Guild Wars 2

Does anybody have any clue on how to access the Trading Post prices from outside of the game? I’ve seen a few websites that have meticulous coverage of prices down to every few minutes, and obviously they are not recording them themselves (they have 1 week+ history).

If not, will this be made available in the future? I know many MMOs allow price and market history being viewed on their website in some form or another.

I mean, obviously the Trading Post is a website being loaded inside of the game, but is that site publicly available for access?

Thanks in advance!

I would like to know as I’m recording the prices myself everyday.

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Seriously though, how do some people get access to it, and others don’t? There’s a few websites on the internet that show very nearly live prices on all items. How do they manage to do this?

It can be done. But a recent change by ANet(the fact that you can’t search for an empty string anymore) kind of screwed a lot of these sites over. For gw2spidy.com the source is right here: https://github.com/rubensayshi/gw2spidy.

I really hope ArenaNet will realize what programmers creating tools like gw2spidy.com and gw2tp.com can mean for them and open up the API to make it more accessible. I was really motivated, almost done with the first version of my trading post site, and then they made a lot of changes to the API all of the sudden, kind of demotivated me.

You can access the trading post out of game using the site https://tradingpost-live.ncplatform.net/authenticate, which is what’s used in-game and why it looks wrong.

Also, you can still search for empty strings, you just can’t search for completely empty strings that query the entire database. The change should have had no effect on those wanting to pull data, just for those that needlessly clicked searched.

IIRC, they were not only going to make a website for live trading post prices, but we were going to be able to manage our trades on the website too.

Thanks guys! I’ll definitely be checking out that GitHub code and seeing how they do theirs.

Thanks healix for the link to the trading post! Do you know if that site is going to stay up, or will it be pulled due to a large number of people accessing it?

Yeah, I heard they were going to make the TP available outside the game for managing trades and the like, but I haven’t heard any news recently. Hopefully somebody from ANet will be able to inform us!