WoW API: GetTradeSkillInfo

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Synopsis

Retrieves information about a specific trade skill.

skillName, skillType, numAvailable, isExpanded = GetTradeSkillInfo(skillIndex)

Arguments

(skillIndex)

skillIndex

Number - The id of the skill you want to query.

Returns

skillName, skillType, numAvailable, isExpanded

skillName

String - The name of the skill, e.g. "Copper Breastplate" or "Daggers", if the skillIndex references to a heading.

skillType

String - Either "header", if the skillIndex references to a heading, or a string indicating the difficulty to craft the item ("trivial", "easy", "medium", "optimal", "difficult").

numAvailable

Number - The number of items the player can craft with his available trade goods.

isExpanded

Boolean - Returns if the header of the skillIndex is expanded in the crafting window or not

Example

local tradeSkillsNum;
local name, type;
for i=1,GetNumTradeSkills() do
   name, type, _, _ = GetTradeSkillInfo(i);
   if (name and type ~= "header") then
      DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Found: "..name);
   end
end

Result

Displays all items the player is able to craft in the chat windows.

Details

Retrieves the name of the skill, the type of the skill and the amount the player can craft for a specific crafting skill.