Discussion: Auction API name for 'powder' is now 'elements_powder'

Someone should update the API description with this change. Ran into it this morning while doing maintenance. Apologies if this was already known and I'm just late to the party!
I haven't seen anyone else comment about this -though I'm kinda new to the API.

This doesn't work for me, btw.  I just get the list of latest auctions.  I tried different configurations of element_powder, element_powders etc too.  Anyone else have a clue what the value is?

Mind you, I'm using the unauthenticated sandboxy thing so the authenticated one might be doing something different.  Or maybe they're trying to implement the # of uses feature request and have taken it down.
How are you attempting to access the API? What I would do is first check your access, verifying that you are receiving the JSON objects back. Once there, check your categories and make sure that they're a sub key of the main transaction key, i.e. <somearray housing the JSON object>['items'][<transaction ID>]['category'].

What are you using to write your call? I'd love to help, if I can.
Thanks for the reply Pokkit!  I guess it's just me.  I'm using the API explorer ("sandboxy thing" - should have been more specific), so I'm barely writing anything at the moment :) - http://developer.glitch.com/api/explore/#!auctions.list .  I'm using 'category=elements_powder' as the query string.

I guess your access is getting the right response and this one isn't?  Unless I've got something embarrassingly wrong, which is likely too..
So, it looks like this is the issue: http://api.glitch.com/simple/auctions.list?category=powder works. But, when I request all auctions, I get elements_powder back. So, I don't know which is the proper selection. 

I'm a little confused, too. Might be that we're both partially right! :)
Posted this nearly a month ago: http://developer.glitch.com/forum/9568/

I've pretty much given up on api improvements at this point ... 
Thanks for the context, Druin!
It is on the list of api improvements stickied at the top of the forum, so hopefully it will be addressed at some point. ;)
Categories are... bleh. Let's just say "bleh".

We're likely to shift them around a little bit more in the near future; one goal is to align auction categories with the categories we use more generally (eg, in the Encyclopedia, in player inventory listings and so on), for the sake of consistency.

There has been some difficulty with this in the past since certain classes of items (elements, for example) aren't sellable, so the category of "elements and powders" doesn't make a whole lot of sense in the context of auctions.

I'll do my best to provide an update in a new forum thread here before we "pull the trigger" on any more category changes, so that you guys know what's coming.
Typically API's are released as v1, v2, v3 etc, where the changes are made in v2, v2, and so on, and all v1 already-released features are kept in-tact...