LootLink

LootLink is a versatile item database addon which stores a grand amount of information about any item you've ever seen from any source. Included in this information is the item's name, full tooltip data, vendor price, and the date when it was last truly seen on the current server. Once added to your database, the item can be linked or tried on in the dressing room as if it was present in your bags. The database can be browsed by inputting to the search window any combination of name, full text, rarity, bind type, equip slot, type (armor, weapon, recipe, etcetera), subtype (cloth, one-handed sword, Alchemy, etcetera), minimum and maximum equip level and internal level, and whether it is unique. The database can then be sorted (in ascending or descending order) by any of those attributes by clicking the dropdown menu at the top of the results window.

Prominent features include:

- The conversion of typed item names into real item links (typing "[iron ore]" will replace the text with the real link for Iron Ore, and typing "[scout's blade {28}]" will replace the text with the level 28 version of the Warsong Gulch reward) with optional auto-completion suggestions (simply press Tab to fill in the rest of the suggested completion text, or press Shift-Tab to see other possible auto-completions).

- The ability to perform a full reparse of one's own database, refreshing all search and full-text data to the newest available from the server, and fixing any incorrect or invalid item names.

- The optional display of a great amount of extra item tooltip information (including vendor price, basic IDs, socket IDs, time last parsed, and the item's internal level as the game views it).

- The automatic combing of your itemcache.wdb file for any items which may have eluded parsing through normal means.

- The ability to automatically scan all pages of the auction house for new item data ("/lootlink auctionscan").

- A multitude of extra tooltip item data lines, including the vendor value for the item, the internal level of the item as the game sees it, the item's basic IDs (base, enchant, suffix, and instance), the item's socket IDs (gem 1, gem 2, gem 3, and the gem socket bonus), the time the item was last truly seen on the current server, and the maximum number of the item which can be in a single stack. There are also options to change the text color from the default teal to a plain white, and to include a separator line between the normal tooltip and this data.

- A QuickSearch edit box to quickly perform a search by name instead of opening the Search window (press Enter), or to sort through current search results to find an item matching the text you've input (press Tab), with the ability to quickly clear its contents by pressing Alt + Enter.

- The ability to manually add items to one's database from information available on sites like Wowhead, Allakhazam, or Thottbot, via a simple slash command method ("/lootlink addbybasicdetails" to provide the details yourself, or "/lootlink addbyrequestlink" to attempt to request the data from the server).

- The ability for others to use your database with specially prefixed chat messages. They can type "!item [text]" to have the first 9 results of searching your database by name for [text], or they can type ">item [text]" to have a single result sent to whatever form of chat they used to place the request.

- A small, mobile minimap-style button which can be clicked to toggle the results window, and dragged by holding Shift, Ctrl, or Alt. Also, its text will turn yellow whenever a new item enters your database, and displays a list of the last twenty items to have been added, just as the results window's title text does.

- The ability to perform a quick command line database search by name with either "/lootlink search [item name]" or "/ll s [item name]", the first ten results from which will be printed to the chat frame.

Coming eventually:

- A set of static data which is loaded, and stored, by LootLink instead of by the game's saved variables loader. This has the potential to greatly decrease the memory requirement of the saved database, as well as the initial login time.

- A right-click dropdown menu for every item in the results list, allowing you to manually alter stored data.

Feedback and Inquiries

I welcome feedback for any of my addons, including this one. However, if the feedback is a bug report or feature request, please use the methods on this page (the "Bugs" and "Features" buttons below the "Download" button in the top right) to alert me, instead of posting in the "Comments" section of this page, as it will take me longer to reply to you if you post there. For feedback or inquiries not related to bugs or features, such as information about translating this addon to another language or a request for a detailed explanation of a certain bit of code, please contact me directly via one of the methods listed in the "Preamble" section of my author portal's introduction text. Following these guidelines will ensure that I read and reply to your message.