Guild Wars 2

Not sure where to post this, but hopefully this is it.

There are several fan sites up (spidy is a key example) where these sites pull in-game Trade Price information and update it daily. I would like to work with this data to make some useful tools for the community, but I’m confused as to where the data is pulled from, or if it’s somehow manually updated by the site hosts.

Several other game companies have provided URL links to item data via market prices shown on their own site, or even tools for fan-sites including links to frequently-updated text sheets of this information. Is anything like this available with Anet and Guild Wars 2?

One site says there is a website avaialble with this information, but View Source isn’t doing much to help. Any ideas?

Spidy is actually an open source project and there is lots of information on Github about how it works. I would recommend getting involved there if you want to help out – they’ve laid a lot of groundwork and welcome contributions.

Thanks for the link, I’ll take a look

I couldn’t figure it out. The site https://tradingpost-live.ncplatform.net/ gives me an Invalid Authetication error. I popped an Email off to the main owner of that project, but if anyone has any feedback in the mean time, please keep me informed. There’s no real telling when I’ll receive a reply.

My understanding is you need to be logged into your account to see it, but I’m unsure how to pass the credentials from the browser.

Yeah, I’m at a loss. I’ve tried a bit of basic URL manipulation, but to no avail.

I read the readme file on github (the most logical thing to do?):

Config / Env
Think of a name that represents your machine / evn, eg ruben-vm1 or gw2spidy-prod-vps2.
Copy the config/cnf/example-custom-cnf.json to config/cnf/<your-chosen-name>.json an edit it to set the values for auth_email and auth_password.

Copy config/cnf/example-env to config/cnf/env and edit it, it contains a line for each config file it should load from config/cnf/<name>.json
Replace the first line (ruben-vm1) with the name you had previously chosen, leave the dev and default, those are other config files it should load too (or change dev to prod if you don’t want debug mode.

The config files you specify config/cnf/env will be loaded (in reverse order), overwriting the previous ones. For overloading other config values (like database login etc.), check config/cnf/default.json for all options which you could also se in your custom config file.

The config/cnf/env and any config/cnf/*.json other then default.json, dev.json and prod.json are on .gitignore so they won’t be versioned controlled

There is a problem with that link.
What I do is go to ‘http://www.guildwars2guru.com/topic/45667-guildwars2spidy-graphs-of-the-trade-market/#entry1654046’ then select the link to the TP each time I want in.

Hope it helps.