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On June 13 2014 11:02 Craton wrote:
I don't know how automatic you could make it; it depends on its API / scraping the pages for online status, and how you can pull the source video.

It's more or less doable to write a program, have an ordered list of streams, and swap from A to B based on whether or not they're online when current one goes offline (or randomly pick, doesn't matter). The harder part is feeding the video source into something consistent (i.e. the same place on the screen).

Think the likes of detecting "X" is online, so pipe the video to a particular instance of VLC using livestreamer, regularly check online status (once a minute to avoid rate limiting? did the vlc instance disappear, meaning checking process list/running programs constantly for a faster response time), then use some logic to determine what to open next.

So short answer: yeah, it's probably doable. How easy or hard to do depends on a number of things. If you want it truly automatic you need to write some code.

I can tell you that using the likes of twitch and livestreamer I could whip something like this up since I know I can easily check online status of twitch and pipe video through e.g. livestreamer (salient point being I can control how it's displayed better than in a browser). With OP.GG, I have no idea what you'd need to do to figure out online status or to pipe the video.

I believe the likes of Snipealot are done largely manually, with a number of people that change the video throughout the day. Frankly that could be made much more automatic too, since I know you can use the Afreeca mobile site to check availability and pipe video (I just know I've seen someone moving windows around from time to time so it's probably manual).

On June 13 2014 11:45 Craton wrote:
Sounds harder. Lot more unknowns for me.

You'd need a to parse through the list of available featured games (get the players in them so you can do a simple lookup on their rating: there is a riot api for this and numerous sites that already use that api, you just need the summoner name/id). This is easy with the json you get from those URLs.

You'd need a way to start the spectating, which I don't know how you pull off. I'm assuming this change alters what shows in your normal spectate area. If that's the only way to trigger spectating, you'd need a way to select the right indicator for your chosen game and then "press" the spectate button.

You'd need a way to exit the game when it's finished and repeat the process.

I don't know how you go about actually firing off "spectate this one" or determining the end of a game -- exiting you can do with a simple process kill.

On June 13 2014 11:51 Craton wrote:
Well you could try, but I doubt you'd get much love. You could ask for help in the programming thread but I wouldn't expect much from them either.

One way or another you're writing code or someone's writing it for you.

On June 13 2014 11:52 Craton wrote:
It's a very niche question and answer. Someone is effectively coding for you or walking you through every step of how to do the code.