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# Discussion: Feature Request Thread

We're super excited to see so many feature requests!
Help us keep track of your awesome ideas by posting new feature requests here.
To start this topic off right, I scoured our forums and compiled a list of existing requests:
Outstanding requests

- Number of visits and last visited, through identity scope added to locations.streetinfo
- Sold, unsold, canceled, or still running auctions represented in auction.status
- Uses for powder added to auction.list
- Wears and uses added to players.inventory
- Ability to purchase auctions with auction.purchase
- Activity Feed reading & writing
- Ability to sort/ move inventory items
- List of online players
- Item lookup by classid
- Images last updated timestamp in player.GetAnimations
- players.inventory extended to house cupboards and garden
- Ability to search auctions by class_tsid
- Given item tsid, list of recipes that can be made
- Given recipe, list required skill, ingredients, energy, mood, time & output
- Add mailboxes & mail dispatch to locations.streetinfo
- Joining of location.getHub, location.getStreet, and location.streetInfo calls
- Ability to query street resources
- Ability to access stream of "public" game activity
- API access beyond web app
- Add date a player joined Glitch for a "Glitch Birthday"
- Add an auctions.priceCheck method which return price bounds/averages for items.
- Methods for upgrades - get list of purchased upgrades, info about all upgrades

Implemented requests

- Favor points by giant added to players.stats - this is returned by giants.getFavor
- Player's friends added to players.fullInfo or a separate method call for a player's friends with avatar details - returned by friends.list
- Ability to buy and sell housing - obsolete
- players.achievements endpoint to view player earned achievements - state information is returned to the achievements.* methods when authenticated

Thank you for working with us to expand and improve the Glitch API.
Posted 14 months ago by pickledrelic | Permalink
a timestamp images were last updated at in player.GetAnimations (so we can cache them)
Posted 14 months ago by Fusspawn | Permalink
Extend players.inventory to see what people have stored in their cupboards at home
Search auctions by class_tsid
Fix auctions/inventory to use same categories as each other
Posted 14 months ago by dopiaza | Permalink
Extend players.inventory to read inventory items in a player's house. Ideally include cupboard, floor, yard, and crops.
Posted 14 months ago by Kraftmann | Permalink
Sorry if I have missed this being mentioned elsewhere, but I'm new to the developer area... since I don't see it listed here, can I request we get an items.getList that we could use? Categorical filter could/would be helpful similar to the auctions. It's not something that would need to be hit repeatably by most systems, I don't think, but simply having access to the info at all would be helpful - most people I've seen are using screen-scraping methods to try and pull info from the website's encyclopedia, which seems less than ideal :) cheers!
Posted 14 months ago by Chuck Stone | Permalink
+1s to auction.status, powder uses, auction.purchase, inventory management
+1s to fixing auction categories: category=powder powders element_powder element_compound NONE select Powders - either 0 records or all. Item/Auction normalization would be good, too.
Posted 14 months ago by Yarrow | Permalink
New endpoint: recipes - given an item TSID, list the recipes that can be made. Given a recipe, list it's requirements: skill, ingredients, energy, mood, time, and it's outputs: result, XP, mood and limits.
Posted 14 months ago by Yarrow | Permalink
locations.streetinfo: add mailboxes, mail dispatch. Maybe crab location?
Posted 14 months ago by Yarrow | Permalink
The OAuth authorization endpoint simply redirecting with valid credentials if the application has already been previously authorized (as opposed to displaying the permission dialog every time) would be quite nice.
Other than that, I think the major points have been covered in this thread. :)
Actually, scratch that; realty-related endpoints would be quite nice as well: currently for sale and already sold, perhaps filtered by area and possibly block number, and/or price. The ability to buy and sell realty through the API would be nice as well.
Also, something which seems to have a good amount of support as well is a players.achievements endpoint to view the achievements a player has gathered (since this is publicly accessible information anyway)
Posted 14 months ago by rintaun | Permalink
Can we get access to what items someone has in their house or in cabinets?
