Originally Posted by Erorus
Over the past 48 hours, the wowarmory.com site has not been cooperative. There are more error pages than usual, so many that my scan completion rate is around 60% when just last week I had a 98% completion rate. I have one idea that may help, but that's only if the problem is where I think it is on Blizzard's end, and it might not be. Still, I'll probably tinker with the crawler a little bit tomorrow to see if it helps.
Then I notice that Blizzard's shiny new battle.net auction interface is up. "Woo, maybe I can use that." Doesn't look likely. It's no longer presented in XML, so I would have to use horrid regular expressions against the html to pull data out. Ugly, but still workable. However, that whole "search beyond 200 results" thing I've been using doesn't appear to work there. Search beyond 200 results and it just returns none. Trying to narrow down by category won't help, since it takes so much longer, and even if you go down to the item level, it's possible that there are more than 200 auctions for a given item.
I went so far as to look at the packets going between the mobile armory app on my android phone and their servers, hoping it's using XML and HTTP somewhere. No such luck; looks like proprietary protocols that would take me a very long time to reverse-engineer.
So, someday soon, wowarmory.com will no longer present its current interface to the auction house, since Blizz wants people to use the shiny new battle.net one they've developed. And I won't be able to pull auction data after that. I've emailed them a few months ago and haven't heard squat. They probably don't know this exists. And I have no good way to get in contact with them.
Um, panic? If you want The Undermine Journal to stick around, you might want to get Blizzard's attention and have them contact me, or start hoping they'll have some bot-friendly interface for some reason.
All this, just in time for me to buy the last accounts I need for full US realm support... fantastic.
Then I notice that Blizzard's shiny new battle.net auction interface is up. "Woo, maybe I can use that." Doesn't look likely. It's no longer presented in XML, so I would have to use horrid regular expressions against the html to pull data out. Ugly, but still workable. However, that whole "search beyond 200 results" thing I've been using doesn't appear to work there. Search beyond 200 results and it just returns none. Trying to narrow down by category won't help, since it takes so much longer, and even if you go down to the item level, it's possible that there are more than 200 auctions for a given item.
I went so far as to look at the packets going between the mobile armory app on my android phone and their servers, hoping it's using XML and HTTP somewhere. No such luck; looks like proprietary protocols that would take me a very long time to reverse-engineer.
So, someday soon, wowarmory.com will no longer present its current interface to the auction house, since Blizz wants people to use the shiny new battle.net one they've developed. And I won't be able to pull auction data after that. I've emailed them a few months ago and haven't heard squat. They probably don't know this exists. And I have no good way to get in contact with them.
Um, panic? If you want The Undermine Journal to stick around, you might want to get Blizzard's attention and have them contact me, or start hoping they'll have some bot-friendly interface for some reason.
All this, just in time for me to buy the last accounts I need for full US realm support... fantastic.
I never had the true benefit being in the UK but its going to be a great shame , that this resource s going away and that blizzard isn't responding .
What did it offer -
A online snatch list that email you when a item appeared onthe AH
Showed the average prices of items a different realms
I cant really give the justice it deserves as i did ge to sue it but drop Blizz a email of pop over to the bliz forums and show your support
Zoxy
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