Help us Collect InformationFollow

If you are playing beta or the stress test, please help us out in collecting data. Rale has developed a program similar to the Lucy item collector for Everquest that collects WoW info. You just need to install it on your computer and run it after you log out of each wow session. It will upload to our database every item you moused over, every quest you accepted and every mob you targetted, along with their location and any drop info if you killed them. It does not need to be running while you are actually playing, just run after you log out or quit. Thanks for the help.

The url to download the program is

http://lucy.allakhazam.com/wr-setup.exe

Feel free to post any problems you have or any feedback or suggestions.

Edited, Fri Sep 3 23:39:10 2004 by Allakhazam

Edited, Fri Nov 26 21:10:28 2004 by Allakhazam

Ah, now I don't have to package up my wdb files. Hurray for you! Oooh, and I have some delightful pics of some boss mobs to send in.

If you crashed when you logged out or tried to run it while still in the game, this would happen. Basically, the loc info saves when you click on it, but the actual mob info won't save until you log out of the game. So if you crashed, the loc of a mob will be there, but the mob's name won't and the program will tell you there's an unknown mob.

You use this program when you DON'T have WoW running, and it collects the info from your cache files and uploads it to WoW. The program is only open for about a minute. Run, upload, close. Then go play WoW.

Just installed this and zipped a packagge today, keep up the great work alla.

Just a note, I just uploaded a new version with a small bugfix and removed the extra unknown mob/npc popups. It should be automatically downloaded next time you start the app, so nothing to worry about.

- rale

Sorry for not posting sooner, it's already updated to work with this push. Theres a bug with the old version that may cause it to hang while trying to update - if you run into it, delete the 'uifiles' folder in the wowreader installation directory, and then run wowreader again, and it should finish it's update.

- rale

If I understand this app correctly (I am using it to help out the site), it is reading the database format files (wdb's in the WDB folder). Is the database format proprietary to Blizzard or is it some standard format? The reason I ask is, I think it would be cool to be able to export these databases to a format that is readable for tracking all quests and items per character. Have you heard of anyone creating an app like this? It probably wouldn't take much for you guys to alter the current app to display a list. What do you think?

I'm assuming that Wowreader will not run on (Mac) OSX...

I'd be happy to help port your collection and parsing code over to the Mac platform to support the 10-20% of WoW players that use Macs.

Whenever I try to upload, it tells me Login failed, check password. I know I am using the right name and password so what is up?

EDIT: Tried it anonymously and still resulted in the same error.

Edited, Thu Oct 14 13:44:41 2004 by Fafamer

In the pipe, 5 by 5.

Yep, its working great.

Carrying over from my (anonymous) post on the WoW UI forums... I have the latest version of WowReader, I gave it permission out on my firewall (which is port inspecific by the way), and it's still telling me that it can't establish a connection -- even though I can it see it doing exactly that on my firewall's monitor, to db.allakhazam.com. Any thoughts?