pybfbc2stats

Python 🐍 library for retrieving statistics of Battlefield: Bad Company 2 players. Possible thanks to previous work by Luigi Auriemma and nemo.

Features

• lookup players/personas by id or name
• search for players/personas by name (with wildcard support)
• retrieve all available player statistics
• retrieve player dogtag records
• retrieve player leaderboards
• retrieve server list
• retrieve individual game server's details for (including player list)
• support for all platforms (PC, Xbox 360, PS3)
• full support for async Python

Installation

Simply install the package via pip.

$ pip install pybfbc2stats

Usage

TLS 1.0

The FESL backend only supports TSL 1.0. So, you can only use this library in an environment that allows Python to use TLS 1.0. The easiest and least intrusive way to enable TLS 1.0 support is to set an OPENSSL_CONF environment variable that contains the absolute path to the included openssl.cnf. On Linux, you can set it by running this in the project directory:

export OPENSSL_CONF=$(realpath openssl.cnf)

Basic example

The following examples show how to find a player/persona by name and retrieve their stats using the default as well as the async client.

Retrieve stats using the default FESL client

from urllib.parse import quote

from pybfbc2stats import FeslClient, Platform, Namespace


def main():
    with FeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.pc) as client:
        quoted_name = quote('Krut0r')
        persona = client.lookup_username(quoted_name, Namespace.pc)
        stats = client.get_stats(int(persona['userId']))
        print(stats)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Retrieve stats using the async FESL client

import asyncio
from urllib.parse import quote

from pybfbc2stats import AsyncFeslClient, Platform, Namespace


async def main():
    async with AsyncFeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.pc) as client:
        quoted_name = quote('Krut0r')
        persona = await client.lookup_username(quoted_name, Namespace.pc)
        stats = await client.get_stats(int(persona['userId']))
        print(stats)


if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main())

Retrieve the server list using the default theater client

from pybfbc2stats import FeslClient, TheaterClient, Platform

def main():
    # First, get theater details and login key (lkey) from FESL
    with FeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.ps3) as feslClient:
        theater_hostname, theater_port = feslClient.get_theater_details()
        lkey = feslClient.get_lkey()
    
    # Now use the theater client to get the server list
    with TheaterClient(theater_hostname, theater_port, lkey, Platform.ps3) as theaterClient:
        lobbies = theaterClient.get_lobbies()
        servers = []
        for lobby in lobbies:
            lobby_servers = theaterClient.get_servers(int(lobby['LID']))
            servers.extend(lobby_servers)
        print(servers)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    main()

Retrieve the server list using the async theater client

import asyncio
from pybfbc2stats import AsyncFeslClient, AsyncTheaterClient, Platform

async def main():
    # First, get theater details and login key (lkey) from FESL
    async with AsyncFeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.ps3) as feslClient:
        theater_hostname, theater_port = await feslClient.get_theater_details()
        lkey = await feslClient.get_lkey()
    
    # Now use the theater client to get the server list
    async with AsyncTheaterClient(theater_hostname, theater_port, lkey, Platform.ps3) as theaterClient:
        lobbies = await theaterClient.get_lobbies()
        servers = []
        for lobby in lobbies:
            lobby_servers = await theaterClient.get_servers(int(lobby['LID']))
            servers.extend(lobby_servers)
        print(servers)

if __name__ == '__main__':
    asyncio.run(main())

Client methods

Both the default and the async clients offer the same methods with the same signatures.

Once connected, the clients read from the connection in the background (a thread for the default clients, a task for the async clients) and automatically respond to the backend's ping/memcheck packets. A client therefore stays connected while idle. Clients may also be used for multiple requests in parallel (from multiple threads/tasks), requests are matched to their responses using transaction ids. If the connection is lost, pending requests fail with a ConnectionError. Subsequent requests will automatically reconnect the client and re-authenticate it.

Advanced usage: if you replace a client's connection (e.g. to use a custom host), do so before making the first request. The connection must not be changed once the client has started reading from it.

[Async]FeslClient(username, password, platform, timeout)

Create a new [Async]FeslClient instance.

Note: The account has to be valid for Bad Company 2. If your account does not work, you can create a new one using ealist: .\ealist.exe -A -a [username] [password] bfbc2-pc (the created account will work for all platforms).

Arguments

[Async]FeslClient.hello()

Send the initial "hello" packet to the FESL server.

[Async]FeslClient.memcheck()

Send the response to the FESL server's "memcheck" challenge.

[Async]FeslClient.login()

Send the login details to the FESL server.

[Async]FeslClient.get_lkey()

Get the login key (lkey) used to authenticate on theater backend.

[Async]FeslClient.get_theater_details()

Get the hostname and port of the theater backend for the client's platform.

[Async]FeslClient.lookup_usernames(usernames, namespace)

Lookup a list of url encoded/quoted usernames and return any matching personas (only exact name matches are returned).

Note: Since this method accepts a namespace argument, it can lookup usernames in any namespace (on any platform), regardless of which Platform was used to create the client instance.

