Any news about a web API?

I'm a developer and I'd love to be able to hook in to some of the data stored on the Lodestone. There have been a couple of discussions about this, dating back to 2011:

• http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...service-access (May 2011)
• http://forum.square-enix.com/ffxiv/t...ilable-for-ARR (Jan 2013)

Currently if I wanted to make an application which allowed users to pull their in-game achievements, I'd have to:

1. Look up their character's ID by parsing the entire search results page and matching it against their world.
2. Parse the entire character page for the resulting character, pulling the achievements HTML.
3. Parse that into a usable format for my application to read.

This is highly inefficient and expensive for both my own application and the Lodestone server. It's also incredibly bad practice.

Can we get a web API for this simple information?