Show HN: Guild Wars 2 Armory Made with React and Node

gw2armory.com

28 points·madou··7 comments

Cool man. GW2 was a source of ideas for me for like 3 years. Every time I went to implement something though I very quickly ran into API limitations. At the time -- maybe it's changed -- they basically just expose the big .dat file that makes up the majority of the client size. So however that data is stored on disk is how it's exposed.

Anyhoo, this looks cool and is pretty snappy!

Thanks man! The api's are better now but you're not wrong, they're limited by what is on the client.

Luckily their github and gitter is quite active: https://github.com/arenanet/api-cdi. And they're open to requests.

If anyone is interested I'll be live coding tonight around 7pm AEST.

https://www.twitch.tv/itsmadou

Wow has an armory, why not Guild Wars 2?

Website:

https://gw2armory.com

Repos:

https://github.com/madou/armory-react

https://github.com/madou/armory-back

Is ANet making this data publicly available? Is it per-account? I'm just curious, as last i played there was no realistic way to implement this sort of feature.

It was heavily desired though, so i'm sure the community will love it. Grats!

https://wiki.guildwars2.com/wiki/API:API_key

Yeah the data is available - to a degree. It's opt in unfortunately so a user has to sign up with their api keys to allow the armory access to their data.

Here's hoping some devs playing gw2 will be interested in contributing to the armory !

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