AOL BIG Documents.

[Gumby]

AOL,AIM BIG Document - by Gumby.net

BIG from what I can tell is used to look up information on iChat, AIM, and AOL accounts. Mostly BART (Buddy Art) information and a little extra information can be accessed by anyone through BIG.

Please note that while looking up information, the screen name you query
has no spaces in it, and is preferably lowercased.


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BIG Servers:

1) big.oscar.aol.com
2) big.aimimg.com
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BartSNQuery - Look up various BART information
http://SERVER_HERE/BartSNQuery?type=TYPE_HERE&screenname=SCREEN_NAME

Working Look Up of UK's Icon:
http://big.oscar.aol.com/BartSNQuery?type=1&screenname=earth
(Yes, that's a two character screen name.)

Type: Information:
0 Small Icon
1 Buddy Icon
2 Status Text
3 Arrive Sound
4 Rich Name*
5 Super Buddy Icon
6 Radio Station*
7 Super Buddy Icon Triggers*
9 Status Text Link*
10 Location*
96 Depart Sound
128 IM Background
129 IM Wallpaper
130 IM Skin
131 IM Sound
132 Badge**
134 IM Initial Sound*
136 Flash Wallpaper
256 Buddylist Background
257 Buddylist Image
258 Buddylist Skin
1024 Emoticon Set
1026 Official Security Certificate**
1027 Official Security Certificate**

* Some Russian OSCAR blog shared
these, and I can't guarantee they
exist.

** I've known about these, just
not what the official name is.
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BartIDQuery - Look up buddy icons according to their ID.
http://SERVER_HERE/BartIDQuery?id=ID_HERE

Working Santa Claus Icon URL:
http://big.oscar.aol.com/BartIDQuery?id=000100052b0000058f

ID Base is 000100052b0000

Use the base plus four more hexadecimal digits.
(Case doesn't matter in the ID.)
Example: 000100052b0000058f

* Note that not every ID is used

If you don't know what hex is, you should google it, but
for a simple explanation in this document you can use:

0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, A, B, C, D, E, or F

So basically pick four of those to build a random ID.

More examples if you still don't understand:
000100052b0000D234 (base = 000100052b0000; 4 digits = D234)
000100052b00000123
000100052b00000012
000100052b0000A12B
000100052b0000280F
000100052b0000ABCD
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PopularQuery - Get AIM Fight score
(Go to http://aimfight.com for more information)
http://SERVER_HERE/PopularQuery?screenname=SCREEN_NAME

Working PopularQuery For ASDF:
http://big.oscar.aol.com/PopularQuery?screenname=asdf

This Returns XML with the queried screen name's:
Current Buddy Score
Max Buddy Score
Overall Rank
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Online Presence - Detects a screen name's online or offline presence.
http://SERVER_HERE/SCREEN_NAME?on_url=END_URL&off_url=END_URL

Working Online Presence Query For aliptix:
http://big.oscar.aol.com/earth?on_u..._url=http://www.aol.com:80/aim/gr/offline.gif

If the user is online it will go to the END_URL in
the on_url input and visa versa.

* Notes:
- User http:// in front of both END_URLs
- This shows a queried user as offline if
they have on privacy or are ghosted.
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PS, YOU CAN CREATE IN VISUAL BASIC AS PROG.

 

[Fresh Prince]

I have no clue wtf this is, but Gumby is a l33t hax0r vouch!

 

[Distinct]

That's awesome I'll probably be using some of these, they can be put to a pretty creative use.

 

[Distinct]

This could be used to make a nice little AIM profile viewer, thanks

I've actually been working on one, and so far I can pull all of their statuses, and display name along with icon, but the API I used was expapi.aol.com. I might trade it in for the query URL though.