Chat Parser

Chat Parser

Description: This simple chat parser will watch all chats, whispers, says, and yells for text patterns you specify. Then you can dump then out and clear them. This is more a proof of concept on how to monitor chat than anything, in reality you'd probably want to do something more interesting.
How to use: Execute on events (put them all in the event name box, comma-separated): CHAT_MSG_CHANNEL, CHAT_MSG_WHISPER, CHAT_MSG_SAY and CHAT_MSG_YELL.

if (not savedText) then
  savedText = {}
end

-- full regex is supported, see http://www.lua.org/manual/5.0/manual.html#5.3
interestingPatterns = {
  "WTS",
  "%dg",
  "UBRS",
}

for i, pat in interestingPatterns do
  if (string.find(msg, pat)) then
    table.insert(savedText, author..": "..msg)
   end
end

One more script to dump out and clear what the script has captured:

-- show interesting text
DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("Found "..table.getn(savedText).." interesting messages.")
for i, text in savedText do
  DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage(text)
end

-- and reset it
savedText = {}

Login