How to Build a World of Warcraft Bot using AppleScript in 15 minutes

I was tinkering around with some apple script the other night and was blown away at how much power Apple's System Events program gives you to automate literally anything program that runs on a Mac.

To prove the point here is a simple World of Warcraft bot I created with a few lines of code to start wow , log in , walk from a merchant to a mob area, kill, loot, return and sell all your gray items.

Note to use apple's System Events program you have to enable access for assistive devices.


You're going to need to regular wow macros for this to work.

One to simulate a shift right mouse click to autoloot corpses. Doesn't need to be placed in a slot.

/script SetBinding("l", "TURNORACTION"); SaveBindings(GetCurrentBindingSet()) 

And the other to automatically sell your gray items to any merchant, in this example I placed this macro in slot 4.

/script for bag = 0,4,1 do for slot = 1, GetContainerNumSlots(bag), 1 do local name = GetContainerItemLink(bag,slot); if name and string.find(name,"ff9d9d9d") then DEFAULT_CHAT_FRAME:AddMessage("- Selling "..name); UseContainerItem(bag,slot) end; end;end 

Then just kick this script off in Script Editor and center your mouse on the screen.

    1  # Eigenclass Dec 2008
    2  # start the app
    3  # or bring it to the front if it's already open
    4  tell application "World of Warcraft"
    5     activate
    6  end tell
    7  
    8  # send messages to the app using System Events.
    9  tell application "System Events"
   10  tell process "World of Warcraft"
   11    #repeat indefinitely
   12    repeat
   13      # assume you are facing a merchant to begin the flow
   14     
   15      # back up .75 units
   16      key down "s"
   17      delay 1.56 * 0.75
   18      key up "s"
   19     
   20      # strafe left 1 unit
   21      key down "q"
   22      delay 1
   23      key up "q"
   24     
   25      # move forward 3 units
   26      key down "w"
   27      delay 1 * 3
   28      key up "w"
   29     
   30      # target nearest enemy
   31      key down tab
   32      delay 1
   33      key up tab
   34     
   35      # attach it 10 times.
   36      # this assumes you have a long range
   37      # attack in slot 2 (key code 19).
   38      repeat 10 times
   39        key code 19
   40        delay 2
   41      end repeat
   42     
   43      # autoloot the corpse using the macro
   44      # we bound to the "l" key
   45      keystroke "l" using {shift down}
   46     
   47      # backup 3 units
   48      key down "s"
   49      delay 1.56 * 3
   50      key up "s"
   51     
   52      # strafe right 1 unit
   53      key down "e"
   54      delay 1
   55      key up "e"
   56     
   57      # move forward .75 units
   58      key down "w"
   59      delay 1 * 0.75
   60      key up "w"
   61     
   62      # open the merchant dialog using the macro
   63      # we bound to the "l" key
   64      keystroke "l" using {command down}
   65      delay 2
   66     
   67      # auto sell all gray items using the macro
   68      # we bound to the number 4 (key code 21)
   69      key code 21
   70      delay 2
   71     
   72    end repeat
   73   
   74  end tell
   75 end tell
   76 

Watch the power of GUI scripting in action!