Does any1 know where I can get a program to grab HH's off poker stars?


thanks in advance

-deuce

It's against Stars TOS to datamine.

thats not what he asked

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Ummm.... I had one for about a year. I may have left it running one day after I logged into Stars, which I had never done before. Only ran it while not logged in. Insta-account-closing, while I was playing. They asked me to send an email that said "I did not know it was against TOS, will not happen again." I did so very quickly.

My suggestion would be, its not worth it to lose your account. Just play FT if you need to data-mine.

My 2 cents.

I am very glad someone has stepped out and said they have been noticed.

Thank you CrushDreams.

just play a bunch of hands and u will get a lot of hands on all the regs, I play at stars and its very easy, I wouldnt even datamine even if I could

I remember a uNL guy in the Micro-Brew sayin he got caught also.

IIRC a while ago KLJ mentioned a friend of his got account shutdown, but was not a 2p2er.

not worth it imo - and no way I support the scripts to do so.

I don't believe we should even be using this forum to discuss how to break/skirt sites TOS, and I can't for the life of me imagine why it would be good for 2p2 LLC's reputation - but others disagree at this time.

as Demon says - just play some hands!!! it does not take long to build up decent samples on the regs.

dave.

Yep - I mined/played tons at FTP.

Switched to Stars - have never even considered trying to learn how to mine it. Not worth it, imo - but I am a nit.

Some guy in the uNL brew said Stars would take his money if he continued.

Guess he stopped.

I wouldn't advise you to do it either.

At the risk of getting yelled at that datamining at Stars is illegal....

In order to use that script, you must download AutoHotKey....

This is what I have so far. When you run it, a window will appear with three boxes. The first one is obvious, just click browse and find your hand history directory. If it's not in the normal folder, you can type the path. The middle box is where you type the number of hands you want to get. If the checkbox just underneath is not checked, the program will also use that figure to find out how far down to scroll. That is, if there are 100 hands in the instant hand history window but you type 5 in the middle box of my program, it will just grab the five hands without scrolling down, whereas if you type 100 it will scroll down and grab them all. It does this by simply dividing the number of hands you enter by 18 and then using the answer as the number of times it hits the "page down" button in the hand history window before grabbing the hands.

If you check the checkbox another box will appear. Let's say you want to grab five hands, but you want the last five hands and there are 200 or so in the hand history window. Then you type 5 in the first box and 200 in the box next to it. This second box serves the same "page down" function as I just mentioned, but is useful if you want to only grab the last few hands. You can type a large number, like 2000 in the second box, and the program will just keep trying to scroll down for another second or two even after it hits the bottom (since it is hitting the page down button in the hand history window more than necessary). I have found that the hand history window never displays more than 1500 or so hands, so when I have my program running at night, I just type 1600 or 1700 in that second box and grab 300 or 400 at a time (in the first box).

At this point, you can just hit "single grab" and it will go get the number of hands, or you can use the timer function which is the bottom box. In that you type how ever many seconds you want in between hand grabbing. The program will then perform a "single grab" over and over every [whatever number you input] seconds. The countdown is running while the hand-grabbing is going on, so be sure to allow for enough time to finish the hand-grabbing before it attempts to start over or else the program will have problems. As a rule, I would use 100 plus 60 seconds per every hundred hands you are grabbing. So for 300 hands, I would use 280 seconds (100 + 3*60 = 100 + 180 = 280). When I run it at night, I usually have 300 in the first middle box, 1600 in the second middle box, and 280 in the bottom timer box.

At any point, you can hit the escape button and if it is hand-grabbing, it will stop and close the IHH window, and if it is just the program up, the program will exit. If you hit escape to stop hand-grabbing, be aware that you will have to restart the script because for some reason escaping out of the hand-grabbing screws it up and the "single grab" and "timer" buttons no longer work after you hit escape.

My program also uses the mouse in order to find the ClassNN numbers for the various parts of the hand history window, so if you have a weird screen size or have resized the hand history window or something, it is possible that it won't work correctly. If that is the case, or if you have any other problems with it, just let me know. There are many redundant hands in each the file it creates, but I'd rather that than miss some hands.

Hope you find the program useful.

We disagree simply because the ethical considerations are different from the rules. Datamining is legal on most other major sites and an accepted practice. Players know it happens and many do it themselves. But as you and many have pointed out, Stars is singling itself out as a safe place for that not to happen, and as many players go there expecting that service, it is definitely questionable in ethical terms. I have used my script, but I felt bad about it, so I just play on FTP and play SNGs on Stars.

i'd like to run this great thing on a remote-windows pc. when i connect to it via remote desktop everything works fine. but when i disconnect the script only writes the table names followed by two blank lines in the txt-file. is there any work-around for this issue?

Does the AHK script only work for one table at a time?

I don't think you should feel bad about it. It is obviously possible to datamine stars if a person wants to. It is not something that they can affectively enforce. IMHO, they should just allow it like FTP does then every player is assured of an opportunity at an level playing field.

Sure they can they can just close ur account, and poof enforced!

Sure, if you were to datamine from the same computer and IP address where you play.

Poker office datmines all open tables automatically

It's possible that the screen size is different and therefore the mouse position needs to be changed.

Change the line "MouseMove, 88, 364" with "MouseMove, 240, 450" and let me know if that fixes the problem. I don't knwo if it will, but it's worth a try. If it doesn't I really can't think of anything else.... Sorry.

Even Stars????

I don't have it, how is it???

No, it gets the data from the instant hand history window, which has info on all open tables.

How do I set up a proxy IP for logging on?? So far I've just been changing all my internet browser's proxy servers. Should I be doing something else?????

hmm ... it didn't work. with these numbers the txt's are totally empty but have th size of some kB