Downloading filtered item data for item lists

Post by Emmerald

Hi,

I've been maintaining items lists for Feral Druids and I've downloaded filtered data from Thottbot until recently, when they "broke" their site (for my usage) by making improvements in the UI. Since they are apparently not willing to (or have time) to help me out, I'm looking for other options. I would love to use data from this site, but it suffers from the same problems at Thott now. If I make a filtered query for say, leather armor usable by Druids, I only get the 200 first items, and no indication or option to download the next 200 and so on.

Is there a possibility of adding an option that would allow full retrieval? Or adding an indication that I could automatically parse and continue loading new pages until all items have been retrieved? In return, I will be using item links to Wowhead in the lists for additional info, thus providing more traffic to your site.

Yours Sincerely, Emmerald

Edit: Getting fresh data, given all the new items from Zul'Aman and other additions, would be very important for the lists, that have been used a lot by Druids worldwide. :)

Post by mindphlux

Help this man, his druid tanking gear list is invaluable!

Post by Adys

Adding "pages" is something we had in mind for a while. We'll see how that sorts out once we're done with "some mystery features". :)

Post by Emmerald

Thanks for the response,

It would be great if you really could support my list. I know a lot of people use the list and are really really anxious to get the latest ratings (also for Cats, thanks to the change in HotW).

Post by Adys

I'll contact you shortly by email and we'll see what we can do :)

Post by Arador

Help this man, his druid tanking gear list is invaluable!

Second this. His site is an amazing reference.

Post by Angelcrusher

Emmerald,

Excuse me for dusting off a thread that's been hibernating as long as a human's gestation period.

Firstly, please let me / "the community" know how this issue was resolved. It would be helpful for other developers out there.

Secondly, and for future queries, you might consider creating subsets (i.e. Leather Helms {All} = Leather Helms {up to iLevel 100} + Leather Helms {iLevel 101 and up}). Introducing artificial qualifiers to bisect your data set would allow you to bypass a query's limited result set while retaining all the original data.

Cheers mate,
Angelcrusher

Post by Malgayne

Emmerald spoke to us personally and we came to an agreement. Anyone looking to do something similar would have to do the same. :)

Downloading filtered item data for item lists

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