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by solardev 1091 days ago
Well, both! But for POE specifically, there's a lot of stuff they don't want to expose (the UI, damage numbers, MTX info, etc.)

I wanted to build a better catalog for their MTX (because their shop site is pretty terrible) and was explicitly denied API access even though they already have a public API for it that their site uses. Shrug.

Path of building is great, but AFAIK the formulas used for it are from observations and not an API.
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RockRobotRock 1089 days ago
POB uses the player's POESESSID instead of the oAuth API, which GGG has specifically warned against: https://old.reddit.com/r/pathofexile/comments/zmkm9t/how_pob...
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xaitv 1091 days ago
That's true yes. Most of the Path of Building stuff is datamined and/or tested ingame. Interesting that they declined the shop idea, guess they dislike people touching anything to do with their monetization.
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solardev 1091 days ago
Yeah, their official API support is just really limited... by policy, not availability. https://www.pathofexile.com/developer/docs#resources

As in they have a bunch of endpoints that are perfectly usable but they don't want you using it for some reason. It spawned a small ecosystem of third party docs and wrappers on poedb and github.

I can't tell if GGG just don't have the resources to support more APIs or if they are worried about increasing access for other business reasons, but they do threaten an account ban for unauthorized use of their public APIs. It's too bad, as someone who's both spent a lot of money with them and wanted to spend more but could never find the right items because their official shop is so bad. Oh well.

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