wowaddon

Manager for World of Warcraft addons

Features

• Install addons from Curse and TukUI
• Uninstall addons
• Update addons
• Search for new addons
• List installed addons, showing which are "out of date"
• Show addon metadata
• Show which directories are used by which addons
• No complex setup, it discovers your current set of addons

Installation

Download the file from the github release page, for your operating system, unzip it and put it somewhere on your path. (If you're on Windows you can open a command prompt, cd to the directory where you unzipped it and run it from there.)

Run wowaddon environment. If it can't find your World of Warcraft installation in the normal places you can set the environment variable WOWDIR to override it.

Usage

To install Fishing Buddy run wowaddon install fishingbuddy. The name needed is the one used for the addon at the source you're fetching the addon from or returned by wowaddon search. For addons installed from Curse, it's the name you see in the URL of the page, such as deadly-boss-mods or weakauras-2.

To list the installed addons run wowaddon list.

To update everything that needs to be updated run wowaddon update.

To sync with new addons if they've been installed manually, or to create your first configuration file run wowaddon bootstrap.

To search for new addons for your druid to install run wowaddon search druid.

NAME:
   wowaddon - Install WoW addons

USAGE:
   wowaddon [global options] command [command options] [arguments...]
   
VERSION:
   0.7.0
   
AUTHOR(S):
   Steve Atkins <steve@blighty.com> 
   
COMMANDS:
     install, i         Install addon `NAME`
     update, u          Update all addons
     search, s          Search for new addons
     uninstall          Uninstall addon `NAME`
     reinstall          Reinstall all addons
     checkupdate        List addons that can be updated
     folders, list, ls  List addons and their folders
     blame              Show which addon created a folder
     environment, env   Show environment
     info               Show information about installed addons
     fullinfo           Show toc metadata about installed addons
     bootstrap          Create a configuration file from existing addons
     lock               Lock an addon so it won't be automatically updated
     unlock             Unlock a locked addon, so it will be automatically updated
     help, h            Shows a list of commands or help for one command

GLOBAL OPTIONS:
   --wowdir value, --dir value, -d value  WoW base directory [$WOWDIR]
   --config value, -c value               Use an alternate configuration file [$WOW_ADDON_CONFIG]
   --cache value                          Use an alternate cache directory [$WOW_ADDON_CACHE]
   --useragent value                      Use this useragent for http requests [$WOW_ADDON_USERAGENT]
   --color, --colour                      Use coloured output [$WOW_ADDON_COLOUR]
   --help, -h                             show help
   --version, -v                          print the version
   

Configuration files

All configuration is stored in your World of Warcraft base directory.

The addons installed and managed by wowaddon are stored in the addons.json file, with a backup copy stored in addons.json.bak

The catalog of known addons (used for bootstrapping and searching) is stored in addoncatalog.json.zip and addoncatalog.json. This will be fetched and updated automatically.

Compilation

Install pre-requisites and build

go get github.com/wttw/wowaddon
go install

This will create a single binary, wowaddon or wowaddon.exe that can be copied to any machine and run with no other prerequisites.

Inspiration

This tool was inspired by wow-cli, a similar tool written in Javascript/node.

Issues

While it's tested on OS X, it isn't tested with a real WoW installation (I don't have the disk space for that).

License

Two-clause BSD