Posted 14 months ago by dacount | Permalink
What I would really like is a location.getWorld call that would basically do a join of all the location.getHub, location.getStreet, and location.streetInfo calls at once. There are plenty of times where a developer would want this global information, and right now, we need to iterate through them all. It is slow since we are rate-limited, and adds overhead. Since this is a common task for resource-finding and route-planning, it makes sense to include all of this info in one call. I would also rate-limit this call to once every 10 seconds or so or more. It really is the type of thing that most developers should cache and run off of their cache.
Also, to reduce calls to the location.streetInfo calls, give us a way to do queries on street resources. For instance a locations.findResource that would take a resource_tsid (this would be new) for each of the resources (like cherry trees, piggys, chickens, patches, etc.), and return a list of the streets that they appear on.
I would also suggest a Jabber bridge for the in-game chat. It would be nice to be able to chat with Glitch friends from our favorite Jabber-ready chat client.
Posted 14 months ago by Ustice | Permalink
Request: A way to access the API from a desktop app instead of a web app. Currently, there is no way to authenticate to your oauth2 system without having a web page to redirect to. Having a way to tell the oauth2 system that you don't *have* a web page to redirect to, and the oauth2 system just presenting the authorization code to the user directly (for copy/paste into the application), would allow a wider programming audience to access this API.
Posted 14 months ago by Darque | Permalink
A huge +1 for looking up an item by its class_tsid.
The hack I'm using to get around this right now isn't ideal. I have to scrape an item's page in the Encyclopedia.
That wouldn't be a big deal if the class_tsid for an item was identical to its URL in the Encyclopedia.
Let's look at a Musicblock. The class_tsid is "musicblock_d_green_03" but its URL ends in "musicblock-dg-3". Not the worst problem since there's a distinct pattern. I can easily determine the URL based on the class_tsid.
Now let's look at a Showy Sapphire. Its class_tsid is "gem_sapphire". Its URL ends in "showy-sapphire". In this case, I need to know that a "gem_sapphire" is "Showy" - I can't simply deduce what its URL would be on its class_tsid alone.
Without the ability to look up an item through the API I'll have to build a translation table. Given that I can't simply programmatically guess every URL to scrape, building this is going to be tedious.
So there you go. Big fat +1 to item lookup.
Posted 14 months ago by me | Permalink
@Darque How other OAuth services that need to be accessed from desktop applications -- like Twitter -- handle this is to present the user with an "authorization code" (usually a number) which they then enter into the application. The application then requests the token as normal; basically, the authorization code is equivalent to the "redirect_url".
+1 to desktop app OAuth support!
Posted 14 months ago by rintaun | Permalink
Maybe I don't fully understand it, but you have the ability to set "Auth Mode" right? Where you can have Code (server-side) or Token (client-side).. the latter gives your user a code that they need to insert.
Posted 14 months ago by Princess Sarah | Permalink
ok, this isn't really an API request, but is there a search feature for the forums? maybe I'm just blind - it's late - if I'm just missing it please splank me and point me in the right direction.
I tried starting a new topic, but kept getting a 404 when I submitted the form :(
Posted 14 months ago by yiddle | Permalink
Any chance of getting player.achievements anytime soon?(!). I'm planning to add a categorised view of achievements to dopiaza's startling fecundity site and it would be soooooo great to be able to highlight the achievements of the authenticated glitch.... I know there is a grease-monkey script for this but it doesn't categorise achievements and it doesn't work for everyone (e.g. me, since I use Chrome!)
Posted 14 months ago by geekybird | Permalink
Adding API ability for information regarding player written notes would be wonderful.
Having access to the title, text, author, date, and current location of a note would be a great place to start.
Posted 14 months ago by a lifted pixel | Permalink
Regarding notes: writing notes automatically would be nice as well, although that reaches pretty far into the game interface.
