I often find myself refreshing the "Active Players" page to see if a user has logged on yet. To make this process simpler, I recently created an applescript for use on Mac OS X that opens this page in Safari, and refreshes it every 60 seconds in order to check if a user has logged on yet. You can, of course, collapse the Safari window into the dock, so it doesn't get in the way, and the script will still function fine. When the user logs on, it will display a dialog box notification in the Finder.

You can get information about the app, see the source code, and download it here: http://www.everythingdigital.org/weblog/archives/2005/05/vendetta_online.html

Got it.
I love this script.

Doesn't work for me. It opens safarri then says "cannot find //docu" or something like that

That's what it's supposed to do at first. Leave it be, and it will work in a couple more seconds. It has delays to ensure that it works on slow computers where Safari takes a while to start up.

Okay, then it says "SomethingSomethingError: 4" and I can click "Edit" or "Okay" IS that suposed to happen?

Ah, then that really is an error. Why don't you try opening the Vendetta Active Players page in Safari before starting the script, that way it will have no problem finding the player list.

Working now. So it gives a notice when the user logs on? What about off? And if you open it again will it track two users at once?

You can probably open multiple instances of the script to track more than one user, although I haven't tested it. It only notifies when the user logs on, since I originally intended it more as a notification as to when I should log in if I was waiting for another player.

If you like this, check out the VOBuddy program created by jjoonathan here:
http://vendetta-online.com/x/msgboard/5/10193

Interesting bug with this script program...it disables my "a" key. (Mac OS 10.3.9)

I though of something like this earlier, never posted or tried to implement. Could the script be modified to automatically save the info on the active players page every X seconds?