Warframe Public Export (DE)
Digital Extremes' official public data endpoint that exports Warframe's game data (weapons, warframes, mods, relics, drops) as localized JSON for third-party tools.
Panoramica
Warframe Public Export (formerly "Mobile Export") is a read-only, unauthenticated data endpoint operated by Digital Extremes that distributes the game's internal data to the official Warframe Companion mobile app, the Arsenal Twitch Extension, and the game client itself. Clients first fetch an LZMA-compressed, language-specific index from origin.warframe.com, which lists content-hashed manifest filenames; the actual JSON manifests (weapons, warframes, companions, mods/rivens, blueprints, resources, relics, arcanes, star-chart nodes, cosmetics) and image assets are then served from content.warframe.com's CDN. Because each file name ends in a 26-character content hash that changes on every update, clients can cache assets permanently but must re-poll the index to detect changes. It supports all of Warframe's officially supported languages, localizing names, descriptions, and level stats. It is the authoritative upstream source that most Warframe third-party data tools and APIs ultimately derive from.
Ideale per: Developers and data maintainers building Warframe third-party tools, apps, or wikis who need ground-truth game data straight from the source; not a tool players interact with directly.
Funzioni principali
- Official first-party data source maintained by Digital Extremes (highest authority/accuracy)
- Read-only and unauthenticated - no API key, no account, no login required
- Content-addressed hashing: filenames carry a 26-char hash so assets are permanently cacheable via DE's CDN
- Two-step access: LZMA-compressed index at origin.warframe.com, then JSON manifests at content.warframe.com/PublicExport/Manifest/
- Broad coverage: weapons, warframes, companions, mods/rivens, blueprints, resources, relics, arcanes, star-chart nodes, cosmetics
- Full localization across all officially supported Warframe languages
- ExportManifest.json maps each item's uniqueName to a textureLocation for retrieving image assets
Pro e contro
- Authoritative, first-party data straight from Digital Extremes - most accurate possible source
- Completely free, no API key or authentication required
- Excellent caching model thanks to content-addressed (hashed) filenames served over DE's CDN
- Full multi-language localization for names, descriptions, and stats
- Covers the vast majority of game item/content categories plus image asset locations
- Raw JSON is non-standard/malformed and needs correction before use (drives community cleanup mirrors)
- Sparse official documentation; developers rely on the community wiki and reverse-engineering
- LZMA-compressed index and frequently changing content hashes add integration friction
- Coverage gaps exist - some data is missing entirely, which is why 'export-plus' supersets exist
- Not usable by regular players; strictly a developer/data-pipeline resource
- No SLA, versioning, or change notifications - structure can shift with game updates
Opinione della community
Among Warframe developers, Public Export is respected as the authoritative source of truth and is the upstream that community APIs (warframestat.us, WFCD, warframe-public-export cleanups) are built on. However, the raw format draws consistent criticism for being awkward to consume: the LZMA index, frequently changing content hashes, malformed/non-standard JSON needing correction, sparse documentation, and gaps in coverage. Those gaps are precisely why community mirrors and enhanced projects like calamity-inc's warframe-public-export (cleaned JSON) and warframe-public-export-plus ("everything missing in Public Export and more") exist and see steady use.
Da Reddit
Da Reddit · r/Warframe →Recensioni e valutazioni
- Warframe Forums (General) - "Please make the Public Export JSON files less painful to deal with"
“Developer-facing thread requesting DE improve the Public Export format, reflecting the common complaint that the raw JSON manifests are non-standard and awkward to parse and clean.”
- Warframe Forums (Players helping Players) - "I Just want my data"
“Forum thread on accessing Warframe data, part of ongoing community discussion around obtaining game data via the Public Export.”
- GitHub - calamity-inc/warframe-public-export (cleaned mirror of the official export)
“"All JSON files from Warframe's Public Export in a clean format. Updated automatically." Notes that corrections are needed to make the official JSON usable, evidencing the raw export's rough edges.”
- GitHub - calamity-inc/warframe-public-export-plus (enhanced superset)
“"The most complete data source for all your Warframe needs and interests. Contains everything missing in Public Export and more" - highlights coverage gaps in the official export.”
- WARFRAME Wiki - Public Export (official documentation)
“Community/wiki documentation of the endpoints, index/manifest structure, content-hash caching behavior, and localization support, used as the de-facto reference for developers.”