Current State of Name2Key hacks

[Les White]

Does anyone have any information or clues about the current state of name2key hacks? What are people using these days? I need something that works to use for gifting items. Same old story.

No need to point me to the wiki or other sources unless you KNOW it works. I'm a long time scripter and I've been testing a bunch of methods today with poor results.

Any tips or hints from people who use something that works would be very appreciated.

 

[Ruthven Ravenhurst]

Whoops, nevermind, was thinking about it wrong. Feeling blah today and busy with Thanksgiving stuff

Edited November 23, 2017 by Ruthven Willenov

[Innula Zenovka]

I use the w-hat lookup service.    Very old-school, me!   It works, though, and seems to keep itself well-updated.

[Les White]

Looks like old school is the winner!

Active database with 8 million+ names, easy hooks and CSV dumps to allow me to make a back up DB should they fail.

Thank Innula. I hope I can return the favor some day.

[Rolig Loon]

I use w-hat myself, but Innula convinced me a year or two ago that it was smart to use a backup service as well, since no single service manages to capture all UUIDs. Here's what I have been using.  As you'll see, I'm using w-hat as the backup here, and http://vwrsearch.secondlife.com  as the primary source:

key kReq;
key kReq2;
string NAME;
integer gChan;
 
default
{
    state_entry()
    {
        gChan = (integer)llFrand(1000000.0) -492;
        llListen(gChan, "", llGetOwner(), "");
    }
    
    touch_start(integer num)
    {
        llTextBox(llGetOwner(), "\nType the name of an avatar to retrieve the key:", gChan);
    }
    
    listen(integer channel, string name, key id, string message)
    {
        NAME = message;
        state kn2k;
    }
}
 
state kn2k
{
    state_entry() 
    {
        llSetTimerEvent(0.5);
    }
    
    timer() 
    {
        llSetTimerEvent(0);
        kReq = llHTTPRequest("http://www.w3.org/services/html2txt?url=" + 
            llEscapeURL("http://vwrsearch.secondlife.com/client_search.php?q=") + llEscapeURL(NAME), 
            [HTTP_BODY_MAXLENGTH, 16384], "");
    }
 
    http_response(key request_id, integer status, list metadata, string body) 
    {
        key avKey;
        if(request_id == kReq)
        {
            body = llList2String(llParseString2List(body, ["http://world.secondlife.com/resident/"], []), 1);
            body = llList2String(llParseString2List(body, ["\n"], []), 0);
            if (avKey = (key)body)
            {
                llOwnerSay("\n"+NAME + "'s key is: " + body );
                state default;
            }
            else
            {
                llSay(0,"\n Not in N2K. Trying w-hat database ... ");
                kReq2 = llHTTPRequest("http://w-hat.com/name2key"+ "/" + llEscapeURL(NAME), [], "" );
            }
        }
        else if(request_id == kReq2)
        {
            if (avKey = (key)body)
            {
                llOwnerSay("\n"+NAME + "'s key is: " + body );
                state default;
            }
            else
            {
                llOwnerSay("\n"+NAME + "'s key is not in either database.");
                state default;
            }
        }
    }
}

 

Edited November 24, 2017 by Rolig Loon