Comment author:Vaniver
22 February 2016 04:21:20PM
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The following is what I had in mind for that section:
maybe you can submit a DB request to the trike apps team for this data.
There is an API but I think it doesn't have the ability to do everything that we'd like it to. See this issue as an example of a missing feature.
But if you have the ability, building that feature and submitting it as a pull request is better than doing it the long way (since it also helps everyone else who wants to do that sort of thing in the future).
Comment author:Lumifer
22 February 2016 05:14:35PM
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building that feature
A feature that allows anyone on the 'net to bang on your backend database is not something to be taken lightly :-)
I think LW first needs a coherent API spec, then a framework (including thing like auth tokens, rate limiters, etc.), and only then specific abilities to e.g. ask for all comments of a particular user.
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Yeah, I recommend against scraping LW that way instead of making a DB request / building a page that makes that DB request.
Can one? In general, is there an available (and working) API to LW?
The following is what I had in mind for that section:
There is an API but I think it doesn't have the ability to do everything that we'd like it to. See this issue as an example of a missing feature.
But if you have the ability, building that feature and submitting it as a pull request is better than doing it the long way (since it also helps everyone else who wants to do that sort of thing in the future).
A feature that allows anyone on the 'net to bang on your backend database is not something to be taken lightly :-)
I think LW first needs a coherent API spec, then a framework (including thing like auth tokens, rate limiters, etc.), and only then specific abilities to e.g. ask for all comments of a particular user.