Hello API Forums!

I’m a new member of the Blizzard Battle.net team and I will be helping Straton out with some API key requests and features. Some people might have already gotten some emails from me and I just wanted to post here and introduce myself!

I play a ton of wow, can’t wait for D3 and have way too much ladder anxiety when trying to play Sc2 (For the swarm).

I love seeing all the apps you guys are making so please keep them coming :)

Hurray!

04/17/2012 08:48 PMPosted by Ulminia

strat's been lazy byte his butt! and welcome!

Straton can be called many things, I promise you lazy is not one of them!

I, for one, welcome our new pug overlord.....

04/17/2012 09:04 PMPosted by Peratryn

strat's been lazy byte his butt! and welcome!

Straton can be called many things, I promise you lazy is not one of them!

True story.

04/17/2012 05:57 PMPosted by Falladaren

I have nothing constructive to say excluding "You have the best avatar out of every blizzard forum poster I've seen"

My wife agrees. Unfortunately Crithto did have this avatar first (I mean... he's in the game after all!) so I'm changing over to this cuddly zergling... He's just as cute right?

Character and Guild feeds are added. For characters you need fields=feed and for guild news you need fields=news

This has been added to the documentation. Make sure to post with any problems or issues!

Sweet! I look forward to grabbing this info.

On first look, I did notice something interesting. It looks like when a feed lists a BOSSKILL criteria, the 'icon' is listed as 'trade_engineering'. And no icons include the extension (like .jpg), not sure if that's intended, I haven't done much with these anywhere yet.

Icons do not have extensions in their name, that is correct and intentional.

The icon for many of the kill statistics are listed as the engineering icon:
http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=4726

These are not the same achievement items:
http://www.wowhead.com/achievement=4532

There is no way to reference these stat achievements via our api, which is why we also include the "name" field as part of boss kills.

I think so. I killed 10-man Maly yesterday and this is what came up:
type: "BOSSKILL",

I wrote about achievement criteria, not bosskill entries.

[{"id":18468,"description":"Madness of Deathwing (10H)"},{"id":18469,"description":"Madness of Deathwing (25H)"}]

Question to Peratryn: are they exposed officially or it's a bug?

I don't fully understand what you are asking. It's not a bug that we're including some criteria information with achievements.

Character and Guild feeds are added. For characters you need fields=feed and for guild news you need fields=news

This has been added to the documentation. Make sure to post with any problems or issues!

This is fantastic - great work!

A couple of things:

* Is it possible to get more of the news feed for guilds? The API seems to return just the first page but I noticed on the guild's Battle.net page that you can click on "load more" and get a lot more.

* The docs still refer to "member list" info under the Guild "news" section:

"news
When the members list is requested, a list of character objects is returned. Each object in the returned members list contains a character block as well as a rank field."

Polar@GuildOx.com

Fixed the news description (thanks), and adding the other point to the known issues list.