RareishMCNameAvailabilityChecker

Flask program which cycles through all 3 and 4 letter accepted Minecraft account usernames, checking their availability using PlayerDB.co and displaying the results on a localhost webpage. Made this because I wanted a "rare" Minecraft username. :)

Usage

1. Install Python 3.12.7+ at https://www.python.org/downloads/.
2. Download the source files for the program.
3. Extract the zip file wherever you want.
4. Run app.py where you extracted the zip file.
5. Go to the development server link, typically http://127.0.0.1:5000/.

• Press Start to start cycling through 3 and 4 letter usernames.
• Press Stop to stop cycling.
• Press Reset to clear cache to be able to restart from aaa.
• You will be able to see available (status code 400) and taken usernames (status code 200) on the webpage.
• "Rate-limited usernames" include those who were hit with status code 429.
• "Other usernames" encountered any other status code.
• "Error usernames" are those who encountered an exception in the program unexpectedly.
• Cache of all checked usernames is saved in username_cache.json.