L10n repository tags are nice to avoid comitting translation work, but it becomes a problem to test a release *before* tagging it (so, before generating the zipfile), for example to check that there is no missing translation phrase. I tried to write a simple wget/append script to fetch l10n (see below), but it is not usable as such: what is appended is a complete HTML page, not just LUA code.

Please provide direct access to the export API (via GET rather than POST if possible) which would render a raw output.

fetch_translation.sh

#!/bin/sh

DOT_CONF="${HOME}/.fetch_translation"

if [ -e "$DOT_CONF" ]; then
  . "$DOT_CONF"
fi

if [ "z$API_KEY" == z ]; then
  echo "API_KEY is not set, cannot continue."
  exit -1
fi

if [ $# -ne 1 ]; then
  echo "Usage: $0 <addon name>"
  exit -1
fi

ADDON="$1"

for LANGUAGE in enUS frFR deDE koKR esMX ruRU zhCN esES zhTW; do
  FILENAME="${LANGUAGE}.lua"
  if [ -e "$FILENAME" ]; then
    echo "Updating ${FILENAME}..."
    cp "$FILENAME" "${FILENAME}.org" || exit -1
    svn revert "$FILENAME" || exit -1
    wget -q -O - --post-data="language=${LANGUAGE}&format=lua_additive_table&handle_unlocalized=blank" "http://www.wowace.com/addons/${ADDON}/localization/export/?api-key=${API_KEY}" >> "$FILENAME" || exit -1
  else
    echo "Missing file ${FILENAME}, skipping"
  fi
done