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09-19-08, 11:15 PM   #1
Niightblade
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Talents/Skills data scraping?

Does anyone know where sites like mmo-champ and wowhead get the data for their talent/skill pages? i.e. do they parse some client-file or do they use a custom mod to parse the details in-game?
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09-20-08, 12:33 AM   #2
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From memory, they parse the cache files found under /Cache/WDB/enUS/
Where enUS is your local, and the root is your wow directory.

Could be completely wrong, though.
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09-20-08, 05:05 AM   #3
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Hmm... that directory is empty for me in WotLK.
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09-20-08, 09:56 AM   #4
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Well I pretty much answered my own question after a few hours of digging about on the web. All the info is in the WoW\Data\enUS\*.mpq files. Next question: Does anyone know where I might get a utility to pull the data out and make sense of it I found DBCUtil, but that only does half the job (extraction).
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