User:ArmoryProfileBot

Recent News

 * 2008/03/10 ArmoryProfileBot offline : The short version is that the Armory has been feeding APB garbage and it's made APB very, very sick. Rather than make you all continue suffering through disappearing/reappearing APB pages, APB has been taken offline TEMPORARILY while I finish work on his older brother.  The new APB will not only be smart enough to not eat garbage, it will know a number of other tricks as well.  In the mean time, please don't take down your APB Config pages or remove yourself from APB Users; I'll need them when APB 2.0 is ready to take over.  Wish me luck!
 * 2007/08/22 Host Change : The Armory's URL changed today, killing this morning's update attempt. I have successfully run it manually.
 * 2007/08/20 Update Trouble : Though Wowpedia seems to be working fine, most of APB's attempts to contact it today are simply being ignored, even when I run the update manually. I can't promise there will be an update today.

Introduction
Unlike the other bots, this is not a general-purpose, bulk-update bot. It runs once a day and pulls character profile data from the Armory (EU or US) and posts it to Wowpedia. There are three steps to getting ArmoryProfileBot to include your characters in this update:


 * 1) Add your username to APB's list of users.
 * 2) Create a list of characters at  [[User: /APB Config ]].
 * 3) Add "  " to your user page wherever you want your character list to appear.

Check out my character list and user page to see how it looks.

Rules
There are a few simple rules to using APB:


 * The   gets completely overwritten every day when the bot runs, so there's generally no point in editing it.
 * You can remove yourself from future updates by removing yourself from the user list. Doing so will not delete your existing character table; it just won't get updated anymore.
 * The list of users and list of characters have a simple, but required, format. If you don't follow it, your updates won't work.
 * If you mess with APB's images, templates, or user list &mdash; or other user's character lists &mdash; expect to get reported as a vandal, as it's almost certain to break something. If you want changes made to APB, say something on my talk page.

List format
The formatting of the user and character lists is simple. One name per line, optionally with a numbered or bulleted list marker in front. Blank lines, headings, and lines containing templates are ignored. The idea is to make it possible to make your list look nice enough to include in a page if you like without getting too difficult for APB to read. Here are some example character lists:

US Draenor Malefactor US Draenor Caegar US Malfurion Crass
 * The wiki formats this as a big blob of text, but APB reads it just fine:

* US Ner'zhul Ethstabe
 * This will be displayed as a simple bulleted list:
 * US Ner'zhul Attarn

=== My toons ===
 * Using headers makes it possible to group characters, but they're ignored completely by APB:
 * US Draenor Malefactor
 * US Draenor Caegar
 * US Malfurion Crass

Friends' toons

 * US Draenor Jendala
 * US Draenor Nazeemba
 * US Malfurion Jenraani

Source
This bot was written in PHP and uses the HTTP extension. The full source can be viewed here.