Posted 13 months ago by Yarrow | Permalink
I'd like to have more access into the game's static tables. Recipes are a good start, but I'd also like to know things like: how much XP is it to a given level? What items are available at what vendors?
Stuff like this I could make my own table of, and then hard-code into my app, but it's better overall if I can (at least periodically) query the glitch servers and get the very latest.
Posted 13 months ago by agent86 | Permalink
+1 to item recipes!
Posted 13 months ago by Pokkit | Permalink
We have the ability to look up achievements. I suggest a way to see progress towards new achievements. For example, there is an achievement for jumping 11,111 times. Isn't there somewhere where you can see how many times you have jumped, and your progress towards the next achievement? It would be cool to see all such stats.
Posted 13 months ago by puffsandberg | Permalink
This is really niche, but would it be at all possible to either vend or allow crafting of a loaded 12-sided dice? Maybe with limited uses per day...
Posted 13 months ago by Scoresby | Permalink
I would like to see a way to upload a list of streets to populate the guided route in-game ("GPS"). This would allow external sites to design "tours" or plot paths that maximized some feature or other.
It would also be useful to be able to find out the last time a player has been on a particular street (and if they've been there at all).
Posted 13 months ago by Janitch | Permalink
I'd love a search users by email feature (preferably one that could handle multiple emails at once). It would be great for finding Glitch Friends!
Foursquare has a simliar feature which has been useful for building apps.
Posted 13 months ago by Newtang | Permalink
This was kindof mentioned, but:
Wears and uses added to auction.list
Posted 13 months ago by NathanG | Permalink
Add under each skill in the skill.listall a list of skills that have the listed skill as a requirement (needed for).
I've found a way of building off the API in the .net framework... not very good code, but It might be useful. I've posted it on the forum.
Posted 13 months ago by lahutchi | Permalink
I would love to see something like auction.priceCheck by tsid or class_tsid that comes back with some vital stats about that specific type of item. I've coded this myself using auction.list but it seriously hurts my feelings to have to wait 5 to 10 seconds for a full auction list so I can figure out the info for myself. (Just as a defense, the 5-10 seconds was before I added category to my query.)
Stats I calculate for matching auctions: Total number of matching auctions, Total number of actual matching items those auctions represent, Total item cost of those matching items, Average cost per item, Lowest cost per item, Highest cost per item.
If that's not reasonable then a mode of auction.list that lets you query just a single specific item (instead of category) would be perfect so I don't have to ask for everything to do it.
Posted 13 months ago by Nerd of Epic | Permalink
Would be great to be able to donate items to giants along with checking favor points (which I see that the latter is already in the list) :)
Posted 13 months ago by grelca | Permalink
Due to recent changes to the auction system involving actually mailing your expired auction items back to you (which is really very painful) I would love to see:
- mail.inbox (list mail records [mail tsid, sender, subject, message], defs=1 to get stats about the attachments [full item record, including automatically item_defs], requires read scope.)
- mail.takeAttachment (for taking an attached item off of a message and putting it into your inventory based on mail tsid, requires write scope. possible errors: inventory_full, no_attachment)
- mail.delete (for deleting an item that has no attachments anymore by mail tsid, requires write scope.)
For obvious security and spam related issues I also simultaneously request that mail.send or similar NEVER be opened to the API.
Posted 13 months ago by Nerd of Epic | Permalink
Could we have an API method which allowed new phrases to be uploaded to our garden gnomes? That would allow us to do an automated "quote of the day" thing from an external DB of quotes.
Posted 13 months ago by Janitch | Permalink
Show all locations visited/unvisited? This would be nice but looks more like a gm script, right?
Posted 13 months ago by Mr. Eh | Permalink
Mr Eh, you could accomplish that with "Number of visits and last visited, through identity scope added to locations.streetinfo" which is already on the list above (once it's implemented, obviously) :) And yes, there's already a few gm scripts that will activate on the /locations page and via ajax can come back and highlight which streets you have/havent already been to.
