Basic retail WoW items/AH questions

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I’m working on some code to “do some AH stuff.” For now I don’t have a particular goal in mind, maybe start with price and availability tracking, also good practice for SQLite and PostgreSQL etc.

I have some very basic questions. Maybe if I get some answers there will be less basic follow-ups.

It’s not difficult to get a basic catalog of items with the search API. In order to get a catalog with all the details, do I need to hit the item API 152,428 times? That’s fine I guess, it’ll just take a while, hope throttling isn’t an issue.

Is there any documentation as to what the item and AH data actually is? That is, description of the potential keys and their values? I understand that Blizzard is unlikely to publish or maintain this, but is there something current and maintained by someone out there?

ETA: For example, Our vision is to help you achieve yours - #7 by Schiller-1822

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Yes.

It is. You can only do 36k requests/hour at 10req/s rate (with some room for short bursts).

No, not for item modifiers, you have to find an alternate source.

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Have the Wowhead developers or similar entities published any kind of reference as to the interpretation of data returned by the API? (Are they NDA-ed with Blizzard?) Or do they exclusively use data mining?

I’d have to parallelize to get to just 10/s but … I’ll surely do that soon.

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Probably just data mining. There are some resources around, I would advise joining the discord server for more information. I don’ t really use that portion of the API so I can’ t help much here.

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