Guild Raid ID Query Addon (Knoppix)
Anonymous — Thu, 08/06/2009 - 22:44
Here is the first revision on the addon that I wrote, it is very very beta but it does work. I plan on updating it when I can and making it alot better. This is a addon that works based off of everyone in guild having it, so the more people with it the more names that will show up. Sometimes it does take a little while for it to pickup other users lockouts but going and viewing you raid ID's usuall fixes that. The code is fugly atm but it is pretty much hacked together.
the command line functions are:
/grs saved (gets the users and what instances they are saved to)
/grs notsaved (takes a little while to run but gets the users that are not locked to the instances you are locked to or that don't have the mod installed)
http://fillycom.net/GuildRaidIdQuery.zip
Let me know what you think.
Updated little easier on the
Knoppix (not verified) — Sun, 08/09/2009 - 20:52Updated little easier on the eyes and shows individuals Raid ID's, will add the coloring of the raid ID's in the next release.
http://fillycom.net/GuildRaidIdQuery.zip
Nice work! I've been working
carno — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 13:30Nice work! I've been working on a similar addon with cacheing so offline player data is available. This was as a result of a conversation w/G on the way to the beach. I've only made any progress with figuring out which events to bind to so I'm not spamming the addon channel but still keeping things fairly real-time.
I'm building the gossip cacheing because if I can get it to work with instances I can get it to work for crafting. One of the lamest things about craft list is it spams whisper and guild chat, so everyone uninstalls it.
Perhaps another related add-on...
Vitriola — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 12:00I know that webarmory gets info about gear when you log off. I also know that this information is used by other websites. I am wondering if we could make something that will poll guildies as they log to show just which instances are locked. That would be a cool thing to add to the website.
It could easily be added to
Knoppix (not verified) — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 12:16It could easily be added to this one, but its not as dynamic. You would have to have a wow side and a client that dynamically reads the dump database that the addon outputs and push that to our site. I think this is how something like WorldOfLogs works am I right? I have never messed with this sutff but it is my best guess on implementing it, not hard to do just time consuming.
Armory is just one of Blizzards babies so they have their database to pull from most likely, other sites get this via a webservice call I am sure.
Yea a java program does the
saedo — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 12:16Yea a java program does the parsing and uploading to the website.
I figured as much, that
Knoppix (not verified) — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 12:18I figured as much, that really is the only way.
Could there be another way?
Vitriola — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 12:44I know that http://www.wow-heroes.com/ gets gear. What I do not know is whether they do it themselves or just grab from wow-armory and parse it down for themselves. Any ideas?
They are most likely calling
Knoppix (not verified) — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 12:57They are most likely calling a web service or a web method or a POST via AJAX or w/e getting the data back as XML and parsing it into what they want to see using their own CSS to make it look purdy. Basically what Saedo said.
From wowarmory. Wowarmory
saedo — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 12:50From wowarmory. Wowarmory is actually all in XML. They just css/javascript it to make it look pretty. So it's pretty easy for websites to query their data and transform it into another look for themselves.
Well done!
Vitriola — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 11:56I have not had a chance to run it and I do not know LUA or wow function calls well enough yet to get more than a general notion of how things work but I am impressed that you got it working. Very well done indeed!
I can pretty much program in
Knoppix (not verified) — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 12:05I can pretty much program in any language (just not super old ones, I dont care to learn outdated languages), I just have my preferences. LUA is not very structured as a language, pretty glorified scripting language in my honest opinion, but it has its uses and can be powerful.
I'll try it out. Is that
Dangly — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 10:56I'll try it out. Is that your personal website? If so, do you do your own hosting? The reason I ask is that it seems like it's pretty quick navigating around. However, it might be because it's just a stubbed out website. Another reason for my inquiry is that I'm always on the lookout for lightning fast hosting. Let me know man.
I use Bluehost.
Prime8 — Tue, 08/11/2009 - 09:40I use Bluehost.
Yes it is my personal very
Knoppix (not verified) — Fri, 08/07/2009 - 11:36Yes it is my personal very unfinished website, which the design I grew tired of. I host it out of my home on my personal server with Windows Server 2008, SQL Server 2008 and IIS 7, the site is built on ASP.NET 3.5. I am in the process of redesigning it as well as adding a personal blog and many other things I have been meaning to do.
NOTE: My ISP is Comcast and they basically don't have a limit on my speed atm, and they just laid fiber. I almost have a dedicated line from them atm because I live in a neighborhood of old rich people that don't know wtf the internet is and if they do they don't use it alot.
EDIT: If you happen to hit login and get a invalid SSL cert because you are using IE, it is because I don't feel like buying an SSL cert at so I am using a free one. Microsoft is the only browser than does not yet trust them but ALL the other browsers do go figure. I will badmouth Microsoft this once for being dumb and not recognizing the free SSL cert.