Finding a raid in chat is really annoying. Trade, Global, General, LFG — every channel is full of the same stuff: boost ads, guild recruitments, item links, drama, walls of Russian or German text. Real LFM posts get buried under reposts in seconds, the same raid is announced by three different officers, and even if you catch one, you still don't know if it matches your GS or what roles they need.
It got on my nerves, so I wrote an addon that filters and groups it.
LFG Scanner watches /global, /general, /trade, /world and the LFG channels for raid LFM postings and shows every active one in a single sortable table - instead of having to read every line as it scrolls past.
What it does
- One row per raid. Same posting from multiple channels or officers collapses into one entry.
- Hover a row for a tooltip with the full original posting, all posters, channels it was seen on, and post count.
- Tabs across the top filter by content (ICC25, ICC10, TOC, RS, VOA, Other) with live counts.
- Click a row to open a normal /w to the poster.
- Age column shows time since the poster's last message. After 2 min the row goes inactive
(dimmed); after 5 min of silence it drops off the table. - Disc column shows if the raid requires Discord (yes / no / ?), auto-detected from the post.
- Group column shows current raid fill (21/25) when the poster mentions it.
- Needs column shows which roles are still missing (tank, heal, melee, ranged, dps), when extractable from the post.
- Flags column: A = achievement required, R = reserves on bosses.
- Three quick-action buttons per row send a canned whisper instantly:
- D - "discord required?"
- R - "any reserves?"
- G - "min gs?"
Install
- Grab the latest ZIP from the Releases page.
- Unzip into your client's Interface/AddOns/ folder.
- Log in (or /reload). On Warmane, make sure "Load out of date AddOns" is checked on the character select screen.
How to use
After login the LFG Scanner window opens automatically. Drag the title bar to move it, grab the
bottom-right corner to resize - the layout is remembered between sessions.
Code:
/lfg toggle window
/lfg show show window
/lfg hide hide window
/lfg reset clear the active-raid table
/lfg stats print the number of tracked raids
/lfg resetpos restore default frame position and size
Honesty disclaimer: it's not perfect yet. The classifier still misses a posting once in a while or mis-tags something - the rules are based on a sample I logged from Icecrown prime time and I'm still expanding the dictionaries. That said, I've been using it for a few days and it's already saving me a lot of time when looking for a raid - it's good enough that I figured it was worth sharing.
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