Please Provide An API For Access To The Asynchronous Trade System
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Please Provide An API For Access To The Asynchronous Trade System. This would benefit numerous third-party applications with the ability to accurately price items. Currently, accurate up-to-date pricing for items available via the the Asynchronous Trade System is not programmatically available.
Such access would benefit: Item filter generators - with the ability to filter by price. Wealth estimators - with the ability to query actual up-to-date prices. Other applications - e.g., an up-to-date filter for scarabs selling for less than 1 chaos. I've posted this thread in the POE1 suggestions forum - but it's just as applicable to POE2. Last bumped on Jan 3, 2026, 1:51:25 PM
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" GGG detests those tools. They lead to people hammering the API, getting rate-limited, and contacting Support saying "not even the official trade website works." The odds of them acting on this request are vanishingly small. Having spent thousands of euros on Path of Exile over the years, I will not be further supporting it financially until and unless GGG resumes offering Technical Support.
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" https://www.pathofexile.com/developer/docs/index#ratelimits:~:text=passing%20the%20threshold.-,Rate%20Limits,-In%20order%20to Not really an issue, you more than most know that any moderator or developer will receive non related complains. That's not much of a reason not to implement an api for async. Pff, who even plays Standard? Last edited by ZarkBit#6794 on Jan 3, 2026, 7:08:45 AM
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Having spent thousands of euros on Path of Exile over the years, I will not be further supporting it financially until and unless GGG resumes offering Technical Support.
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Pff, who even plays Standard? Last edited by ZarkBit#6794 on Jan 3, 2026, 7:09:36 AM
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" Oh, I hadn't seen this the first time. GGG has a lot fewer Support employees than they really should, and I doubt that Rory - and their one other Web Developer (?) - really want to take on more technical queries than they absolutely have to. Remember we're talking about the company that stopped offering Technical Support ~ a decade ago. I do (sincerely!) appreciate your kind words, but I'm not sure if we're quite talking about the same thing. It's true that I would expect the developers of such tools to read up on rate-liming and the like, but the average person using them will just see that they break randomly - and then when even the official trade site doesn't work (same API; same originating IP address), they'll reach out to GGG and it's yet another ticket in the queue for staff to figure out. Wages are the biggest expense of most companies. Anything that introduces an ongoing demand for additional staff from any discipline is something the company would need to seriously consider. I'm just some guy spitballing with an "outside view", but I think if GGG started over they never would have released a public-facing trade API at all. But again - no insider info; that's just my $0.02. Having spent thousands of euros on Path of Exile over the years, I will not be further supporting it financially until and unless GGG resumes offering Technical Support. Last edited by Sarno#0493 on Jan 3, 2026, 7:16:34 AM
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What you're asking basically requires a high-volume API. A real product, not just an endpoint because of the implications. We're talking dedicated microservices for the trade data, load balancer, caching layers and database replicas for league launches when workloads will spike, because it's to be expected that there will be millions of requests per hour.
The one-time cost for an API like this could be anywhere between half a million dollars up till triple that amount, not to speak of the monthly cost. At that point it would have to be a product that they sell access to just to cover monthly operation costs. GGG could not even be bothered to help out the poor chap who was developing and running poe-racing.com which is why that website is dead after the addition of account discriminators. I'll... leave it at that lol. The opposite of knowledge is not illiteracy, but the illusion of knowledge. Last edited by ArtCrusade#4438 on Jan 3, 2026, 11:44:57 AM
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I mean, the better thing to do would just be put price-checking in the actual game. Just make the asynch trade UI be like most auction house systems in other games, you slap an item in and it auto-prices it to whatever the market price is. ez pz no more need for sussy 3rd party tools to price check or asking global chat about a price lol
Like I'd love to know exactly how much my legion jewels sell for, and until price checking is in the game I'll just keep listing them for 1 div then vendoring if they never sell lmfao |
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Players: We hate going to hideouts and needing 3rd party tools to trade easy
GGG: adds async trade to make trading easier and less reliance on 3rd party tools. Players: We want to be able to use 3rd party tools to trade more effectively. People will NEVER stop begging for more. I wouldn't give you trade boys any cool toys anymore. It gets old seeing all the complaining. Make the game better, focus on the game not the stock market simulator lovers. |
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