An add-on that officers with bank alts can scan the bank toons with and either make that inventory available to others with the add-on or even export it for website upload would be amazing! We are going to distribute bank alts across 3 people for insurance and would be great to be able to list the contents so things actually get used.
Literally not possible without having a program that controls your character for you, which would be detected by anti-cheat and you would be banned.
Im sure some kind of call out sheet could be made. Have the addon scan and list the items upon viewing the bank, store them in a protected file folder that is linked through the addon. Anyone with the addon can enter a join list name and password to view said items. Have it auto scan and store items anytime something is moved or changed though to update thoroughly.
I don’t know how to code it but for anyone who wants to try it…
Altoholic worked in a manner that could facilitate this. All guild members will need the addon active of course. Altoholic kept an inventory of alts and you could add a request functionality.
The downside would be that anyone with the bank alts, if they were offline, you couldn’t guarantee quantities.
and that’s fine. Having a fairly accurate idea of what was there would be great
You might also want to post on some of the add-on oriented sites. Inventorian classic is coupled with Bagbrother which stores/caches the inventory of each of your characters. I think the most practical extension from a development standpoint is giving the ability to manually export/import the data. It would be better than nothing. I can’t recall any add-ons that send/receive data outside of calls to the WoW API and your local machine, so manual transfers might be the only option. Not to mention, way more secure. 
What? How do you figure?
Maybe I read this wrong, but I was under the impression that he wanted this addon to actually ‘send’ the inventory manually or something. Unless I read that wrong and he just wants it to display the items and thats all.
Totally possible automatically.
Here’s roughly how I would do it -
- Make a program or even just a powershell script that parses the addon’s saved variables file to local dropbox storage
- Dropbox syncs that online
- Have the website look for changes in that file then parse it’s output
- The website now has data to display prettily.
All of this outside game of course.
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The mind of a developer! This sounds like a fun way for me to learn. I’ll have to try to set this up, or a variation, in a couple of weeks. Just for testing though among my friends though. I value my privacy. I don’t want anyone seeing my full inventories on a regular basis.
If your looking for an already developed addon to examine the saved variables file of BankItems addon. That looks to have an SV file that’s fairly easy to parse , just gotta figure out which part of it is the guild bank section.
It’s been years since I had to do it but I recall having to do this for my old guild website so it’s definitely possible. Unfortunately that was 6 years ago so the guild hosting site it was on is long gone. If you get stuck you could try already built solutions
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I can’t remember if private chat channels have their text saved but, if it is, the addon could potentially function through a private channel call, similar to how greenwall does? If the channels save information then it could be possible to update it in game with special text messages the addon communicates in game through the channel.
I’m not sure if those chat channels work that way however.
we prefer the term code guru.
no, just scan the contents and dump it to a csv