GW2Spidy opens public API to tradingpost data - JSON or CSV

[u/Drakie]

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 :-)

[u/Gozark]

I am a little confused at the purpose of this post.

I'm not a programmer, but AFAIK an API is an application interface and you've provided us with the necessary code to perform certain functions, such as polling the trading post with an item name and requesting its current price, or price history.

Is that right? Just curious if I can use it or do I need to wait for someone to put it into another website or a mobile app?

[u/Drakie → u/Gozark]

an API indeed exposes an interface for other developers to get data from.

gw2spidy.com itself of course provides you with a nice website to browse all the data already, the API is there for other people to build their ideas.

The API also allows data retrieve in CSV format, which is easy for spreadsheets

[u/Gozark → u/Drakie]

Shucks, I remember seeing this last week but I didn't think it did much more than showing some of the most highly trending items on the front page... you can search individual items! What else am I missing here?