WoW API: GetPlayerInfoByGUID

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Returns basic information about another player from their GUID

localizedClass, englishClass, localizedRace, englishRace, sex = GetPlayerInfoByGUID("guid")

Parameters

Arguments

guid

String - The GUID of the player you're querying about

Returns

localizedClass

String - Class of the character in question (localized)

englishClass

String - Class of the character in question (in English)

localizedRace

String - Race of the character in question (localized)

englishRace

String - Race of the character in question (in English)

sex

String - Gender of the character in question

Details

This function was added in patch 3.2 (August, 2009)

The information is not encoded in the GUID itself: The function yields nothing until the game client saw anything from that GUID.