Comments on: How to create your own Xbox Live Gamercard

By: D Fineout

D Fineout — Sun, 17 Jan 2010 16:47:31 +0000

You can now use the 360voice API to provide the data feed. Check out http://360voice.gamerdna.com/forum/topic.asp?TOPIC_ID=3

By: PSN API | I'll brb I have to use the Blog

PSN API | I'll brb I have to use the Blog — Thu, 27 Aug 2009 13:04:45 +0000

[...] up with a way to get the trophy information out of the PS3. I had recently found an old tutorial on how to use xbox 360 achievement data to create a custom gamertag in Flash so I wanted to see if there was a Playstation based project. It turns out there [...]

By: Twinkling82

Twinkling82 — Wed, 01 Jul 2009 02:35:02 +0000

sorry for my confusing message back in april. It is an API, I just didn’t know what an API was at the time.

By: reminator

reminator — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 06:07:04 +0000

i’d really like to integrate code in my flash site, so that when iget in it, i’d see my gamer card !

anyone has an idea how i can use the code you guys did ?

By: Jordi

Jordi — Thu, 14 May 2009 19:23:12 +0000

It’s still possible and if I have some more free time I can see if I can change it to work with Dave’s API suggestion. In the mean time the suggestion from Twinkling82 also seems really promising! Thanks!

By: Alberto

Alberto — Tue, 12 May 2009 14:34:18 +0000

So is it still possible to run the script? I mean, Dave just gave you a new API.. so i was just wondering.

By: Twinkling82

Twinkling82 — Thu, 16 Apr 2009 07:08:07 +0000

Here’s a solution. Both for wordpress, but also for pure php code. Without the API!

http://www.ardamis.com/2007/03/29/xbox-360-gamercard-wordpress-plugin/

By: Dave

Dave — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 10:15:25 +0000

Yes I Know Of A New API From Another Xbox Dev

http://duncanmackenzie.net/services/GetXboxInfo.aspx?GamerTag=grimrandomer

just replace grimrandomer with your gamertag and you get all your data in xml form

By: Jordi

Jordi — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 10:21:55 +0000

Looks good Zach! They way I did it sure isn’t the only way to do it and your example is a perfect alternative. There is one issue though, on each request you’re retreiving the XML from xboxlivenation. Now if you have a small site this won’t really matter but if you do get a lot of visitors it might be better to cache the XML on your own server. That way you’ll save bandwidth for xboxlivenation

By: Zachary Cutler

Zachary Cutler — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 07:16:40 +0000

Hello again, thank you for this, as i stated in my earlier comment I have been searching for this for quite a while. I was frustrated with having to use CURL though and figured that many people would not have access to a php server so I looked it over and figured out a way to simplify it all into just your shockwave file, no JSON or php files necessary.

Instead of the JSON script replace it all with this modified on

_root.gamercardxblcustom = “http://www.xboxlivenation.com/api/xlnapigt.xml?gt=ENTERGAMERTAGHERE!!!”;
var gamercardxblcustomXML:XML = new XML();
gamercardxblcustomXML.ignoreWhite = true;
gamercardxblcustomXML.load(gamercardxblcustom);
gamercardxblcustomXML.onLoad = function() {
cardcreate();
};

function cardcreate() {
gamertag_mc.gamertag_txt.text = gamercardxblcustomXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[0].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
var details = gamercardxblcustomXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[2].childNodes[0].nodeValue + “\n” + gamercardxblcustomXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[3].childNodes[0].nodeValue + “\n” + gamercardxblcustomXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[7].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
gamertag_mc.details_txt.text = details;

var pic_mcl:MovieClipLoader = new MovieClipLoader();
var pic_mclListener:Object = new Object();
var tile:String = gamercardxblcustomXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[5].childNodes[0].nodeValue;

var tileArray = tile.split(” “);
tile = tileArray.join(”+”);

trace(”loading: “+ tile);

pic_mclListener.onLoadInit = function(target_mc:MovieClip):Void
{
trace(”loaded”);
}

pic_mcl.addListener(pic_mclListener);
pic_mcl.loadClip(tile, gamertag_mc.picture_mc.image_mc);

gamertag_mc.picture_mc.link = gamercardxblcustomXML.childNodes[0].childNodes[1].childNodes[6].childNodes[0].nodeValue;
gamertag_mc.picture_mc.onPress = function():Void
{
getURL(this.link);
}

};

This will make the .swf read the xml file directly making life easier for everyone =D. I have the example .fla and .swf uploaded here: http://www.linkofdarkness.com/site/public/downloads/JRxblcard/xblcustomcard.zip