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[Necro] Query API?
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99521
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Post by
kadaan
I would assume no, as then people could write their own wow item database using wowhead's infrastructure. XML item pages are good enough for most purposes to let people embed items in web pages.
The only reason I can think of where this would be useful is for features that wowhead doesn't currently implement (such as lootzor-ish item rankings.)
Post by
pelf
Well, if all you want to do is what you said, you could almost just sit on top of the &xml versions of the item pages using the search string as the item name instead of using the id and just figure out how you want to display it.
However, what kadaan said seems pretty cogent. I wouldn't think they'd expose their database too heavily for both possibly greedy and un-greedy reasons :).
EDIT:
Of course, there are always regular expressions. I shudder to think of that, though.
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99521
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Post by
Malgayne
This is a discussion that we frequently touch on internally, and something we struggle with both on an individual and a corporate level. The trick is to give people tools that they can't find anywhere else, without exposing our system to the point that anybody can cruise in and build their own Wowhead, or build tools that use our database but don't return traffic to our sites. I can't promise you anything at this point, but the question is in our minds and we're always trying to find ways to improve the site.
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99521
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Post by
kennetco
So how would I build this query or display using either the wowhead database or wow api?
List all craftable items
Filter by profession
Filter by recipe only requiring one type of material
Sort by vendor price
Display profession, item name, source of recipe, material needed, number of material needed to craft, vendor price, maximum cost of each material to break even
Wowhead markets it under gold making, raw gold farming, craft to vend... put ads on it ... make money as members make gold without use of AH for other than purchase of mats... title the report as Market points to make raw gold with your crafting professions
Example: LW: Warhide pants, Legion LW Trainer, Stonehide Leather, 15 ea, vendor price, vendor price/15
could further refine list to top ten per crafting profession using cost to craft at break even point as measuring metric... gogogo
Willing to assist, just suck at programming and lack understanding of database accessibility and capabilities as well as programming...(##RESPBREAK##)272##DELIM##Uchur##DELIM##Please either create new thread or send an email to .
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