Public Data API - Revisiting the topic

Hey I think a few posts for this have gone up, but the one I saw was almost a year old so I thought I'd throw up another one.

My FC doesn't have a website, and I thought it might be cool to look into what is necessary to set one up. Some cooler ideas would be things like, "most popular minion/mount", "character birthday calendar", "top characters by stat" (like spell speed, I am just spitballing at this point).

Obviously this could be achieved with a simple JSON API. Submit a get request to the lodestone API, get a JSON object with this data back. It looks like some sort of service like this existed before March (https://github.com/viion/lodestone-nodejs), but no longer.

If Square is concerned about DDoS and/or traffic, they could set up a developer key system linked to individual player accounts (like how google does it) with settable request limits and throttling, and pricing for high volume usage.

I am one of the people who have asked about doing something like this in the past.

Being a person who does a lot of the work to help with my Free Company's website, something like this would be AMAZING!!!

I've been asked to see if I can get a list of all our members on our site, but all the things I've seen that could pull the information don't work anymore.

I think this is a great idea and I like your idea about the developer keys for DDoS/abuse.