The World of Warcraft Auction House Database, a browsable, searchable database of each realm’s auction house listings, updated every two hours. Although I love the idea, and certainly wonder how such a thing is possible, I can’t imagine many scenarios in which this is a must-have. I guess you could be at work and are hot to get a Glowing Brightwood Staff, so you watch the database listings, but then what? You race home to log on and bid? Or, you log on at work and have your coworker bud stand lookout for the boss while you camp the auction? Maybe you’re working Auction Houses across several realms and it’s easier to check the database than logging/relogging several characters? I’m not seeing it. Unless … unless the database can mine data and give us some meaningful stats, then I’m on board for this.
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When I was writing my mod and needed other players around to test it I used to always hang in the AH. I began to notice all the bots. “SwissBanker”, “Bank”, “MoneyHats” etc. I think there’s been versions of this AH scraper for awhile. But the only use (the real intention) for it really is RMT.
RMT?
Real Money Trading. (Wiki)
It does have columns listing Average and Median, so i’m guessing that yes, it is doing some data mining for us. (Damn well better be, or those are mighty misleading column headings.)
It looks like they’re just dumping Auctioneer data into a database and puttin’ a searchable front end on it. I suppose it’d be a cool resource to price check something when you’re too lazy to scan the AH.
Does it just not work anymore? I can’t get any results back.