Premade Groups Filter helps you limit the search results of the LFG Premade Groups tool. You can filter by difficulty or for groups with a specific composition of members, e.g. one tank, no heals and 3 dps. Filtering is done using a separate window next to the list of groups. Advanced users are able to enter powerful filter expressions to find exactly what they are looking for.
Examples of what can easily be found with Premade Groups Filter:
- mythic dungeon groups that still need a healer
- raids that have not yet defeated any bosses and already have more than 10 members and an item level requirement of 850
- PvP groups with an honor level requirement and voice chat
Help
Other addons providing data
The following addons can be used together with Premade Groups Filter and provide data for additional keywords:
- Premade Regions: a useful addon for Oceanic players showing region information in the group and applicants listings
- Raider.IO: group leader rating can be used for filtering groups
Support
You think the addon is really great and want to support its development?
- report bugs and include steps how to reproduce the bug (screenshots also help a lot!)
- if you're good at programming, send a pull request on GitHub
- send me game time
Translation
- thanks to yuk6196 for koKR
- merci à cacahuete586 pour frFR
- thanks to gaspy10 for zhTW
- Благодарность IngZG за ruRU
- gracias a peti446 por esES
I want to filter out the f***ing BOE groups. What do I need to type to do that?
In reply to deplete1:
You can’t filter by text, because Blizzard blocks addons from reading the text. Noctisilva suggested age < 30 below as spammers tend to have long running group searches.
what is CHI mean where?
In reply to dnjaxxass:
Chicago, US
I love the addon, but I'd like it if the filter didn't show up by default next to the lfg winodw. Is there a way to hide the filter until you open the window manually?
In reply to Hitaku:
No, not at the moment. Your may however unlock the window and move it to a position where it suits you better.
Advanced filters for dungeons are not showing all dungeons. I don't know if this is long lasting problem but I noticed it this week. If I put just "nw" in the textbox, I may get 10 NW groups. If I take that off and just search "necrotic" in regular search bar, I can get 30 groups.
I don't know if addon is the one to blame, but something is off and only part of the groups are showing thru the filters. I'd love to use regular search for keynumber and this addon's box for specific dungeon but now I know I'm missing out on seeing majority of the groups thru that technique.
Anyway very useful addon hope you can see if there's anything in addon's end to fix this!
In reply to Ougaa:
For an explanation, please read this FAQ article. When searching for a single dungeon like Spires of Ascension, it is best to use e.g. “15 spires” in Blizzards default search bar. Blizzard detects part of the official dungeon name and filters for it on the server side. You cannot use abbreviations however.
In reply to baerenhard:
I guess I won't need the addon then when searching for a specific key (14 15 16 spires works indeed). Thank for educating me on how the basic LFG works :)
Is there an option to not see the oceania servers? they generate a lot of latency with my connection, ty
In reply to レクイエム:
Yes, install addon Premade Regions. See FAQ and List of Keywords.
For everything that is holy, please add a "WTS" filter. Thanks.
In reply to gfbs85:
I would love to and this was also already part of the addon in Legion, however Blizzard blocked access for addons to group names and comments way back in the BfA prepatch.
In reply to gfbs85:
Blizzard code wont let you search in group names.
However, just add:
age < 30
to the manual filters.
This will filter any group that's older than 30 minutes. WTS groups are usually hours if not days old.
Hi. I read the FAQ and went out to find a workaround, but the truth is I dont understand LUA on an addon context. What is the api you used to call to get the group name? There is no other functions that may return the group name with all the data related? The WTS plague is awful these days. Like I need to report 15 entries to clean out the results. Anything to filters those entries will be a bless.
Thank you for the addon. I've been using it since... I cant recall. xD
In reply to Yharos:
You cannot filter by group name, because Blizzard blocked access for addons to group names and comments way back in the BfA prepatch (also stated in the FAQ). You may however filter by group leader. I think there are addons trying to build up lists of spammer character names (I also created one but you have to add names to the LUA source files manually), but spammers can just create a new character. So reporting to Blizzard is still the best option.
In reply to baerenhard:
Can you, please, be more specific? What do you mean when you that Blizzard "blocked access for addons to group names and comments"? Blocked how? Did they remove a Lua function? Did they restrict the use of the function to Blizzard-signed code-only? Clearly the addon can be called out-of-combat, so that's not the issue...
In reply to wowrodmer:
There is a concept in the WoW UI called protected strings. As far as I know, it was first used for the BattleTag shown in the social window (keyboard o) to prevent addons from reidentifying and profiling you by your BattleTag when being on different characters. It was later extended to the premade groups names and comments. It is also used in the community chat windows to e.g. prevent creating a permanent chat history. I assume the reasons for protecting group names also have legal aspects.
It works the following way: Whenever you access the premade group name in an addon, you will only get the character sequence |Kr14xxxxxxx|k instead of the real string. If you print the string however, it is replaced by the actual text. It works like a formatting. In fact colored strings are encoded in a similar way: |cFFFF0000Hello|r will print Hello in red. So protected strings are like a reference or pointer to the actual string which is evaluated at the latest point possible, i.e. after any addon code and right before sending it to the graphic engine.
Have a look at the WoWpedia page about string formatting (scroll down to the section about protected strings). Hope I could clarify why it is really impossible to access the group names within an addon.
In reply to baerenhard:
Interesting. I didn't know about protected strings. Thank you for the link. So I guess the keys-to-strings dictionary is what's not available to addons?
In reply to wowrodmer:
Exactly. I assume that dictionary resides in the C++ part of the WoW client.