Recent Notice
- Add support for
PTR
andBETA
mode, see switch modes - Now
ls
only prints short message, if you want detailed message, usewowa ls -l
- Add support for TukUI.
wowa add 0-tukui
,wowa search tukui:elvui
- Add support for WoW Classic, use
wowa switch
to switch mode between_classic_
and_retail_
, usewowa ls
to check which mode you are in. When switched to_classic_
mode, wowa will download the correct addon version that matches 1.13.x - curse, wowinterface, github, tukui are supported
- node version:
WoWA stands for World of Warcraft Assistant, it is designed to help managing WoW addons, uploading WCL logs, etc.
There used to be some command line manager for WoW addons in the past, but are mostly out of maintaince at this time. A list of these projects can be found in the related prjects section.
As comparing to these projects, WoWA offers serveral advantages:
- Better CLI interface: colorful and meaningful
- Concurrency: when installing or updating, WoWA can take advantage of multi-processing
- wowaads.json file: this is the file where WoWA stores addon information. Unlike other projects, WoWA stores this file in the WTF folder. This design benifits people when they want to backup their WoW setting. Backing up one WTF folder is enough
npm install -g wowa
The WoW path configuration file is located at %APPDATA%/wowa/wow_path.txt
on Windows, and ~/.wowa/wow_path.txt
on macOS or Linux.
Normally wowa would remind you to edit this file if it cannot find the game at its default location.
To install an addon
wowa add deadly-boss-mods # install dbm from curse
wowa add curse:deadly-boss-mods # install dbm from curse
wowa add mmoui:8814-DeadlyBossMods # install dbm from wowinterface
wowa add 8814-DeadlyBossMods # install dbm from wowinterface
wowa add deadlybossmods/deadlybossmods # install dbm from github
wowa add bigwigsmods/bigwigs/classic # install bigwigs (classic branch) from github
wowa add antiwinter/dlt # install dlt from github
To search an addon
wowa search dbm # search for dbm automatically
wowa search mmoui:dbm # search for dbm only from wowinterface
Note: that WoWA manages addons by keys (keys are provided by curse) not by addon names, sometimes they are different. If you are not sure a key for an addon, you can search that addon by some fuzzy name, and the search result provides the correct key to use.
If use wowa for the first time, you need to import your local addon. Then wowa can manage them for you.
wowa import
wowa sw switch between _retail_ and _classic_
wowa sw --ptr switch mode to: retail PTR
wowa sw --beta switch mode to: retail BETA
wowa sw --retail switch mode to: retail formal
wowa sw --retail-ptr switch mode to: retail PTR
wowa sw --retail-beta switch mode to: retail BETA
wowa sw --classic switch mode to: classic formal
wowa sw --classic-ptr switch mode to: classic PTR
wowa sw --classic-beta switch mode to: classic BETA
- layday/instawow -
- erikabp123/ClassicAddonManager -
- AcidWeb/CurseBreaker -
- Saionaro/wow-addons-updater -
- ogri-la/wowman -
- vargen2/Addon -
- ephraim/lcurse -
- nazarov-tech/wowa -
- Lund259/WoW-Addon-Manager -
- OpenAddOnManager/OpenAddOnManager -
- vargen2/addonmanager -
- qwezarty/wow-addon-manager -
- WorldofAddons/worldofaddons -
- sysworx/wowam -
- kuhnertdm/wow-addon-updater -
- JonasKnarbakk/GWAM -
- Sumolari/WAM -
- wttw/wowaddon -
- DayBr3ak/wow-better-cli -
- acdtrx/wowam -
- zekesonxx/wow-cli -
- SeriousBug/WoWutils -
- Support projects on wowinterface.com
- Support projects on github.com
- Game version detection
- Add test cases
- Support projects on tukui.org
- Support WoW Classic !
- Import existing addons
- Check wowa updates
- Optimize color scheme
- Shrink size of package
- Support releasing UI (addons list, together with settings) to github.com
- Support backing up to github.com
- Support restoring from github.com
- Support uploading to warcraftlogs.com