Roblox username web scraper with multithreading
What this Python program does is gather as many usernames of
Roblox profiles as it can and store them in a text document.
Multithreading allows it to send lots of requests for different
profiles at once, and also store the usernames in proper numerical
order.
This project I remember working on in my dorm room during my
freshman year at GMU. I'll admit I also felt a bit like
Mark Zuckerberg as portrayed in The Social Network, which
I had recently watched for a computer science course.
Scraping the Roblox website for data to store for my own
purposes... if I could think of a real use for it, that is.
This program worked a lot better when I first made it. When
I went back to it to record the video, I found that Roblox had
changed the layout of their profile pages. Also my program
was receiving new errors from the Roblox website, so I had to work
around those to get the program working again.
On and older version of my site I had posted a download link
for the first 1,000,000 roblox usernames in a text document,
but since it seems to crash Notepad now, I've decided it's best not
to share it anymore.