Dump WoW Armory

[gr3ger]

Heya!

I have a pretty quick question, is there any way to make a single dump of the entire character portion of the armory? I have a couple of ideas that I want to try out, and this is only possible if the entire character armory can be dumped, not only specific characters.

Any help/hints on how this is done would be appreciated, so far I've only been able to dump specific characters by name.

Cheers!

[The-Eradicator]

Short answer: No.

Long answer: Kind of. Get an initial pool of players, try searching for some type of common character name. From each of those characters, look at every player in each characters guild and look at their arena teams. From the players on the arena teams, look at their guilds and arena teams. So on and so forth. That's the best you can do.

[Danne206]

As above, or go through the chars the "bruteforce" way.
Search for a-z - lenght 3-12
Will take some time, so their stats and such will be outdated.

[Kandahar]

Whats your idea?

I've looked at doing this also in the past, and the first posters response was the exact implementation I would have used. I just didn't.

[gr3ger]

Myes, it makes sense, but it's very prone to failing :P
My intent was to make a ninja searcher, I came up with a pretty fool proof idea.

If I could cache all players available, let's say once a week.
Since players can change name, race, gear, guilds server, there aren't many unique identifiers to find ninjas.
BUT! If you take a set of relatively rare achievements, save the dates of when these achievements were earned, you have a relatively unique identifier that cannot be escaped from.
So if I could dump the armory, tracking of ninjas cross server even if they changed everything about the characters, they could still be found.

But thanks for your help I guess this project is a nogo unless I can cache all.