HoN Client Scraper

This set of messy python scripts fetch data from HoN's public servers. Used Wireshark to figure out the requests being made.

How to use

• Requires Python3 (any version should work, written in Python 3.10.2).
• Create a virtualenv (python -m venv ~/.venvs/hon-client-scraper/) and run pip install -r requirements.txt
• Run python main.py --help to get a list of arguments
• Example execution: python main.py -sv 3.3.5 -o wac -a i686

Flow

1. Create required directories
2. Fetch zipped manifest file
3. Extract the file inside the specific version
4. Iterate through the XML manifest file and fetch each child file
5. Skip already downloaded files.

The manifest file also contains checksum, zipsize and filesize attributes. While in most cases they match, a lot of false mismatches were appearing so there's no checking functionality.

Parameters

os: The operating system. Available options are:

• wac (Windows)
• mac (MacOS)
• linux

arch: The architecture

• i686
• x86_64

version The client's version. It adheres to semver. Even though a lot of the code uses 4 digit version of semver (e.g. 2.6.35.1) in most cases when the 4th digit is 0 then the semver gets truncated to a 3 digit one.

Examples:

• 2.6.35.1 becomes 2.6.35.1
• 2.6.35.0 becomes 2.6.35
• 2.6.35 becomes 2.6.35

Client cookie

HoN client uses a 32 byte cookie that is passed around. In case you need it you can get it from the HoN client. It looks like 12345678a2b4c6d8e2f4162832445668.

This is not a valid cookie.

Currently you can manually set it in main.py main() function, when calling _client.patcher().

HoN client information

HoN client is avaliable for the following platforms:

• Windows
• Linux
• MacOS