World of Warcraft Armory xml feed...

[EvolveDesigns]

Hey all,

there's a section on the world of warcraft site where you see your character/guild rankings along with alot of info. if you view source it's very clean xml, but if you try to load that xml into an app it comes up blank. It seems to read what browser your using, then give xml results if it's supported..

My question is, is there some way to spoof the site into thinking your using a supported browser? or some other options? Thanks all!

here's an example link (im Leetamus woot woot )
http://www.wowarmory.com/guild-info....ash&n=LOOM&p=1

[Schfifty Five]

This will do it (if you're using firefox):

https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/59

[EvolveDesigns]

hmm that's pretty cool, installed hehe. although it doesn't help with my problem as i need to pull the xml into flash so i think i need some sort of php script that will spoof itself as firefox then echo out the xml. thanks : D

[EvolveDesigns]

bump

[whispers]

what happens when you call the XML/page in flash?
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...ash&n=Leetamus

as your source?

can you parse the XML and trace it out?

Update: nope.. I even tried to bounce it off a proxy.. it seems to be passing alot of vars to build the xml...

I can only get the doc type to output..

[whispers]

both of these return the same results;

/*
var wowXML:XML = new XML();
wowXML.ignoreWhite = true;
wowXML.onLoad = function(){
	trace("OUTPUT: "+wowXML);
}
wowXML.load("http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gorgonnash&n=Leetamus");
*/

var proxyVars:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
var wowXML:XML = new XML();
wowXML.ignoreWhite = true;
wowXML.onLoad = function(success) {
	if (!success) {
		trace("LOAD NO GOOD");
		wowData_txt.text = "LOAD NO GOOD";
	} else {
		trace("returned: "+wowXML);
		wowData_txt.text = wowXML;
	}
}
proxyVars.dataURL = "http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gorgonnash&n=Leetamus";
proxyVars.sendAndLoad("http://www.yourdomain.com/proxy.php", wowXML, "POST");

[EvolveDesigns]

yeah that's what i've found too, someone has managed to do it so i know it can be done with some fancy scripting. check out the examples section here:
http://wow.ukgl.co.uk/

[whispers]

ask them how they are doing it.. maybe some sort of script that is scraping the code for specific "ID's"..

[EvolveDesigns]

they use coldfusion so their method won't work for me, i don't have access to a coldfusion server

[EvolveDesigns]

I found this code at gotoandlearn, the creator says it works, but it I can't get it running.. maybe someone can see why?

    var rootURL:String = "http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?";
    var charRealm:String = "Duskwood";
    var charName:String = "Shrapnil";
    var charSheetXML_URL:String = rootURL +"r="+ charRealm +"&n="+ charName;
    // EXAMPLE URL : http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Duskwood&n=Shrapnil
    trace(charSheetXML_URL);

    var loadedXML:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
    loadedXML.addRequestHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2");

    var resultXML:LoadVars = new LoadVars();
    resultXML.onLoad = function(success:Boolean){
       if(success){
          trace("XML loaded - Character Sheet");
          trace(unescape(this));
          output_txt.text = unescape(this);
       }else{
          trace("unable to load XML data");
          output_txt.text = "-FAILED-";
       }
    }
    output_txt.text = "-LOADING-";
    loadedXML.sendAndLoad(charSheetXML_URL, resultXML, "POST"); 

[EvolveDesigns]

In case anyone else is trying to do this, the above code actually does work fine, but only using Flash8.... Run the same code in CS3 (using actionscript2) and it returns the html version, in Flash 8 you get the XML which is a total mystery to me!

[Arodaen]

I know this is a very old topic, but this didn't really get resolved very well in my opinion. Anyway, I was reading through various googles for a solution for a different problem (still regarding armory, but kinda different) and came across this post.

For those of you wondering, all you should need to do to "spoof" the browser unless Blizzard have been sneaky is to add the "User-Agent" header to your request.

In the above script, this is the line:

loadedXML.addRequestHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2");

The 2nd parameter there can be changed to various different strings to "spoof" different browsers- you'll have to experiment and all I can really suggest is to google something like "User-Agent Codes" or chuck some php in a file and run it in a specific browser to get it's code.

