Guild Wars 2

I’m a developer by nature. While I doubt I’d churn out anything for public consumption, I’m looking for some things on the API side, which I’m positive others will hook onto, as GW2Spidy has managed with existing unofficial hooks.

1) Create general APIs for accessing pricing data and account specific trading post status (goods for sale, goods on order, goods waiting for pickup, goods bought, and goods sold).
1b) The account specific information should be secured by something other than account name & password – This would open up the APIs to use by 3rd party packages to present details to users.
2) In the json reply from the trading post, indicate bound status. Pretty Please With Sugar on Top?
3) A suggestion only, but: At no time should the manipulation of anything on the accounts or trading posts be permitted by the API – The trading post is to be experienced, not botted. With APIs that allow buying and selling of goods, setting up bots to do so becomes trivial, and may well kill some of the experience for players trying to do so in-game. This also indirectly ties back to 1b above – insecure access to the data should not permit manipulation that requires secure access.

Example use case:
I have for sale 31 pages of goods, and another 9 pages of goods on order (not rows, pages).
I would like to be able to summarize what I’m buying and selling, so I adjust buy prices and pre-order extra materials to replace goods sold. Currently, compiling such information needs to be done by hand and is… difficult. Mostly I just craft tons and throw it at the wall, knowing that most of it will sell. Someday, if not today. I can write programs to accomplish the task of compiling the detail, but I lack an easy way to get the data to said programs.

Example use case:
I have 1181 pages in the ’Item’s I’ve sold’ transactions and another 7154 pages in the ’Item’s I’ve Bought’. Not rows. Pages (add a 0 to each if you want a rows count). Trying to summarize the detail by hand is impossible, and I find it often impossible to determine what has sold recently, or judge actual quantities of sales, other than the ever-so-unhelpfull metric of gold. ‘Yay, another 30 gold of stuff sold today. Vague idea of what most of the stuff was so I can restock, but yay.’
If I can grab the total goods sold detail, I can produce creative ‘sets of armor supplied’ and ‘customers served’ figures for bragging rights, as well as watch changes in totals of items to find what’s really been selling.

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