Poll Master Server from outside Unity

I couldn't find any documentation anywhere about how to query / poll the master server from outside of a Unity application.

Is it possible to use HTTP to request a list of all the registered servers playing your game in JSON, CSV, or a similar format?

I can think of quite a few applications where this would be fun!

 

You could get the Masterserver source (from here: http://unity3d.com/support/documentation/Components/net-MasterServerBuild.html) and modify it to use a MySQL database - then you can do whatever you like.

 

Great idea, but it seems a bit involved
There is no way anyone knows of to query the Unity run list server from outside Unity?

Unless communications to the list server are encrypted, it seems like you could at least reverse engineer it's query protocol with a packet sniffer.

All I want to do initially is just add a JS powered badge to my site showing how many people are playing.

 

Does it need to be JS powered?

What about a small unity webplyer?

If all you are doing is querying the masterserver and displaying the info, the player should be pretty light-weight.

It seems kind of like driving a Ferrari in a school zone, but people do it with flash, why not Unity?

 

Brilliant point!

For some reason I have never thought of using Unity like that before, but yeah - just embed the Ferrari - particle effects, 3D text, dynamic lighting, and all! 8)

I had a couple other data sources I wanted to include in my badge, but now that I actually think of it, a totally simple regex based JSON parser inside Unity should do the trick.

Thanks for helping shove my head through the side of the proverbial box... It's a big world out here!