Now, I don't know much flash (I'm a PHP developer) but HTTP requests are all the same... Enjoy

[superlamer]

You dont need coldfusion to load wow armory data in flash (or php,asp etc etc). You just need more practise and perhaps alittle imagination :P

http://www.oefentherapieinamsterdam.nl/mdk/index.html

directly loaded from armory pages. PM for pointers, but dont think i'll give .fla away :P

[whispers]

not that I care one bit about WoW..

but I dont get the secret?

Either it DOES or does NOT return an XML feed.?

Do you need a PROXY?

or as suggested some HEADER added?

there is no need for any secret PM's.. this place is a community for learning & sharing..


for example this URL used for an example:
http://www.wowarmory.com/character-s...ash&n=Leetamus

will parse to a page if viewed in a browser... if you call that in Flash you only get this as a return:

OUTPUT: <!DOCTYPE html PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD XHTML 1.0 Transitional//EN" "http://www.w3.org/TR/xhtml1/DTD/xhtml1-transitional.dtd">

do you need to send more data before it will parse correctly? I wouldnt think so as pasting that URL works fine.. no extra params..

I see on yoru 'site' you say the data is taking diectly off the sevrer.. due to the MDK hacking skills..

but above you say there is NO php script involved..

and your NOT just scraping the source code??

what does the : l33txml.php file do then??


thanks

[superlamer]

hehe fast reply there... thought this thread was way dead

it worked without the php copy file but i had to use it to make sure that if armory site is down there wouldnt be lots of timeouts.. this way the "server down message" - comes way faster (maybe need to cache in future).

also take my page not too serious

theres no xml feed used in this because somehow the armory xml is protected by blizzard... i mean if they want people to use it they wouldnt make it this hard to use.

basicly my flash reads the source code of the page and scraps it out. prolly can be done easier... i bet u alrdy took a looksy at my source by now :P

if anyones interested in my source (no xml parsing, just a work-around source parser) ill post it later

[whispers]

ok.. so there is NO XML feed you are getting/using (just want to clear that out)..


yes if you want to do some source code parsing.. you can do that.. I actually think PHP to do so might have been easier?? (not to sure as I didnt look at your code much)

the IDEAL way (at least to me) would be to get the XML somehow..

whether by adding a header or using a proxy (which didnt work for my tests anyways)

actually I just tested Evolve Designs post.. and hes 100% correct.. all you need to do is add the header.. and the correct XML data will be returned:

var sentXML:XML = new XML();
sentXML.addRequestHeader("User-Agent", "Mozilla/5.0 (Windows; U; Windows NT 5.1; en-US; rv:1.8.1.2) Gecko/20070219 Firefox/2.0.0.2");
sentXML.ignoreWhite = true;

var wowXML:XML = new XML();
wowXML.ignoreWhite = true;
wowXML.onLoad = function(success) {
    if (!success) {
        trace("LOAD NO GOOD");
        wowData_txt.text = "LOAD NO GOOD";
    } else {
        trace("returned: "+wowXML);
        wowData_txt.text = wowXML;
    }
}
sentXML.sendAndLoad("http://www.wowarmory.com/character-sheet.xml?r=Gorgonnash&n=Leetamus", wowXML, "POST"); 

also the first object doesnt even have to be an XML object..it an be a LoadVar() object.. just need to add the header to it when you send it off to Blizzard..

NOW you can make a nice graphical display of whatever you want.. (dont know jack about WoW) but the details that come back NOW can be used in anything... any kind of graphical display of the data..

[superlamer]

ah nice... ill test it tomorrow

[whispers]

You can get every power,spell,ability and their raking..everything.. you can even load their icons if you wanted..LOL

Since I dont play WoW.. can I ask.. why people want this feed so bad?

What could you use it for? or you just want to display the same data on your personal site or something?

This wouldnt have any effect on game play or anything....right

[superlamer]

It has 0,0 effect on in-game stuff. Its just people want their info off the armory pages in their website. (ie. memberlist etc).

btw you are right the header trick does the trick

[EvolveDesigns]

I used it make a little desktop app for guild members which lists all guild members and their rank,class, level etc. That said, a sweet use would be an addon which would list the enemy persons gear and stats when you mouse over them.. (for those that don't play wow you can't inspect enemys to check out their stuff, but you can pull that data from the armoury..) with all the addons out there im amazed nobody has done this before