Wowhead API etc...

Publicado por Jakobud

So I'm toying with a website idea that has something to do with gear and items you receive from raid bosses or quests in WoW.

I want users to be able to choose pieces of gear that any particular raid boss drops. However, I don't want to have to recreate an entire database of gear and raid bosses and who drops what and what the drop rates are etc... that's just a waste of time since Wowhead is the best source for those things anyways.

So I'm wondering if there is someway to have Wowhead power this? Wowhead (imo) is pretty much the definitive source of data mining for WoW. If you want to know exactly what each raid boss drops, Wowhead is the best source. Period. Is there any way for me to use Wowhead's databases to power this thru any type of API? I don't want to actually store information on my server. I want all items to link to Wowhead's pages. I just need a way to access the proper information on my site using Wowhead.

I know that Wowhead doesn't want to be too open with their database and any APIs b/c then websites will simply steal their database information. I completely understand that. But is there anyway for external sites to be able to query information using Wowhead?

For example, lets say I wanted to determine a list of all epic items that Lady Vashj drops. I pretty much just want a list of wowhead.com item links. Is there any way to accomplish something like this?

Publicado por Malgayne

The only thing we have of this type right now are our XML feeds, which wouldn't necessarily be able to provide the kind of input you're talking about. We have plans to expand those feeds, but there are some other things we want to get done first.

Publicado por Jakobud

Hmmm those feeds might be useful. I will have to recreate a database of raid bosses and associated loot, but at least the actual item information can come from these feeds.

Suggestions:

I see the XML feeds only apply toward items. I think it would be extremely helpful if you made XML feeds for many more types of objects. Like NPCs for example, it would be nice to have an XML feed about what items they drop and current drop rates according to your database.

Might be good to have quest XML feeds also? Not sure... Spells perhaps would be nice. It would basically just contain the description of the spell, the range requirements, etc... everything that would be in its tooltip.

Publicado por Malgayne

Like I said, we have expansion plans--but they're a little ways down on our list of priorities for now. :)

Publicado por klokkie

This seems a bit of an old post, has there been any upgrades to the XML feeds? or is there an "unofficial" API?

I would be more then happy to assist ?

Thanks,

Publicado por Malgayne

Unfortunately no—every time we knock our to do list down that far, Blizzard throws another curveball at us!

Publicado por klokkie

Thats a shame.
Is there any other form of unformatted data that would allow for a relational search in the form of:
zone / instance -> npc -> item.

All I am after is a list of names and links to wowhead.

Any help would be great.

Thanks.

Publicado por Erorus

WoWArmory.com has a decent search that returns XML results.

edit For the original example, here's all the epic items that Vashj drops.

Wowhead API etc...

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