

@Engineer152 Hello Engineer152 and Thanks! Ah I see the Authenticator walls have increased and the headers are Only accessible through IN game ui. It seems the bright side is that security has been added to at least help the prevention of cheating. The barrier has been sealed and I can accept that. I'll definitely stay tuned and keep an ear open for anything that I find. Thank you for your insight.

[TodoLodo]

packet sniffing time i suppose :)