WoW API: GetSpellLink

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Get chat-link for a spell.

link = GetSpellLink(spellId or spellName)

Arguments

(spellId/spellName, spellRank)

spellId

Integer - The global spell number, found on wowhead or through COMBAT_LOG_EVENT.

or

spellName

String - The name of the spell (Rank may be specified, defaults to highest if omitted)

spellRank

String - The rank of the spell "Rank 1" etc. You can use "" and still get a response of the highest rank known. (usefull for things like GetSpellLink("Faerie Fire (Feral)") which would return nil unless you use GetSpellLink("Faerie Fire (Feral)", "")

Returns

link

String - A link to the spell, can be outputed directly though AddMessage()

Details

Returns

Note that this does link does not contain any ranks, for instance if you request a link for fireball rank 10 it would look like: [Fireball]

If you wish to display rank use GetSpellInfo and output using the following code:

local name, rank = GetSpellInfo(SpellID);
DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Spell: |Hspell:" .. SpellID .."|h|r|cff71d5ff[" .. name .. " " .. rank .. "]|r|h");