Request info from headless server via local network

[Edgar_VL]

Hello forum users.

I wrote a small web service which allows to my friends to turn on the factorio host (wol) and start factorio server on it.
For further development of this service I whant to get server information on local network. Specifically I'am interested in getting number of online players.

I know about matchmaking API (https://wiki.factorio.com/Matchmaking_API), but it requires authentication, and i think that spamming requests on a timer to multiplayer.factorio.com is not very good idea.

So is it possible to get server information directly from the server?

[Rseding91]

Yes, you can use RCON locally to talk to the server and ask for the player count that way. See the wiki about how.

[Edgar_VL]

Thanks, never heard about RCON before.
I've got new question about rcon configuring. It's working only if i set arguments to the factorio executable, but also there ara same parameters at /factorio/config/config.ini

I've set these options like this:

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; Socket to host RCON on when lauching MP server from the menu.
; local-rcon-socket=0.0.0.0:25575

; Password for RCON when launching MP server from the menu.
; local-rcon-password=strongPass

But this does not work, what I'm doing wrong?

[FuryoftheStars]

Thanks, never heard about RCON before.
I've got new question about rcon configuring. It's working only if i set arguments to the factorio executable, but also there ara same parameters at /factorio/config/config.ini

I've set these options like this:

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; Socket to host RCON on when lauching MP server from the menu.
; local-rcon-socket=0.0.0.0:25575

; Password for RCON when launching MP server from the menu.
; local-rcon-password=strongPass

But this does not work, what I'm doing wrong?

Try this:

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; Socket to host RCON on when lauching MP server from the menu.
local-rcon-socket=0.0.0.0:25575

; Password for RCON when launching MP server from the menu.
local-rcon-password=strongPass

[Edgar_VL]

Try this:

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; Socket to host RCON on when lauching MP server from the menu.
local-rcon-socket=0.0.0.0:25575

; Password for RCON when launching MP server from the menu.
local-rcon-password=strongPass

Thasnks
But this doesn't work either.

[Nidan]

The comments for the options say "when launching MP server from the menu". Are you actually doing that? If you are starting the server via command line instead, check the output from --help, it should mention similar options.