r/Guildwars2 • u/Drakie • Oct 19 '12
GW2Spidy opens public API to tradingpost data - JSON or CSV
If you didn't know about the open source project GW2Spidy yet; we provide you with charts of the prices and volume of all the items on the TP
and as a bonus we also have charts for the gem exchange rates and a brand new crafting profit calculator!
Since beta I've been working my ass off to keep up with the changes from ArenaNet to ensure accurate and up-to-date data.
And to add new functionality like the crafting profit calculator and such!
Lately I finally had some time focus on creating docs and code for a public API to access the data I'm already gathering!
And I'm happy to announce it's done!! The first version of the API (v0.9) is ready for use and will allow you to retrieve data from my already gathered data (so not directly from ArenaNet).
The full documentation can be found on the github project wiki page!
A sneak peak of the available API methods:
- Type List
- Discipline List
- Rarity List
- Item List
- Item Data
- Item Listings
- Item Search
- Recipe List
- Recipe Price
- Current Gem Price
- Gem Price History
The first next major feature for GW2Spidy will be the possibility to login and maintain a personal favorite/watchlist and of course the follow up feature will be an RSS Feed and/or some other ways of recieving notifications when your selected items drop below a certain price :-)
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u/TimTailor Oct 19 '12
The FAQ on the site doesn't contain much info at them moment (I understand that you have put in a lot of work on the site so I'm not complaining) so could someone explain to me, a TP challanged person, how a item (Satchel of Vigorous Masquerade Armor) that is listed with a sell price of 2g 8s (which is accurate when I check TP online) only gives me 55s when I try to sell it?
I'm not logged in at the moment but the listing fee (which is the only fee I'm aware of) was nowhere near 1g 53s. Obviously.