As previously mentioned I’ve been working on a Perl library for talking to the Wordfeud game servers.
After having issues logging in to my own account, I’ve discovered that passwords on older accounts seem to have a fixed string appended to them. I have no idea why – the new account which I created with my API does not share this requirement, so I can only assume it’s some kind of legacy mechanism to allow users to have no password set.
Anyway, now that I no longer see a ‘wrong_password’ response on my own account, work can continue. My first project is going to be a simple webapp which will allow the user to view the board layout, their own rack and the remaining tiles for any of their active games.
Here’s the output from the proof of concept script I knocked together which does just that – just need to wrap it in something prettier now (and which doesn’t just have a hardcoded game ID!)
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