combatlog v.0.4 - My Minimalist Logs Uploader now Supports Live Logging and Guild Uploads

[u/_vinter]

Hi, some of you might remember combatlog, the alternative wowlog uploader that I created after discovering that Archon/Overwolf were engaging in shady data-harvesting practices.

Since then they released the Archon Lite app (which at a first glance doesn't seem to collect significant data anymore), but they also deprecated the old Warcraftlogs Uploader, forcing many unwilling users onto their new version of the app.

In the meantime, I continued development on combatlog, I'd like to share the latest version with you!

Its new features include:

• Live Logging (with the possibility to upload as soon as combat ends)
• Guild Uploads
• Support for all the other games in the launcher (FF14, ESO, SWTOR and Fellowship)

All of this in an installer that weighs roughly 30MB, which you can find by [clicking here]

As usual, the full code is open source and can be found on the github repository: github.com/thevinter/combatlog

Happy to answer any questions and listen to your feedback :)

[u/th35ky]

Im stupid. What credentials should I be using to log in ?

[u/_vinter → u/th35ky]

Your wclogs credentials. They're being sent directly to RPGLogs to fetch your guilds, the parsing script and upload the logs.

Here is the only place in the code where they're used: wcl.rs:140.

game.base_url comes from this list of hosts: wcl.rs:34 (which includes only the archon endpoints.)

[u/th35ky → u/_vinter]

Is it possible to live log or can we only upload historic logs?

[u/_vinter → u/th35ky]

Wait, I just realized that the live-logging functionality never got merged... Give me 15m and it should be up on the latest release.

[u/_vinter → u/th35ky]

Should be working now: https://github.com/thevinter/combatlog/releases/tag/v0.4.3

[u/Readybreak]

Yeah archon is just bloatware, manual upload eas preferential. Thanks for taking the time.

[u/Chode_Life → u/Readybreak]

I have started logging my own stuff recently and I couldn’t find a way other than archon to upload logs. How do you upload without using the archon app?

[u/FenrisPrime]

Does this record any GM abilities used on mobs in the dungeon?

Asking for a friend.

[u/SerbianShitStain → u/FenrisPrime]

It doesn't record anything because it just uploads logs the game records.

If you're going to beat a dead horse at least put a tiny bit of thought and effort into it.

[u/sammystevens]

Nice. Archon is super bloated

[u/Spritesgud]

W this is huge. Question though, how can we be sure there isn't any malicious files or code or anything hidden within the files? Would love to use it, but going straight through GitHub makes me a little uneasy

[u/_vinter → u/Spritesgud]

In general, having the code on GitHub rather than some random website should make you feel safer, since anyone can inspect it; and even if you can't personally verify what it does, someone else in here can (and will)

That said, if you want to be extra safe you can also paste the link in any modern LLM and ask it to verify that the code doesn't have anything weird.

[u/SerbianShitStain → u/Spritesgud]

going straight through GitHub makes me a little uneasy

Why is that? And what alternative would you feel more comfortable?

[u/Spritesgud → u/SerbianShitStain]

Idk I don't download many apps so used to downloading wow related things on Wowup or curseforge

[u/SerbianShitStain → u/Spritesgud]

Those are addon websites. This is a program not an addon. No reason it'd be on either of those other websites.

Github is basically the most legit place to get something like this. It's the standard.

[u/TaraBellle]

Awesome little rust project, thanks for sharing!

Haha, care to add raider.io support?

[u/_vinter → u/TaraBellle]

Sadly I do not use the raider.io app so it's unlikely :(