Linkerator
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Have you ever wanted to tell your friends about some impressive loot you saw another adventurer using? Share your regret about the quest reward you foolishly didn’t choose? Spread word to your guild of what your raiding party found? Now you can do so easily with my latest gizmo! Not only does it help you keep track of all the items you encounter, Linkerator makes it super-easy to tell your friends about them in full detail!
Features
- Automatically remembers item links you come across (some of which you might not even see!)… in chat channels, in your inventory and bank, on other players, in loot messages, etc. (Unlike some addons which do this, Linkerator doesn’t keep a database of full names for all items; for most items, it just makes sure your WoW client caches the data.)
- Allows you to insert an item link in chat by merely typing its name in brackets. (i.e., type
/g \[swift razzashi raptor\]to send a message to your guild with a clickable link for the mount they likely won’t see often.) As you type a link, possible completions will appear; pressing Tab allows you to cycle through them, and typing a]will insert the complete link. - Since there are some cases of different items which have the same name, you can type the name followed by something distinctive about the item in parentheses (e.g.
[punctured voodoo doll (druid)]or[warblade of the hakkari (main)]) if you’re looking for a specific match — you can use any item attribute that shows up in that item’s tooltip. Alternately, if you know the item ID of a specific item, you can type it in brackets to link it (e.g.\[#18473\]to get the Hunter variant of [#18473]). - You can also retrieve stored links via various
/linkchat commands.
- Allows you to insert an item link in chat by merely typing its name in brackets. (i.e., type
Chat Commands
/linkerator (or /link) <command>, where<command>can be any of the following:
help– Print this list.delay <number>– Change the delay before automatic completions appear when typing partial links in chat.<number>– Print a link in the chat window for an item given its ID number.<link code>– Print a link in the chat window for an item given a complete link code (e.g.item:789:241:0:0:0:0:2029:0for a [Stout Battlehammer of Healing] with a +2 damage enchant).<name>– Print a link in the chat window for an item given its name or part of its name. (Will show more than one match if available.)
Caveats, Known Bugs, Etc.
- WoW only allows hyperlinks for items that the server has “seen” since its last reset. Linkerator can tell whether an item is in your WoW client’s cache, but it can’t tell whether it’s okay with the server — so you might get disconnected if you try to send a link for, say, [Thunderfury, Blessed Blade of the Windseeker] to a chat channel shortly after server maintenance (unless you have one yourself).
Note: I created Linkerator as a replacement for LootLink/ItemsMatrix/KC_Items/etc. for myself because I never used the features of such addons that allow you to search for items based on their attributes. (So, keeping those addons installed meant I was using up a lot of memory with data I’d never search.) The only think Linkerator does that other link-database addons generally don’t is allow you to type out links in chat… given that I don’t use other link-database addons, I’m not particularly interested in adding this feature to them — bug their authors if you want to use those addons and get the link-typing feature. They’re welcome to borrow my code for it.
