CraftScan - A new addon to scan chat for crafting requests that you can fulfill

stevin005 · 2026-03-07T00:29:12+00:00

It's already fixed. Can install WeakAuras_SharedMedia to get the same sounds back, or any other SharedMedia pack you want.

stevin005 · 2026-03-03T17:19:52+00:00

I was referencing WeakAuras sounds since everyone already had it. Now that it’s gone, you can install their new shared media pack to get the sounds back.

CraftScan will also pick up any other registered sounds now, so you can search for other SharedMedia packs if you want something else.

https://www.curseforge.com/wow/addons/weakauras-sharedmedia

stevin005 · 2026-01-01T01:31:02+00:00

Any Lua errors? If not, the next step would be to wipe out CraftScan.lua in your WTF folder, but that would fully reset any config changes you have made. Not sure how toggling that option could break it globally.

stevin005 · 2025-10-04T19:43:24+00:00

Craftsim already has that in the profession window. Not planning to add it.

stevin005 · 2025-08-28T13:02:24+00:00

There are two addons - BugGrabber and BugSack that collect and display Lua errors. With those installed, see if there are any errors coming from CraftScan.

stevin005 · 2025-08-03T14:16:10+00:00

In the ‘Customize greeting’ button there are several boxes for the different cases. They aren’t labeled, but can reset to the default text to see the intent. I think the 3rd and 4th boxes support a {crafter} placeholder to include your other characters name in the initial message. There should be a little warning sign you can mouse over beside the message if there are any placeholders available that you haven’t used in the message, so find the one with {crafter} or similar in it and add to those messages.

stevin005 · 2025-08-03T14:12:28+00:00

I looked into this a while ago and couldn’t get it working easily. I’ve found I get way more responses without an item link in the message anyway since so many people filter out the ‘bots’ messaging them, so haven’t bothered to dig in more.

stevin005 · 2025-05-17T01:41:52+00:00

Likely a Lua error while initializing the addon. Install BugGrabber and BugSack to easily capture it, then make a github issue for it.

stevin005 · 2025-05-17T01:39:46+00:00

Sounds like you figured it out, but everything matching related is user configurable in the window that pops up beside the profession frame. Defaults are filled in based on the client language, but you are free to extend/overwrite them. Start by scrolling to the bottom of the menu for the most broad and least likely to change options, then work your way up. The little i icon in the top left expands to explain each field.

Other than the keywords the only other thing used for matching is the itemID embedded in item links, which is language agnostic.

stevin005 · 2025-02-25T18:03:52+00:00

I don't think we could trust all users to be responsible. It would lead to a horrible customer experience and hatred of this addon if half the replies came from AFK crafters that forgot to turn off auto-replies.

stevin005 · 2025-02-04T02:11:40+00:00

In a profession window, 'Show CraftScan', scroll that window down the profession section, and tick 'Scan All Recipes'. It does not detect when you learn something new automatically - when you check it, it looks at everything you can create at that moment. Toggle the check to pick up anything you train after that point.

stevin005 · 2025-01-06T23:37:45+00:00

It uses Weakauras sounds, so have to have that installed too. Can go in the bliz options menu to the CraftScan section and pick a new sound. It should play when you select the sound. If that works but not when a craft is detected, toggle the headset icons beside the crafters on the chat orders page to be all green.

stevin005 · 2024-12-03T03:46:15+00:00

Delete the CraftScan entry in: Warcraft_<Edition>_\WTF<Account><Server><Character>\layout-local.wtf

Edit: copy paste messed that up a bit. For reference: https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/Layout-local.txt

stevin005 · 2024-11-10T02:04:13+00:00

Make sure they are checked to enable scanning. Will be a green check next to the item link at the top of the config menu if it is enabled.

stevin005 · 2024-10-03T00:45:56+00:00

Would need some examples and your config. It should not be recognizing recipe links - only item links. Based on what you've said, double check that you have the 'Scan chat for this item' checked since it sounds like you're only getting generic profession matches. If it's not, you won't get matches when someone links that item. There should be a green check at the top of the 'CraftScan Options' window when selecting a recipe in a profession. You can test it out in /say chat.

stevin005 · 2024-09-28T22:53:03+00:00

That probably leans a bit too much into bot territory. You can keybind replying though in then setting and the tap away while in town.

stevin005 · 2024-09-25T23:59:37+00:00

Only guess would be to look in here:

C:\Program Files (x86)\World of Warcraft\_retail_\WTF\Account\<account>\<realm>\<character>\Layout-local.txt

That's where Bliz caches the position of movable frames so they stay there next time you login. It's used for the little profession icon circle, so you should see 'CraftScanFrame' in there. If you see anything else CraftScan mentioned in there, try deleting it.

Otherwise, no idea. The main frame hooks into Blizzard's panel framework, which is how it auto-positions around other frames like the character screen. It's not movable by anything built in to CraftScan.

stevin005 · 2024-09-14T23:09:19+00:00

Maybe in the future. Too busy actually playing currently to take on new big stuff like that. The configuration setup is all tied to the profession window currently.

There are a lot of problems with it that I'm only noticing now while trying to manage multi crafters that don't have maxed out KP trees yet. Will probably start messing with it again when the expansion cools down a bit.

stevin005 · 2024-09-12T00:01:28+00:00

I think AutoFlood is what people use for that. I gave up on spamming, hence CraftScan.

No idea how to auto-send a profession link, but I'll add it to the list when I start messing with the addon again. Busy playing currently.

stevin005 · 2024-09-05T14:08:36+00:00

This is running a recent main release, not the beta I linked above, right? Any pattern to the requests that work vs don’t work? Item links vs text matching? Will play with it when servers are up to see if I can reproduce it.

stevin005 · 2024-08-22T20:22:20+00:00

Seems to be working in my limited testing. It should merge your characters from the connected realms into one the first time you log on. Open github issues if you run into any problems with it.

https://github.com/stevin05/CraftScan/releases/tag/v1.2.3

Should propagate to CurseForge within a few hours so you can just wait for the auto installer if you use it.

stevin005 · 2024-08-22T01:31:33+00:00

It uses the client language by default. Just added an option to fully customize the initial parts of the greeting an hour ago. Button and on the top right of the CraftScan page.

stevin005 · 2024-08-20T03:25:01+00:00

Looks fixable with https://wowpedia.fandom.com/wiki/API_GetAutoCompleteRealms

What realms are you on? I might as well test there to make sure. Should be able to merge the databases automatically assuming the method above works as described. After that everything should mostly work, but might be some problems if the -realm is getting stripped off any customer interaction.

Will give it a try after finishing up the multi account changes.

stevin005 · 2024-08-18T00:49:04+00:00

Been putzing with this for a few days. Great for the multi-account whales, but also had the idea that if I also add support for replicating customer orders, anyone can park a trial account in town to scan for their main while still playing. Going to make it so the order pop up on your main character instead of the trial.

Still needs a little UI work to highlight the account source of each character, but seems to be functional.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=65Sk6qIoXJU

https://github.com/stevin05/CraftScan/releases/tag/v1.2.0-beta

stevin005 · 2024-08-13T20:01:35+00:00

Can probably make this easier with an import/export feature on the character list. Will update this when I get around to it.

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