RollyBug
Member
So I was bored today and thought I'd examine the GMC some more to see how it worked and maybe find inspiration for additional data mining. Something I came across was what seems to be how the system keeps track of visits to particular pages.
If you visit this link,
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?find-new/profile-posts
The URL will change to something like:
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?find-new/7195302/profile-posts
That number in the middle (7195302) is I believe the running count for how many times that query has been run. If I click on it a bunch of times in succession it'll count each one.
Something else I've learned is that pages have some title followed by the post/user/whatever ID, like so:
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?members/rollybug.27145/
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/gml-updates-in-2019-follow-up-ama.61623/
But you can access these with the title removed and ONLY the ID like so,
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?members/27145/
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/61623/
Which means that a user could seemingly very easily enumerate through each page of a subsection of the forum using a technique similar to how I pulled the profile pictures for the GMC user collage.
And of course there are a number of things you can add to the end of that URL to specify something, like:
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.p...n-2019-follow-up-ama.61623/page-6#post-421571
There's a lot of cool functionality hidden within the site. Know of anything else? Share it with us below
If you visit this link,
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?find-new/profile-posts
The URL will change to something like:
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?find-new/7195302/profile-posts
That number in the middle (7195302) is I believe the running count for how many times that query has been run. If I click on it a bunch of times in succession it'll count each one.
Something else I've learned is that pages have some title followed by the post/user/whatever ID, like so:
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?members/rollybug.27145/
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/gml-updates-in-2019-follow-up-ama.61623/
But you can access these with the title removed and ONLY the ID like so,
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?members/27145/
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.php?threads/61623/
Which means that a user could seemingly very easily enumerate through each page of a subsection of the forum using a technique similar to how I pulled the profile pictures for the GMC user collage.
And of course there are a number of things you can add to the end of that URL to specify something, like:
https://forum.yoyogames.com/index.p...n-2019-follow-up-ama.61623/page-6#post-421571
There's a lot of cool functionality hidden within the site. Know of anything else? Share it with us below