Getting started with the WoW API

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).

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.