GW2 tracker tool

A small software to precisely evaluate how many gold pieces a user is making during a play session.

This app aims at fixing a limitation of the GW2Efficiency website for computing your gains over a play session (or more). The way GW2Efficiency works, it computes the value of your account before and after, and outputs the difference. This is problematic if you have a lot of item which price fluctuates a lot, say Mystical Coins. The change in price before and after your play session will be present in the GW2Efficiency difference, and may completely swallow other sources, for instance what you earned during your play.

Our software compute a difference of inventory, that is it figures out which items, resources etc. have changed during you play session. Then it computes the total prices of items that actually changed, ignoring items you have neither gained nor consumed. This avoids the above problem and reports the actual amount you earned.

Installation

Bundled version

1. Download the zip file of the latest version, corresponding to your plateform, from the release page
2. Unzip the compressed folder wherever you'd like to install GW2 tracker
3. Start the executable to run the tool. The executable is named the same as the zip file (without the .zip), e.g. gw2_tracker-v0.1.0-linux

Development version

GW2 tracker is developped using python 3.10 and uses poetry for dependency management. You'll need to install python 3.10 or higher first, and poetry. We advise using a virtual environment, which poetry will do by default.

1. Clone this repository locally
2. Activate your virtual environment if necessary
3. Run poetry run poetry install to install the tools and its dependencies in the virtual environment
4. Run poetry run gw2_tracker to run GW2 tracke from the environment

Usage

The text with a white background at the top of the UI displays useful messages on the state of the tool.

1. Enter an API key for your account inside the field. Make sure the key has the permissions to access your wallets, inventory and characters. Click on the Use key button to validate your key.
2. Before starting your play session, click Get start snapshot to record the content of your account prior to play. The content is saved on disc, so you can compute the gains accross multiple play sessions.
3. After your play session, click on Compute gains to retrieve a new snapshot and compute the difference. The content and value of the difference is displayed in the central area.