WoW API: GetFriendInfo
← WoW API < GetFriendInfo
Retrieves information about a person on your friends list.
name, level, class, area, connected, status = GetFriendInfo(friendIndex);
Parameters
Arguments
- friendIndex
- Integer - Index of friend in the friend list (Note that status changes can re-order the friend list, indexes are not guaranteed to remain stable across events).
Returns
- name
- String - Friend's name, or nil (if index is invalid)
- level
- Integer - Friend's level, or 0 (if offline/invalid).
- class
- String - Friend's class, or "Unknown" (if offline/invalid).
- area
- String - Friend's current location, or "Unknown" (if offline/invalid).
- connected
- Boolean - 1 if friend is online, nil otherwise.
- status
- String - Friend's current status flags (AFK or DND).
Example
local name, level, class, loc, connected, status = GetFriendInfo(1); if (name) then DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Your "..status.." friend "..name.." (The level "..level.." "..class..") is in "..loc.."."); else DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("You have no friends?!"); end
Result
Your <AFK> friend Bill (The level 99 Leprechaun) is in Neverland.
Notes
Friend information isn't necessarily automatically kept up to date. You can use the ShowFriends function to request an update from the server.