WarframePrimeHelper

Project Overview

Selling a few Prime parts mid-session usually means breaking your flow to look each one up on Warframe Market. WarframePrimeHelper goes fully local with OCR instead: press a hotkey to capture the drop-list region of the game screen, let RapidOCR read the part names, then query Warframe Market prices in a system notification or a small always-on window. It is a small open-source Python tool built around a Tkinter window and a bilingual item dictionary, which its own script can generate from the Warframe Market API.

One keypress in game, and prices for your drops report right back.

Item	Value
Form	Python desktop utility (run from source)
Stack	RapidOCR + Pillow + Tkinter
Data source	Warframe Market /v2/items API
Platform	Windows
License	Unspecified

How It Works

• Hotkey capture: alt+q triggers a grab of a fixed screen region (500,400 to 1400,460 by default, adjustable)
• OCR recognition: RapidOCR reads the drop text locally, splitting on spaces to extract item names
• Part mapping: a built-in table maps Chinese part names like blueprint, receiver, blade, and neuroptics to English
• Price query: recognized names hit Warframe Market, results pop a system notification and list in the window with caching

Key Files

File	Purpose
main.py	Headless build: hotkey capture, OCR, notification quotes
main_window.py	Tkinter GUI build: window, price cache, part mapping
make_dict.py	Generates the bilingual dictionary from the Warframe Market API
fetch_dict.py / parse_local_wiki.py	Fetches Wiki data to build items.json
wfm_dictionary_old.json / items.json	Local item database files

Quick Start

1. Install the Python deps: keyboard, Pillow, rapidocr-onnxruntime, plyer, requests
2. Run make_dict.py to generate wfm_dictionary.json, configure a proxy first if needed (default 127.0.0.1:7897)
3. Point SCAN_BBOX at your screen's drop-list location
4. Run main_window.py, then press alt+q in game to capture, recognize, and query

Environment

Item	Requirement
OS	Windows (screen capture and keyboard hooks)
Python	3.x with OCR and imaging libraries
Network	Access to the Warframe Market API, proxy-friendly
OCR model	RapidOCR model loads on first run

Notes

• Personal project: the README is minimal, behavior follows the source, and scripts iterate from wf1 through wf9
• Region depends on resolution: the capture box is hard-coded in pixels, adjust it when resolution or UI layout changes
• Dictionary first: generate or prepare wfm_dictionary.json before first use, otherwise lookups come back empty
• API limits: the Warframe Market API may rate-limit or change, the scripts build in waits and retries