This is a script designed for the Lost Ark (NA/EU) release that monitors the in-game market to automatically transcribe the item names and return its corresponding prices.

I consider myself a data-driven person who thrives on efficiency. Making spreadsheets on various aspects of games such as ability damage modifier % for the best DPS cycle, optimal routes to complete weeklies and dailies to save time, tracking in-game currency exchange rates to get the best bang for the buck.. you get the idea.

Thus, birthed the idea of an auction house scraper for viewing item price history. I was not too satisfied with the limited options the in-game market offers for this idea for obvious reasons. As such, I decided to make my own sloppy implementation of market API.

1. Load into Lost Ark without any menus open
2. Modify function in main.py as needed
3. Run main.py
4. Let it process the images for a few minutes
5. Log data to InfluxDB and manipulate data from there.

Some ideas include tracking the trend of an item to make a more informed decision on the market and/or create charts/graphs of multiple items to create meaningful data. Scraping other region's market for how much things are supposed to cost is another idea.

• getGoldToCrystalsRate() returns the going rate of 1 blue crystal to gold
• getEngravingData() returns {'itemName': [avgPrice, recentPrice, lowestPrice], ...}
• Shortest path from A -> B *WIP

It takes screenshots of multiple areas of interests (e.g. Engraving Recipes, Enhancement Materials etc..) and extracts only the relevant information to return a dictionary of lists corresponding to the Avg. Day Price, Recent Price and Lowest Price.

• openCV-Python
• pyautogui
• pytesseract
• influxdb-client

Ensure tesseract.exe is in C:\\Program Files\\Tesseract-OCR\\tesseract.exe. Binaries are found here.

• All values are hardcoded to 1440p due to how it scrapes the data. Other resolutions could be supported by scaling it linearly but untested.