WoW:API GetItemInfo

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Return information about a specific item.

args = GetItemInfo(itemID or "itemString");

Parameters

Arguments

(itemId or "itemString")

itemId

Integer - The numeric ID of the item. ie. 12345

"itemString"

String - The full item ID in string format, e.g. "item:12345:0:0:0"

Returns

itemName, itemString, itemQuality, itemMinLevel, itemType, itemSubType, itemStackCount, itemEquipLoc, itemTexture

itemName

String - The name of the item.

itemString

String - The item id in string format, e.g. "item:12345:0:0:0".

itemQuality

Integer - The quality of the item. The value is 0 to 6, which represents Poor to Artifact.

itemMinLeveL

Integer - The minimum level required to use the item, 0 being no level requirement.

itemType

String - The type of the item. Armor, Weapon, Quest, Key, etc.

itemSubType

String - The sub type of the item. Enchanting, Cloth, Sword, etc. See itemType.

itemStackCount

Integer - How many of the item per stack. ie. 20 for Runecloth, 1 for weapon, 100 for Alterac Ram Hide, etc.

itemEquipLoc

String - Where the item may be equipped, if it can. The string returned is also the name of a global string variable, i.e. for "INVTYPE_HEAD" there is a INVTYPE_HEAD variable containing a localized, displayable name of the location.

itemTexture

String - The name and path for the inventory icon texture for the item.

Example

local sName, sLink, iQuality, iLevel, sType, sSubType, iCount = GetItemInfo(16846);
message(sName..","..iQuality..","..sType..","..iCount);

Result

Message box will pop-up with - "Giantstalker's Helmet,4,Armor,1".

Details

This function will ONLY retrieve data that is in your local cache.

If you have never seen the item that belongs to the Item ID or Item Link it will return nil.

All string returns (itemName, itemType, itemSubType) are localized. Prior to 1.9, itemEquipLoc was localized also.

Common usage

function GetItemInfoFromItemLink(link)
  local itemId = nil;
  if ( type(link) == "string" ) then
    _,_, itemId = string.find(link, "item:(%d+):");
    if(itemId) then
      return GetItemInfo(itemId);
    end
  end
end

local link = FunctionThatGetsItemLink(arg1, arg2);
local itemName, itemLink, itemQuality, itemLevel, itemType, itemSubType, itemCount, itemTexture 
  = GetItemInfoFromItemLink(link);

The above function will work with itemStrings as well as itemLinks.