Is writing a python script to iterate over replay "parts" to automatically download all 165 parts of an EC match allowed?

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Hello!

Air Sim EC matches are split into ~165 or more replay files that all need downloading to play it locally. While you can just click “start replay”, it often gets buggy and cuts out within an hour of playtime.

As such, I’ve been considering writing a simple python script that does a for loop and downloads all 165 files with say a 15 second delay between each request.

Is this acceptable or does it count as abusing the replay server and potentially endanger my account?

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Downloading all this manually is a pain.

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Worst case scenario they rate limit you. sleep for like a second between each part to avoid that and to let the server breathe I guess.

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I remember on the old forum someone was looking at how to download the replays to get the results from them, and decode it so they could show the battle-log in plaintext.

I can’t remember what happened to it, and them, and where they got to, but I know I commented on thier post acknowledging how cool it was and that it could be a cool thing for information and such.