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Post by
dracula
When Blizzard published their auction house 'API', I decided to make something around it.
http://www.wowtools.info/auctions/
My intention is to gather/provide some useful statistics from it (average prices, watch lists, rss feeds, low price alerts), but I'm low on disk space at my current hosting provider, so it will have to wait a bit.
Current features include:
Filter by fields: item name, item id, item quality,
owner's name
, price range, category + subcategory
Sort by fields: item name, owner's name, bid price, buyout price, time remaining
Group by fields: item name, item quality, owner's name, category, time remaining
Stores your last used realm and faction in a cookie, so it's filled in automatically when you visit the page
Clean gold price (who cares about the few silver and copper)
Works in IE7-9, Opera, Firefox, Chrome
This gives you some useful combinations, for example:
Rare jewelcrafting designs
Note that updating the local cache takes a bit of time, so the first query on your realm might take a few seconds longer than normal. It only fetches new data from blizzard's server when necessary, so you can safely keep the
"Update cache"
checkbox enabled.
It could probably use some fancier styling and graphics, but hey, I'm not an artist ;-)
Feel free to give it a try and let me know how else it can be improved.
Post by
Ashelia
I'm going to say it before other people ask: yes, he can post this. It looks awesome and he definitely put a lot of hard work into it ;)
Post by
lokithor
Holy crap this things pretty cool man. +1 interwebs :)
Post by
Luciferul
Awesome work!
Post by
hatman555
Amazing
Cheers,
Hat
Post by
Quesac
Just took it for a test drive. You sir are my internet hero!
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Post by
Nipah
Nicely done...
One suggestion is perhaps change the "realm" selection to a drop down, to help alleviate stress in people who can't spell.
Also, as was suggested by ALCH3MIST, maybe center align it horizontally to work a bit better on higher resolutions (or at least it doesn't center in Chrome @ 1920x1080).
Other than those two small tweaks,
it's fantastic
(hell, its fantastic without those changes... I just can't sit idly by without adding my 2c).
Post by
xaratherus
Very nice! Out of curiosity, how long did it take you to get this built?
Post by
Interest
This is amazing. Now I can own at the regional market.
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Post by
Malkil
Great job! I like what you've done.
Some possible additions would be:
Auction Query -
Class Restriction
Qualifiers for Item Quality (e.g. "is equal to", "is greater than")
Results -
Item Level
Displaying Time Left with numerical values (e.g. "< 48 Hours" instead of "Very long")
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Post by
Kanonji
A choice of how many results per page are shown. Either a dropdown box, or to choose the number yourself.
It already seems to work from changing the address.
Definitely liking this set even more then Undermine Journal more atm.
Post by
dracula
Thanks for all the useful and positive feedback!
I think these enhancements have my priority for the near future:
Prices per item
Item-level in results (and filter)
Realm selection dropdown
Layout tweaks - widescreen friendly
@eidyia
I think that is what I meant with "watch list". The problem is that the system is currently 'request-driven', meaning it's inactive when noone is using the page. For features like statistics, personal watch lists and alerts, it will have to periodically update and process all the auctions by itself. My intention is to add this at a later point.
@Malkil, @Noam
Class restriction and required level are currently not possible. Keep in mind that the auction data provided by Blizzard
only
contains the 'ID' of an item. I use a very compact local
item-cache
to lookup any related item-data for filtering and display purpose. I want to keep this cache as small as possible for performance reasons, so it only contains the (most) relevant fields.
@xaratherus
The auction API was introduced
august 1st
, so it's been about a month in between work and raids (and food and bed and...).
@Kanonji
For page size, check under "Display Options". And I hadn't seen that UJ site before, interesting....
Post by
lonewarrior
Kudos!
What this game needs more of. Players who make a positive impact.
Post by
Lenience
O_O;
That's awesome!
/brofist
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