A web scraper that can convert byond://BYOND.world.[123456789] into [IP ADDR]:[PORT] format.

Byond2IP was created to facilitate requirements for a larger project that will be able to track and graph individual players movements on the Byond hub.

While this project is currently only monitoring Space Station 13 servers the byond hub URL can be modified in ./scripts/GetByond.sh.

To convert a single Byond URL into an IP address you can add it to ./config/worlds.txt in the format:

[Server Name]:[Byond DIGITS]
-->
Test Server:123456789

Alternatively the list can be automatically generated from the byond hub by running ./scripts/generate.sh.

Byond2IP starts up a minimal Byond application that reads the list of worlds from ./config/worlds.txt and then uses world.Export() to query servers with the ?ping command via world/Topic(). Through this exchange the byond hub decodes the Byond URL and a connection is opened to the actual IP address. This address is then retrieved by referencing the output of netstat. Due to this requirement Byond2IP will only output reliable results on a system with minimal network traffic.

Byond2IP should store a persistant list of IP addresses it finds rather than wiping the whole list and starting again each time.