Send a scan

Blizzard publishes no auction data for WoW Forever or Classic Era. Every price on those pages is a scan a player made in game. If you scan your realm's auction house with the TheWoWDB addon, this is how you send it.

From the addon

1. Open the auction house and click TheWoWDB: Scan.
2. When it finishes, click Send to TheWoWDB. That reloads your interface, which is what makes WoW write the scan to disk.
3. Your scan is now in SavedVariables, named after the addon folder.

Send the file

Run python tools/harvest_addon_scans.py --out scan.ndjson to turn the saved variables into a scan file, then post it:

curl -X POST https://thewowdb.com/api/addon/scan \
  -H "X-WGF-Upload-Token: YOUR_TOKEN" \
  --data-binary @scan.ndjson

Sign in to get your personal upload token. You can also send a scan without signing in, with a smaller size limit and fewer uploads an hour.

What happens next

The scan lands in a queue and is ingested within fifteen minutes. You get a receipt straight away saying which realm, which game version and how many items were read.

A scan we cannot file honestly is kept and marked, never thrown away and never guessed at. That happens when the file does not say which game client it came from, when it came from a version whose prices come from Blizzard instead, or when its prices are far from what the realm already shows. The receipt says which.

Limits

• Signed in: 24 MB a file, 12 uploads an hour, 30 a day.
• Not signed in: 4 MB a file, 3 uploads an hour, 10 a day.
• One scan session per file. Send a new file rather than editing one.

TheWoWDB is a fan site and is not affiliated with Blizzard.