GoblinStockAlerts 💰🚀

GoblinStockAlerts (GSA) is a self-hosted project for monitoring the World of Warcraft Auction House API.

For the most hardcore, there is an additional (and optional) 'Sniper' addon component that will give you the ability to rapidly purchase the discovered items in-game.

The quality of this logo probably says a lot.

Changelog

All notable changes can be reviewed here.

Why?

Closed-source, private tools being used in a video game is anti-competitive. The skill should be in your decisions analyzing what is, and isn't a deal, not down to the tool you use. Some tools used by the Goblin community are giving a significant competitive edge to people and GSA aims to help level the playing field. It doesn't solve it by any means, but I hope it helps. Blizzard needs to intervene, but until they do, enjoy API sniping.

Additionally, GSA is aimed at bridging a gap between those who use existing services (such as TradeSkillMaster or The Undermine Journal) and those using private closed-source applications written by various Auction House Goblins 💰.

This does not mean that absolutely no technical ability is needed, an amount of technical aptitude is required to set GSA up.

Cost

GSA auction scanner and addon will always be open source. Because it's self-hosted, there are no cloud costs - Therefore it's free, now, and forever. Enjoy.

Demo

Images say a thousand words, this is an example run of the main scanner component.

Setup

• Documentation (Python Scanner) here.
• Documentation (Configurations) here.
• Documentation (Sniper Addon) here.

Issues

Lastly, GSA is written by people who are not Auction House Goblins 💰, TSM users, or any other type of market connoisseurs. When submitting issues / feature requests please ELI5 (Explain Like I'm 5)

• GSA was originally created as a side project for 'the lazy town kid'.

Due to the intended audience of GSA issues can be reported on Discord: https://discord.gg/UeX7RekyUq.

Disclaimer

Reinforcing the 'AS-IS' part of the LGPL license. You can inspect every element of the code being provided due to its open source nature, and therefore any decisions on how you spend your gold in World of Warcraft remain yours.

The code is not yet production quality or optimized. It is in an "it works, spaghetti" state, this will be improved over time - help appreciated.

"Python absolutely sucks for concurrency!"

It does, in addition this project was written in a rush. However, Python is the most widely accessible language in the world. Therefore, it is hoped that it is easy for others to contribute, review and improve.

The Legal Stuff

Blizzard Entertainment

• The Blizzard API Terms of Use can be found here .
• All .json and API data is sourced by official Blizzard Entertainment APIs, and as such belongs to them.
• Blizzard Entertainment does not actively endorse this project (as with any addon).
• All trademarks are owned by their respective owners - primarily BLIZZARD ENTERTAINMENT, INC.

Source Code Copyright (C) 2021 BinaryHabitat. Released under GNU LESSER GENERAL PUBLIC LICENSE.