As previously announced, we are planning to expand the Community Platform API with feeds for the 3 different types of profiles currently available on the website: characters, guilds, and arena teams. We’d like to share our current plans (may change, not a promise) with all of you as we look forward to providing a robust API that meets the needs of the community.
Each of the feeds below will be accessed by using a realm and name. The feeds will always contain basic information by default, and will have optional fields that can be requested via a parameter – making it possible to retrieve all the data in a single request. A locale parameter will also be available for localized strings. In addition, the feeds will support the Last-Modified HTTP header to help with caching. Just like with the realm status feed, region will be specified using the subdomain (e.g. eu.battle.net/api/.. for European realms), and both json(p) and protocol buffer output will be supported. Character
Guild
Arena Team
Optional fields would be requested using the ‘fields’ parameter, where you specify everything you need using a comma-separated list. e.g: /api/wow/character/realm-name/grotako?fields=items,talents,mounts,titles Sample feeds will soon be provided as we’d also like feedback on the data format. In the meantime, let us know what you think! p.s: We’ll have more details on the Auction House and Arena Ladder APIs to share in the coming weeks. |
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We'll try to get quests and profession recipes in. |
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Haha, thanks! |
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That's correct. Optional fields aren't returned unless requested. |
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This belongs in another thread as it is unrelated to the current topic. |
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Guild API features have been discussed in a few other threads as well. Check out: http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2369882991 |
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This is a very round-about way of getting this information. You should probably just wait for the character API to be available. |
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Building something specific like this isn't on our radar. What we would rather do is make sure the APIs we release allow developers who would be interested in making like this to do so. |
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Actually, we tried to reach out to you guys earlier this week but didn't hear back. I'll give it another go and we can take this conversation out of this thread. |
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Yes. We are currently working through some of the details on the policy of downloading character avatars for use outside of the World of Warcraft community site. |
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When it is ready. |
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We've talked about it, but it something we won't likely do.
We probably won't be doing that either. |