Embed your Armory info
by Eliah Hecht 
Jul 25th 2007 at 5:06PM
Ever looked at your Armory page and thought "this is nice, but I wish I could put it on another web page"? Well, now you can! MMO Guildsites has created a widget that can be embedded anywhere you like (guild rosters, maybe?), and consists of an iframe linking to a script that runs on their servers (so you don't need any server-side script support on your own site). The output is rather pretty, as you can see at right; in fact, I like it better than the actual Armory in many ways.It does have a few shortcomings -- you can't see how much +damage you have in various schools, for instance -- but I still like it as a way to put live Armory data anywhere you want it. (It can show PvP data too, by the way, but I turned mine off for the screenshot since my numbers are downright shameful.) If you're interested, click over to their site, put in your server and character name, and it'll generate a preview and HTML for you to paste wherever you want it.
Filed under: Fan stuff, Virtual selves, Guilds
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
Scruffy Jul 25th 2007 5:18PM
Weak. Doesn't show enchants, gems, or random enchants on greens.
It's even missing one of my trinkets.
Regis Jul 25th 2007 5:31PM
Really buggy. Displays my 5v5 team as a 2v2. Strange places you need to hold mouse to see the tooltip, no enchants, no gems. It's nothing I would use, but the idea is nice, would really be good on our guild site.
synack Jul 25th 2007 5:54PM
Broken in Safari.
Lesley Smith Jul 25th 2007 5:57PM
Refuses to work in IE7 under Vista.
Gendou Jul 25th 2007 6:08PM
This is really nice, but I don't know of a single major forum that allows for embedded iFrames. Even Livejournal chokes on it. So while it's a great idea (even with the flawed implementation), I'm failing to see the wider appeal to it.
bigredkitty Jul 25th 2007 7:00PM
Well, BRK has it running under Blogger. Impressed? Not terribly, mainly for all the reasons #1 said.
Thedon Jul 25th 2007 7:29PM
Using tables to layout for that kind of data is a bad idea. Broken in a few browsers. Would be best if it was written to do the layout in CSS. That way iFrames can be told to gtfo.
Cavaleer Jul 25th 2007 8:29PM
Doesn't work for me on Blogger.
http://commishoner.blogspot.com/
Evil Sheep Jul 25th 2007 8:53PM
As #1 said, weak. No skills tab, and for my hunter, no pet tab. Great concept, poor implementation. For now, I'll stick with wowroster for showing my info.
Hopefully, a future version of MMO's script will address the issues with both layout and information.
Vanterax Jul 25th 2007 9:01PM
Works very well on our guild forums, but I can't see the use for it. It's too big to use as a forum signature.
Geoff Jul 25th 2007 9:22PM
Despite the complaints...
I'm impressed. Runs faster on my browser than that horrible lag fest it's pulling the info from.
bwest0526 Jul 26th 2007 7:43AM
It doesn't seem to work on ICftB guild website either, and I agree it is very limited in what it shows BUT it does load a LOT faster! Their database seems to be updated a little more though.
Lenny Jul 26th 2007 8:19AM
It would be nifty if you could get a snapshotted image of your character on the armory to reflect different gear sets. Does anyone know of a tool such as this?
Tagor Jul 26th 2007 12:07PM
Not broken but looks funny in Opera.
JRod Aug 30th 2007 10:09AM
GameStreet.Net has a similar character info screen, but its not embeddable in other sites. Instead its customizable like a myspace page.. It pull the info from the armory nightly and shows it on screen, and you can add screenshots, blogs, even your own personal forum. http://www.gamestreet.net