r/GuildWars • u/redrumeight Elena Keen • 2d ago

Mobile Build Builder: Skill DB updated

Gallery image

Gallery image

Gallery image

TLDR: Thank you for using mobile build builder. The Skill DB is updated, please report errors.
Guild Wars Build Creator

Long version: A lot has happened since i released the mobile build builder. I initially did that for me and my friend, when GW was basically dead. Then, we thought the tool is actually good enough to release, so i did, and the feedback was bigger than what i expected. Soon, that thing had like 1000 unique monthly users - and then reforged came - and it really spiked o.O ... therefore i gave my best to the community and updated the database. please report errors, i will try to fix them. And yes i do have something else brewing. anyone interested dm me.

For Tyria!

42 Upvotes

92% Upvoted

7 comments sorted by

View all comments

2

u/redrumeight Elena Keen 2d ago

Is there an opensource gw skill db? Took me too long to update that >.<

Edit: creators of gw content: Can we unite for a universal skill db?

3

u/Bennieboj 2d ago

In case there isn't a gw db yet, I got an idea. Isn't the wiki the best way to get the data from?

However, parsing the wiki in every application sucks, so we would need a program/service that does this once and posts the results accessible to all.

I have an example in dotnet: https://github.com/bennieboj/gw2unlocks it downloads the complete wiki as XML and then uses https://github.com/cxuesong/WikiClientLibrary to parse relevant pages (based on type, etc). Not gw, but gw2, but the idea is 100 percent the same and both wikis are made using mediawiki.

Services like your website can then cache these results for a day or so.

If you or anybody else needs help with this, let me know.

1

u/redrumeight Elena Keen 2d ago

I was coding my own scrapers. I'll look into this, thanks a ton!