Is it ok to use API in addons? And can the addon be exclusive for you and your girl? We want to keep track of guildies mythic keystones and such things in game. Also LUA.
The API we discuss in this forum is a web API, which means you can’t access that from Lua code.
As far as I know the Wow terms of service requires you to make any addon public. Not sure if and how they can enforce this tho.
There are already plenty of addons for this, but they will only work if everyone use them. You can’t collect data from someone else’s inventory (the keystone item) through any API (Web or Lua/XML).
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I been trying to register to get access to the API to make a visually impaired addon but everytime i do this I either get a 504 Gateway error or something went wrong message. I been attempting this for a month. I contacted support and they did not help. So I am wondering if anyone here can help?
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Unfortunately, no.
We have been receiving very scarce support for the API. It really feels it is not a priority and possibly on its way to become discontinued.
Not sure what you want from the API, but it is very likely you can get more data from the game client itself since you are creating an addon.
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Where would you recommend stating a ‘use case’ for a request for certain API data?
I know you just said ^^ that you feel support is scarce and maybe becoming discontinued. However, after you said that, blizz did do a big dump of housing API (which they then disabled a lot of and it hasn’t returned yet I believe? due to security issues). One of the pieces of API data I would really like is housing related. So there might be a chance, I don’t know.
Should I post in this thread? Start one of my own? Is there a thread I haven’t seen I should use?
Thank you for your time.
There are some other threads discussing the housing API specifically, there is also the API bug reporting forum.
The main problem is still the lack of clear communication from Blizzard side. We still have no idea if the API is broken, discontinued or in maintenance mode.
Honestly I still don’t think we can expect receiving clear responses over the API no matter where we post our concerns.
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