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AVATAR NAME --> Key

MariaBeatriz Beck
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Join date: 2 Aug 2007
Posts: 10
01-08-2008 07:54
Is any way, to retrieve the AVATAR key using the AVATAR name?

Thanks,
Day Oh
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Join date: 3 Feb 2007
Posts: 1,257
01-08-2008 08:40
There are online databases of avatar keys by avatar names, scripts can query them using llHTTPRequest. Here are some popular ones:

http://www.moopf.com/name2key.php
http://w-hat.com/name2key

I used the w-hat one in one of my projects.

Traditionally these rely on SL users to submit keys to the database, using scripts or by submitting the name.cache the SL viewer creates. With a database like that, sometimes an avatar won't be listed yet. I don't know whether these particular services do it, but you can connect to the Second Life grid as a client and search the people directory for an avatar to retrieve the avatar's key.

There's a bot you can IM named Key2name Flow, for an inworld name2key service. I don't know if it's accessible to scripts.

Clients usually start with an avatar key and lookup the name, and the quickest way to do the opposite is to search the people directory.
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