Support for searches

#1 - July 8, 2011, 2:07 p.m.
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The old wowarmory supported search and filtering results. Such as finding a toon by name on a server, or items with better stats.

The new API seems to only support direct lookups. You need to know exactly what you want to get a result.

Is there any plan for adding search, since old wowarmory is going away soon(ish)?
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#8 - July 12, 2011, 7:03 p.m.
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The old API-based searches were used by some sites for ripping character/guild data using a ping-pong, almost multiple recursion-ish algorithm, with the end result of creating large listings of arbitrary characters/guilds across all servers in a region.

The new system seems to provide no means to achieve the same end result (I suspect by design).


True story.
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#8 - July 12, 2011, 7:03 p.m.
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The old API-based searches were used by some sites for ripping character/guild data using a ping-pong, almost multiple recursion-ish algorithm, with the end result of creating large listings of arbitrary characters/guilds across all servers in a region.

The new system seems to provide no means to achieve the same end result (I suspect by design).


True story.