User data not including presence

[samuelthomas2774]

/v3/Account/Login, /v3/Account/GetToken and /v3/User/ShowSelf currently seem to be returning incorrect presence data. This object is always returned (which looks the same as the presence object for users who have never been online, or are not sharing their presence with you):

"presence": {
    "state": "OFFLINE",
    "updatedAt": 0,
    "logoutAt": 0,
    "game": {}
}

/v3/Friend/List still returns correct presence data.

[samuelthomas2774]

NSO-RPC users have confirmed they also don't get their own presence data anymore. (#13, #11 comment)

I don't think this will be fixed any time soon. Most likely Nintendo has stopped providing the current user's presence data intentionally, or there's an issue or unintentional change with the API that they don't care about as the app doesn't show the current user's presence anyway.

• If the user's own presence data was removed on purpose, why not just remove the presence object entirely from the response to those endpoints?

  TODO: check if the app reads this data, even if it doesn't use it anywhere. This could mean Nintendo would have to update the app to remove a feature that they apparently never added.

  Modifying the response to remove the presence object doesn't affect the app.

• Also if this was removed on purpose, why? To stop anyone using nxapi or NSO-RPC to connect to Discord specifically? Or because Nintendo noticed more requests to /v3/User/ShowSelf? (Or increased login attempts while NSO-RPC did that?) Or just an (unnecessary) optimisation as it wasn't used anyway?

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This change means that a separate account (with your own account added as a friend) is required to fetch your own presence.

For nxapi:

1. Add an account that's friends with you to nxapi using nxapi nso auth.

   If you don't have access to an account you can use:

   1. Create a new user on your Nintendo Switch and link a new Nintendo Account.
   2. Add that user as your friend, and make sure it can see your presence.
   3. (Optionally) delete the new user from your console (not the Nintendo Account). (You might want to keep if there if you want to add other users as friends to fetch their presence as well.)

   If you can, to reduce requests to Nintendo, set up nxapi's znc API proxy server to allow multiple other users to fetch their presence at the same time. Then use the --presence-url option when running nxapi nso presence.

2. Run nxapi users list to find:

   • The Nintendo Account ID (first column titled ID) of the new automated account, and...
   • The Network Service Account ID (fifth column titled NSA ID) of your own account that you want to fetch the presence of (the same NSA ID should be listed when running nxapi nso friends as the automated account).

3. When running nxapi nso presence, set the --user option to the Nintendo Account ID of the new automated account, and set the --friend-nsaid option to the Network Service Account ID of the user you want to share presence of.

   If you want to share your friend code in Discord, you'll have to specify it manually after the --friend-code option.

For NSO-RPC users, watch this issue and wait for an update: MCMi460/NSO-RPC#13

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Other options:

• If you have custom firmware, I'd recommend using one of the tools that can fetch your presence directly from your console. This avoids requests to Nintendo entirely (and works if your console is banned or not up to date).
• Parental Controls data, but not really as it updates way too slow, as it's meant to show past activity. nxapi's Discord integration and NSO-RPC are only really feasible as znc provides this data in real time.

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@MCMi460 You'll need to add something similar for NSO-RPC so a friend can be selected to share their presence (I'm guessing that was your original plan as well).

Also I've published the script to export my Discord client IDs, you can fetch them from the same links I shared here, or if you install nxapi from source you can run nxapi util export-discord-titles. (Anyone else that wants to use these Discord applications you must ask me first.)