Posted 13 months ago by Chuck Stone | Permalink
It'd be very handy if item defs (in auctions, say) reported the fact that certain items weren't vendorable.
Posted 12 months ago by Yarrow | Permalink
An extension/app that tells you what you need to do in order to get an achievement (ie; if it was the "Able Chopper" achievement and you had already made 9 of the recipes, it would say "2 more recipes needed"). I'm not sure how difficult it would be, but it would be a really useful addition. Thank you!
Posted 12 months ago by Veia | Permalink
An extension/app that tells you what you need to do in order to get an achievement (ie; if it was the "Able Chopper" achievement and you had already made 9 of the recipes, it would say "2 more recipes needed"). I'm not sure how difficult it would be, but it would be a really useful addition. Thank you!
Posted 12 months ago by Veia | Permalink
global coordinates for locations.streetInfo so a map can be built, and math can be done for pathfinding and nearest-to-thing queries. Just a simple lat/long of intersections or shape coordinates of streets. I tried adding it to my own data-copy, by sort of reverse-engineering intersections, but it would be cool if it was included in the API.
Posted 11 months ago by konsumer | Permalink
we need a feature that lets us gather an authenticated players specific achievement information, like how many X they have done out of the required XX for a specific achievement.
Posted 11 months ago by OHNOSCHQUIDS | Permalink
I was just wondering if there were expected dates for any of these features yet. I Can't wait to play with some of them!
Posted 10 months ago by BusError | Permalink
Add the Photos to the API. This would be nice :D
Posted 8 months ago by Princess Sarah | Permalink
would really like to have access to neighbors on home streets!
Posted 7 months ago by grelca | Permalink
Could we please have player streets added to the streets API? That would be really useful.
Posted 7 months ago by Qwartz | Permalink
I would love to be able to re-arrange and add/delete street signs for one's street via an api call. This would make it possible to do advanced re-routing for resource routes based on resource availability or glitch-load.
Posted 6 months ago by Azaradel | Permalink
friends.list is a new method that returns a list of your friends. friends.add and friends.remove do what you would expect, too.
(Staff reply)
Posted 5 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
@Bees!: Is it too much to ask if friends.list can take a parameter like location = 1, and when the parameter is specified, to return the is_online and location property (like in players.fullInfo)?
It will save a real big bunch of api calls when checking which of your friends are online...
pretty=1 please?
Posted 5 months ago by ping | Permalink
I'm looking for a simple and fast way to get details about an achievement.
With achievements.listAll, it seems to take a bunch of extra loading time and object processing for the whole.
We have skills.getInfo for skills, so how about an achievements.getinfo equivalent?
Posted 5 months ago by Lemo | Permalink
New methods:
* achievements.listAllCategories
* achievements.listAllInCategory
* achievements.getInfo
All 3 methods return state information when the caller is authed. We don't yet have a way to return progress towards an achievement, but will be able to add that some time in the future.
(Staff reply)
Posted 5 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
nifty :]
that listAllCategories with auth sounds pretty effective for player profiling
good idea to add the series as well!
just one thing, achievements.getInfo seems to return only false "got" states for me
Posted 5 months ago by Lemo | Permalink
Oops! Fixed now :)
(Staff reply)
Posted 5 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
In the original post, it mentions players.achievements as one of the implemented methods but I do not see it listed here: http://developer.glitch.com/api/
Also this doesn't work: http://api.glitch.com/simple/players.achievements
It would be very helpful if this method was available to list all achievements a player has earned by looking up the player TSID. Thanks for your time!
Posted 5 months ago by TomC | Permalink
Huh, you're right. Not sure how I overlooked that. Consider it on my todo-list
In the meantime, you can use achievements.listAllInCategory to get the achievements earned within a single category.
(Staff reply)
Posted 5 months ago by Bees! | Permalink
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