Toyhouse Data

[work in progress] An API wrapper for the site Toyhou.se to retrieve data about user profiles, character profiles, forum posts and more.

This is very much a niche project (lol) but I'm hoping it'll serve some use to anyone curious!

Important

This project is currently not usable, as Toyhou.se staff have implemented measures against bots following account breaches and unsolicited spam.

Prerequisites

• Python3
• Requests
• BeautifulSoup4

Installation

You can now use pip to install this project! Simply run:

py -m pip install toyhouse

This project can be found here, albeit slightly out of date.

Important

I cannot guarantee that this service works on profiles with extreme custom CSS, legacy layouts or profile warnings! If you want to use this, please manually visit https://toyhou.se/~account/display and turn off all three settings under 'Profile Browsing'. In the meantime, I will be attempting to fix that.

Usage

Start by importing the module, then instantiating either the Session or GuestSession class to start the session. With the former, you are required to authenticate (actually log in) using auth() It is highly recommended to log in with a Session in order to access logged-in user only/authorise-only profiles and content.

file_path here is an optional argument - it dictates a folder in which relevant images are saved.

For instance, if you want to save a user's profile picture in your Documents folder, you would add C:/Users/<yourusername>/Documents, and the profile picture would then be downloaded in the subfolder /<thatuser>/. If left blank, the subfolder will be placed in the directory where this code is currently running.

import toyhouse
session = toyhouse.Session("<username>", "<password>", "file_path")
session.auth()
# alternatively
session = toyhouse.GuestSession("<file_path>")

Examples

If you don't care about the docs and just want to know how you can use this, see the Snippets page.

Functions

Session

session = toyhouse.Session("<username>", "<password>")
session.auth()

Starts a new logged-in Session using the credentials above, letting you access information on the Toyhouse website.

session = toyhouse.GuestSession()

Starts a new Guest Session. No authentication is required, but you will be limited to only publicly viewable data.

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User

user_info = toyhouse.User(session, "<username>")

Creates a new User object, letting you retrieve information about whatever user is listed there.

chars

user_info.chars
# Returns 
[('Althea', 12391***, 'https://toyhou.se/12391***.althea', 'https://toyhou.se/<username>/characters/<folder:folderid>?page=<page>')]

Outputs a list of tuples containing every character from that user accessible to the authorised session, in the form (<char_name>, <char_id>, <char_url>, <char_loc>).

stats

user_info.stats
# Returns 
{'Time Registered': '22 Mar 2019, **:**:** am', 'Last Logged In': '25 Oct 2023, **:**:** am', 'Invited By': '***', 'Character Count': '***', 'Images Count': '***', 'Literatures Count': '***', 'Words Count': '***', 'Forum Posts Count': '***', 'Subscribed To...': '*** users', 'Subscribed To By...': '*** users', 'Authorizing...': '***', 'Authorized By...': '***'}

Outputs the specified user's publicly viewable statistics (if the user is not self, else it outputs all statistics regardless of hidden status) as a dictionary.

log

user_info.log
# Returns 
[{'date': '6 Nov 2020, **:**:** pm', 'name_from': 'my_old_username', 'name_to': 'my_new_username'}, {'date': '19 Apr 2020, **:**:** am', 'name_from': 'my_oldest_username', 'name_to': 'my_old_username'}]

Outputs the specified user's username change history as a list of dictionaries, with most recent name change first.

pic

user_info.pic(download=True)
# Returns 
<username> profile picture has been saved at <path>

user_info.pic()
# Returns
https://f2.toyhou.se/file/f2-toyhou-se/users/<username>

Retrieves the specified user's profile picture, and if download=True, downloads the image at the file path mentioned under Usage. If download=False, it returns the URL at which you can access the profile picture.

designs

user_info.designs

Outputs a list of tuples in format (<char_name>, <char_id>, <char_url>, <char_loc>) for all characters that the user is credited as a designer of. This format is the same as chars() except with <char_loc> returning the URL + page number that the character is on.

favs

user_info.favs

Outputs a list of tuples in format (<char_name>, <char_id>, <char_url>, <char_loc>) for all characters that the user has favourited. This format is identical to the above, with the addition of also showing what favourites folder the character has been sorted into in <char_loc>

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Character

char_info = toyhouse.Character(session, characterid)

This creates a new Character object, letting you retrieve information about the character profile which corresponds to that ID.

stats

char_info.stats
# Returns 
{'Created': '31 Dec 2018, **:**:** am', 'Creator': '********', 'Favorites': '57'}

Outputs the publicly viewable statistics of the character, including its creation date, creator and favourites amount as a bare minimum (can also include trade listing and designer) as a dictionary.

log

char_info.log
# Returns 
[('20 May 2022, **:**:** pm', 'current_owner'), ('20 Jan 2021, **:**:** pm', 'previous_owner'), ('22 Sep 2020, **:**:** pm', 'previous_previous_owner')]

Outputs the previous ownership log of the character as a list of tuples in form (<transfer date>, <recipient of transfer>), starting with the most recent transfer (so the current owner) first.

favs

char_info.favs
# Returns 
['i_favourited_this_character', 'i_did_too', 'i_did_as_well']

Outputs a list of all accounts that have the character favourited.

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Forum

forum_info = toyhouse.Forum(session, forumboardid)

Creates a new Forum object, letting you retrieve information about Forum boards and their posts.

threads

forum_info.threads

Outputs a list of tuples in format [(thread_title, thread_author, thread_creation_date)] for the threads on the first page of a specific forum board. There is currently no distinguishing between pinned threads and standard threads.

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To-Do List

• Retrieve character stats (favourites/favourite amount - comments/comment amount - ownership log)

• Add Guest Session

• Find a profile which has multiple designers listed

• Add the character's name into character statistics, since that's kind of important

• Retrieve other users' favourite characters, ID, and folders/subfolders/page they are located on.

• Test on profiles with custom CSS

• Add better ways to catch errors (e.g login credentials incorrect)