Getting item information

[crept]

I had an idea of getting items and putting them in a format that eqemu can use. I am curious if this is even feasible. Would it be possible to, say, websuck all the items from Allakhazam's, parse the output, and arrange the information in a format that is useful for eqemu? I did some poking around in the source and as far as I could tell item information is stored in binary form in the DB. I didn't go much beyond that, though.

I know it's possible to get all the items from allakhazams quite easily, since their URL format is pretty simple. I've gotten a few items by hand crafting an URL for wget to download.

I believe if someone could post the format of the binary data in the item DB that would be enough for me to make the determination myself (or even just a header file with the info in it).

Note - if anyone were to write a script to do this, remember to put in a delay between each query so you don't tax their servers unnecessarily.