[API Suggestion] Items, Recipes, and Crafting

#1 - May 21, 2013, 12:59 a.m.

Let’s see, I’ve seen the following requests:

Items:
- Have an index to which recipes they are created from and/or used in.
- If available from vendor, price in copper/karma for item.

Recipes:
- Clearly state the Crafting Discipline. In particular, bags are hard to “guess” who makes them.
- Include the ‘set’ Mystic Forge recipes.
- Source of Recipe: Discoverable, or bought?

I’ll add in:
- For food items, spell out what the buffs they give, like weapons do.
- Similar for runes, and any other types that don’t specify them.

Stefan Larimore

#58 - Sept. 17, 2013, 2:25 p.m.

Hi Lazarus, good suggestions.

I am curious about your ideas for #1. At the time we roll out the OAuth-based APIs or soon after there will probably be an opportunity to also revisit the existing un-auth APIs. Feel free to PM me your ideas or post on the forum itself.

Regarding your idea #2, we have talked about doing this at some point. We wanted to get the fully factored information out there first, and then consider ways to fetch things in bulk later.

For your #3 changedSince, tracking new items or recipes etc is easy – but probably of marginal value since you guys can already do that yourself. Implementing a changedSince for existing items is actually hard given where the API sits relative to the other components. It is something I will think about though.

Thanks!