How to find LOTRO item ID numbers?

Before this latest update, I could do a search in lorebook and get a list of items. I could then view the source of the page and find the actual LOTRO ID numbers for each item. For instance, the DN minstrel gloves, Gloves of the Lady's Grace, has a LOTRO ID number of 1879112264. This makes it convenient for scripts that generate links because I can link to the icon and the page just by knowing the ID number and not having to worry about special characters and such that exist in some LOTRO names:

LINK: http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Speci...?id=1879112264
ICON: http://loreimages.level3.lotro.com/i...&id=1879112264

However, as of today, the underlying mechanism of the search results has changed such that these LOTRO ID numbers no longer show up in the source of the page.

So, my question is: is there a convenient way to now find the LOTRO ID number of an item? For instance, I don't know the ID number for DN minstrel shoes, Shoes of the Lady's Grace. Is there a public way to find out the ID number?

Thanks in advance,
Harl

It may not be in the search results, but it's in the source of the item's actual page.

Ah, yes you're right. That was not a good example. Try this one. The ID number for the Sealed Silver Setting of Strength is 1879148016. Here's the link for its page: http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Item:...ng_of_Strength. No where on the page is the string '1879148016'.

On some pages that have a Barter sub-window (which is really cool, BTW), the ID number can be found, but not all items can be bartered.

So, I'm back to my original question. How do I find the ID number?

Thanks,
Harl

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Originally Posted by Harlinator

Ah, yes you're right. That was not a good example. Try this one. The ID number for the Sealed Silver Setting of Strength is 1879148016. Here's the link for its page: http://lorebook.lotro.com/wiki/Item:...ng_of_Strength. No where on the page is the string '1879148016'.

On some pages that have a Barter sub-window (which is really cool, BTW), the ID number can be found, but not all items can be bartered.

So, I'm back to my original question. How do I find the ID number?

Thanks,
Harl

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Not sure if it helps but if you EDIT the page you find...

Code:

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<official type="game">
<item id="1879148016" name="Sealed Silver Setting of Strength" />
</official>

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Nice find!! Thanks!

Augh! Yes, when I said the source of the page, I meant the wiki-source, not the HTML-source. Bad, ambiguous Smythe.

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Originally Posted by atteSmythe

Augh! Yes, when I said the source of the page, I meant the wiki-source, not the HTML-source. Bad, ambiguous Smythe.

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hehe and since I was previously using the HTML source, this is what I inferred.

Essentially, I have a perl bot that parses the search results page and grabs the item name and their ID numbers and stores them locally on my home machine. Since the ID numbers no longer show up on the search results, I would obviously have to check each item's page individually.

Although modifying my bot to do this is easy, I really didn't want to hit up their server for every single page (or at least for every item that has no name match in my local DB).

Ah well....at least the ID number is still hanging around in there :)

Harl

Hrm, and data.lotro.com requires the actual item id. Yeah, there doesn't appear to be any convenient way of discovering the ID of an item that wasn't already handed to you by one of Turbine's other sources.

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Originally Posted by atteSmythe

Hrm, and data.lotro.com requires the actual item id. Yeah, there doesn't appear to be any convenient way of discovering the ID of an item that wasn't already handed to you by one of Turbine's other sources.

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I read this and it didn't click until now.... I did not know you could query data.lotro.com for items. I thought it was only characters and kins. Is this documented somewhere? Looking at the userguide, I do not see this capability....if it exists, I would be set :)

Harl

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Originally Posted by Harlinator

I read this and it didn't click until now.... I did not know you could query data.lotro.com for items. I thought it was only characters and kins. Is this documented somewhere? Looking at the userguide, I do not see this capability....if it exists, I would be set :)

Harl

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Bracket announced this recently. He may not have updated the user guide yet.

Hope that helps.

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Originally Posted by Duwis

Bracket announced this recently. He may not have updated the user guide yet.

Hope that helps.

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I completely missed this announcement. I got 2 words for it: SWEET NESS!