There's definitely something weird going on with the AH data exports frequency.. here's Emerald Dream as an example:
Was: 60 minutes between updates, +/- 5 seconds.
Nov 1, 20:00 UTC: changed to 46 minutes per update +/- 3 seconds.
Nov 5, 23:30 UTC: changed to 35 minutes per update, +/- 3 seconds.
Nov 7, 01:38 UTC: changed to 111 minutes per update, +/- 0 seconds.
It has been updated once every 111 minutes since then.
I see similar patterns on most, if not all, other US realms. What's up? While the more frequent updates were nice, I think going back to once every 60 minutes would be satisfactory.
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Time as of this post: 1346379598
wget -O - --quiet http://us.battle.net/api/wow/auction/data/borean-tundra Borean Tundra US hasn't been updated since about mid-day yesterday. I think that's the only realm (US and EU) that isn't updating. Please get it going again. :) Thanks. :) |
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This bug is observed on the realm status feed and the character feed, so it probably affects all feeds.
Load this url: http://us.battle.net/api/wow/realm/status?jsonp=abc Observed: ({"realms":[{"type":"pvp","population":. ... }]}); Expected: abc({"realms":[{"type":"pvp","population":. ... }]}); Since the EU site didn't get converted to 5.0.4 yet, it still works: http://eu.battle.net/api/wow/realm/status?jsonp=abc abc({"realms":[{"type":"pvp","population": ... }]}); |
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I know you're busy with D3 and MoP, but if you need a break, consider this idea. I'd like to pull trade chat logs via the web API.
For The Undermine Journal, it would be cool to show lines from trade chat where items are mentioned, to see if people WTB or WTS things outside of the auction house. Trade chat is the public global chat channel for every realm anyway, so there are a lot of other neat chat stats one could pull from there. I think an hourly pull, much like the current AH setup, would be great, but even a once daily pull would be useful. The sender's name and full message (including item links), along with a timestamp is all that would be necessary. It's the same stuff you could pull from Logs\WoWChatLog.txt, except instead of me having to have a character sitting logged in on every realm, I could instead just query the API. I know this suggestion has a snowball's chance in Firelands, but it's worth a shot. Thanks. |
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Realm Pop shows you population statistics on the players' characters in World of Warcraft.
You can find out the most popular races and classes on your realm, or across all realms, or across a subset of realms that you choose (for example, PvP realms, or Oceanic realms). On realm pages, with each subset you choose, you will also get a partial list of characters so you can look them up on the Armory. Find it here: http://wow.realmpop.com/ Do we have a thread here that lists API apps? I'm curious to find apps I've missed. There's obviously a bunch of us here, but I don't hear much about the apps that get produced. |
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I put together a script that uses the WoW Community Platform APIs to find and post images of characters with transmogrified items. You can see the resulting tumblr blog here:
http://transmogfashion.tumblr.com/ There's no source code available, since the world doesn't need multiple copies of this running, and my script wasn't written for style. :) But I present this to the forum just as an example idea, to get you thinking of other things you can develop using the WoW Community Platform APIs. Here's a step-by-step of what my script does. 1) Use the realm status API to get the list of realms, and pick one realm at random. 2) Use the auction house API to pull down the chosen realm's auctions, and pick a seller at random. 3) Use the character API to find the guild that seller belongs to. (If the seller has no guild, pick another seller.) 4) Use the guild API to get the roster of that guild, and pick a level 85 member at random. 5) Use the character API to get the list of equipped items and appearance options for the chosen guild member. If the member doesn't have at least 3 transmogged and visible slots, choose another member and repeat, looking at up to 15 characters in a guild. 6) If we still haven't found a member with 3 transmogged slots, pick another seller from the AH pull and go back to step 3. 7) Now that we have a character with a bunch of transmogged slots, use the item API to get the item names of the transmog appearance sources. Build a list of visible items, with item names, IDs, quality levels, and slot names. 8) Use the character API to find the character's selected title, gender, race, class, and thumbnail URL. Replace the "thumbnail" text with "profilemain" to build the URL for the full image from the Armory. 9) Use the tumblr API to post this data with appropriate tags to the tumblr blog. I put this script on a cron job, and it'll run once every 4 hours. The purpose is to see how people are transmogging their items, and through the use of tags, we can select examples by race or class or transmog slot. |
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I know that Transmogrification was just announced, and 4.3 isn't live yet, and the specs for it might not even be solid in-game yet.
However, I'd just like to register my interest in having the transmogrified-from item id on items that were changed. One could have a site that, for example, describes the latest in death knight fashion, by polling and tallying what sword is the popular weapon skin this month. Or maybe you've seen a character in-game, and want to look up all the items that she's wearing, and the source for their appearance. Thanks. P.S. Thanks for recently allowing expired subs to post in this forum. |
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According to Bashiok, WoWArmory.com will be "decommissioned" on August 2, or just under 2 weeks from today:
http://us.battle.net/wow/en/forum/topic/2872777256 My concern, naturally, is about the Auction House XML data I currently get from WoWArmory.com, and how the new Battle.net AH API hasn't yet been released or even discussed. I'm willing to be patient, but if WoWArmory.com goes down and I can't get AH results, I'll once again be a sad puppy. Will the WoWArmory.com AH results stick around after August 2? Will the Battle.net AH API be available in some form by then? Thanks. |
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Starter/trial accounts no longer expire.
Starter accounts can search the new (battle.net) Armory's Auction House. Starter accounts cannot search the old (wowarmory.com) Armory's Auction House. One receives the error: code="10007" message="This account does not have any characters who are eligible to use the Auction House." Any chance you could enable wowarmory.com AH searches for starter accounts? It would save me $150/month. If you don't want to touch wowarmory.com, me and my wallet will weep quietly. Thank you kindly. :) |