Arguments

Example

from urllib.parse import quote

from pybfbc2stats import FeslClient, Platform, Namespace

client = FeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.pc)
names = ['SickLittleMonkey', '[SuX] DeLuXe']
quoted = [quote(name) for name in names]
persona = client.lookup_usernames(quoted, Namespace.pc)

[Async]FeslClient.lookup_username(username, namespace)

Lookup a single url encoded/quoted username and return any matching persona (only exact name matches are returned).

Note: Since this method accepts a namespace argument, it can lookup usernames in any namespace (on any platform), regardless of which Platform was used to create the client instance.

Arguments

Example

from urllib.parse import quote

from pybfbc2stats import FeslClient, Platform, Namespace

client = FeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.ps3)
persona = client.lookup_username(quote('Major Brainhurt'), Namespace.pc)

[Async]FeslClient.lookup_user_ids(user_ids, namespace)

Lookup a list of user ids and return any matching personas.

Note: Since this method accepts a namespace argument, it can lookup user ids in any namespace (on any platform), regardless of which Platform was used to create the client instance.

Arguments

Example

from pybfbc2stats import FeslClient, Platform, Namespace

client = FeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.pc)
persona = client.lookup_user_ids([232302860, 233866102], Namespace.xbox360)

[Async]FeslClient.lookup_user_id(user_id, namespace)

Lookup a single user id and return any matching persona.

Note: Since this method accepts a namespace argument, it can lookup user ids in any namespace (on any platform), regardless of which Platform was used to create the client instance.

Arguments

Example

from pybfbc2stats import FeslClient, Platform, Namespace

client = FeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.pc)
persona = client.lookup_user_id(232302860, Namespace.xbox360)

[Async]FeslClient.search_name(screen_name, namespace)

Find personas given a url encoded/quoted (partial) name. You can use * as a trailing wildcard.

Note: The FESL backend returns an error both if a) no matching results were found and b) too many matching results were found. So, be careful with wildcard characters in combination with short partial names.

Arguments

Example

from urllib.parse import quote

from pybfbc2stats import FeslClient, Platform

client = FeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.pc)
results = client.search_name(quote('[=BL=] larryp11'))

[Async]FeslClient.get_stats(userid, keys)

Retrieve a given list of stats attributes for a given player id on the client instance's platform.

Arguments

Example

from pybfbc2stats import FeslClient, Platform

client = FeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.ps3)
stats = client.get_stats(223789857, [b'accuracy', b'kills', b'deaths', b'score', b'time'])

[Async]FeslClient.get_leaderboard(min_rank, max_rank, sort_by, keys)

Retrieve a given range of players on the leaderboard with the given list of stats, sorted by a given key, on the client instance's platform.

Note: There does not seem to be a hard limit to either the rank rage size nor the number of stats keys that can be retrieved for each player. You will, however, need to increase your client-wide timeout if you are planning to retrieve large chunks of the leaderboard or lots of stats attributes.

Arguments

Example

from pybfbc2stats import FeslClient, Platform

client = FeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.pc)
leaderboard = client.get_leaderboard(1, 50, b'time')

[Async]FeslClient.get_dogtags(userid)

Retrieve a list of players the given player id has taken dogtags from.

Note: The FESL backend returns an error both if a) the given user id does not exist and b) the user has not yet taken any dogtags.

Arguments

Example

from pybfbc2stats import FeslClient, Platform

client = FeslClient('ea_account_name', 'ea_account_password', Platform.ps3)
dogtags = client.get_dogtags(223789857)

[Async]TheaterClient(host, port, lkey, platform, timeout)

Create a new [Async]TheaterClient instance.

Arguments

[Async]TheaterClient.connect()

Initialize the connection to the Theater backend by sending the initial CONN/hello packet.

[Async]TheaterClient.authenticate()

Authenticate against/log into the Theater backend using the lkey retrieved via FESL.

[Async]TheaterClient.get_lobbies()

Retrieve all available game (server) lobbies.

Example

from pybfbc2stats import TheaterClient, Platform

client = TheaterClient('bfbc2-ps3-server.theater.ea.com', 18336, 'your_lkey', Platform.ps3)
lobbies = client.get_lobbies()

[Async]TheaterClient.get_servers(lobby_id)

Retrieve all available game servers from the given lobby.

Arguments

Example

from pybfbc2stats import TheaterClient, Platform

client = TheaterClient('bfbc2-ps3-server.theater.ea.com', 18336, 'your_lkey', Platform.ps3)
servers = client.get_servers(257)

[Async]TheaterClient.get_server_details(lobby_id, game_id)

Retrieve full details and player list for a given server.

Arguments

Example

from pybfbc2stats import TheaterClient, Platform

client = TheaterClient('bfbc2-ps3-server.theater.ea.com', 18336, 'your_lkey', Platform.ps3)
general, detailed, players = client.get_server_details(257, 120018)

[Async]TheaterClient.get_current_server(user_id)

Retrieve full details and player list for a given user's current server (server they are currently playing on, raises a PlayerNotFound exception if the player is not currently playing online).

Arguments

Example

from pybfbc2stats import TheaterClient, Platform

client = TheaterClient('bfbc2-ps3-server.theater.ea.com', 18336, 'your_lkey', Platform.ps3)
general, detailed, players = client.get_current_server(227528903)