About

This is a service designed for retrieving the key of a Second Life avatar from their known name.

Why

Unfortunately most scripting tasks require you to know the key of the avatar you need to interact with. As of yet Second Life does not provide an easy way to translate names into keys. In the past scanners were used to record avatars that pass by, which is fairly ineffective. Essentially I got tired of attempting to look up someone's key and coming up empty, had a nifty service I wanted to utilize in some way and a little bit too much caffeine.

How

We utilize the Second Life Search to provide the requested keys. In a way it is pretty much a simple proxy, however it removes all the unneeded information, provides caching, and validates the result. Since LSL doesn't provide any regexp functionality this would be challenging and would break upon any changes to the target website. This service removes the complexity and provides a central point of control in the event that Linden Labs feels the need to change their search page.

Limitations

This is free to use by anybody without any stipulations except those provided here. 1) We simply ask that you do not attempt to abuse the service via denial of service. 2) You accept that you are using this service under your own risk. 3) If you feel like it, you may credit us for providing this service. However, you may not use that as an advertisement of endorsement.