Minecraft User Lookup - see prior names!

Everyone,

With name changes now available, there has been concern about players trying to sneak past bans/etc.  However, Mojang has made some web-based calls available to allow us to look up prior names, and the times they were changed.  I have made a program that does this, and also prints out the unique ID, if a user only has "demo" status, and if the account hasn't been migrated over to the new Mojang account format.

This should help everyone out.  Note that I didn't focus on UI, I just got something that worked enough for informational purposes.

(I also tried to make it a webpage, but was running into cross-site issues, so I just went with the java version.)

https://dl.dropboxusercontent.com/u/74718084/minecraft_user_lookup.jar

Lomgren the master programmer!  Thank you!  

Ciabatta wrote:Lomgren the master programmer!  Thank you!  

Yeah, its a neat concept and good execution. I believe this deserves a round of applause. (Or this)

Oh wow this is very helpful!

Thanks Lom

I have updated the tool - it's in the same location, it just needed a bit more work. If a username wasn't found, it would just sit there and do nothing, leaving you confused. It now says the user couldn't be found, and I also handled some error cases better. I even added a little formatting to make it a bit easier to read, I hope. Please grab a new copy!

nice work lom!